"Real World" Star Assaulted A Horse

SEPTEMBER 8--Meet Landon Lueck. The 25-year-old is one of the seven "stars" of the new season of MTV's "Real World," the fifteenth installment of which premiered last night. If form holds, the new houseguests--living together in a fancy Philadelphia crib--will frequently squabble, have sex, and drink, drink, drink. As such, we're looking for big things from Lueck, who actually pleaded guilty last year to assaulting a police horse following a drunken outing at a college football game in Wisconsin. According to a misdemeanor criminal complaint, an intoxicated and "extremely belligerent" Lueck was told that he would have to leave a University of Wisconsin-Penn State game. When he refused to leave, a mounted cop "attempted to guide Mr. Lueck away from the area." Lueck responded by grabbing the animal's neck and trying to push it away. When the cop tried to again nudge him along, Lueck "continued to push back at the horse and refused to leave." He was then arrested and charged with "harassment of police animal." Lueck also posed for the below mug shot snapped by the Dane County Sheriff's Office. Though the count carried a maximum of nine months in prison and a $10,000 fine, Lueck was placed in a "deferred prosecution/first offender program" after pleading guilty last March. He successfully completed that initiative last October, and a circuit court judge agreed to a prosecution request to expunge Lueck's case. (3 pages)