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A coach and former player for a Cal State men\u2019s basketball team is facing numerous charges after he allegedly trafficked a woman across state lines and possessed guns, drugs and child pornography.<\/p>\n
After an anonymous allegation was made in an email to Cal State Bakersfield head coach Rod Barnes, an investigation resulted in the arrest of Kevin Mays, who now faces 11 charges, as detailed by Shwetha Surendran of ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Those allegations include pimping, possession of automatic firearms and possession of methamphetamine with intent to sell.<\/p>\n \u201cSeparate charges cited him for possession of more than 600 images of youth or child pornography and distribution of obscene matter involving someone under 18 years old,\u201d Surendran explained.<\/p>\n The fallout from the scandal resulted in Barnes and athletic director Kyle Conder leaving their positions.<\/p>\n Mar 17, 2016; Oklahoma City, OK, USA; Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners forward Kevin Mays (10) speaks to the media during a practice day before the first round of the NCAA men\u2019s college basketball tournament at Chesapeake Energy Arena. Mandatory Credit: Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n Mays has pleaded not guilty to all charges, and his attorney declined to comment when reached by ESPN.<\/p>\n School spokesperson Jennifer Self said that the allegations don\u2019t involve a student, but they\u2019re still \u201cdeeply concerning.\u201d<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Self added that they\u2019ve used the incident as an opportunity to educate those on campus about human trafficking.<\/p>\n \u201cWe also viewed this moment as an opportunity to take a broader look at our athletic program,\u201d\u00a0including \u201cstructural and administrative changes,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n The post Cal State Basketball Coach Was Pimp, Prosecutors Say<\/a> appeared first on LA Sports Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A coach and former player for a Cal State men\u2019s basketball team is facing numerous charges after he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,1820,9930,23326,95515,23327,95514],"class_list":{"0":"post-207010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news","11":"tag-cal-state","12":"tag-cal-state-bakersfield","13":"tag-kevin-mays","14":"tag-possession-of-methamphetamine","15":"tag-rod-barnes","16":"tag-shwetha-surendran"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Mar](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6586064894f24f183405dc9341516f58.jpeg\"\/)
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