The report was prepared by a private investigator hired by McNeese State. Bruchhaus resigned June 6 after assistant coach Jason Pope recanted earlier statements that he knew nothing of Bruchhaus' gambling. Bruchhaus denies the charges, which were first raised just before he was promoted from assistant coach in 1998. Police in Torremolinos, Spain, say British swimming coach Cecil Russell was one of four people arrested this week on charges of attempting to smuggle ecstasy tablets into the United States. Russell was picked up at the Olympic pool, where police say they seized 513 tablets of the drug hidden in ceramic figurines.
Police say the smugglers planned to mail the figurines to the United States.
Russell was banned for life from coaching in the U.S. and Canada in 1998 after he was accused of selling anabolic steroids. He's in Spain to train Russian swimmer Nina Jivanevskaia, now a Spanish resident. Jivanevskaia was said to be devastated by the arrest of her coach. The Spanish state news agency says the arrests were part of a crackdown on an ecstasy smuggling ring that sent the drug by mail from Spain and the Netherlands to the United States. He also insulted virtually every ethnic and social group in the interview, which netted him a fine, a suspension and some mandatory sensitivity training.