Former California State University, Bakersfield assistant basketball coach Kevin Mays has taken a plea deal in his pimping and child pornography case.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mays pleaded no contest to pimping, possession of child pornography and possession of a controlled substance with a firearm on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Driving the news: Mays was arrested last year after an anonymous tipper accused the former coach of sex trafficking and possessing child pornography.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The tipster made the allegations to former CSUB Head Basketball Coach Rob Barnes, claiming that Mays trafficked a woman throughout California, Washington, Oregon and Nevada.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Flashback: Mays appeared in court in March for a two-day hearing that preceded a potential trial.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Eight people testified in the hearing, leading Judge Eric Bradshaw to order a trial at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Prosecutors had accused Mays of possessing more than 600 images of child pornography and over having two dozen videos on his phone that depicted sexual conduct with a minor.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A Sacramento Police Department detective also testified in the hearing that Mays paid for hotels and flights for a woman that he was pimping out.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Zoom in: Prosecutors dropped eight of the charges as part of the plea deal, leaving the pimping, possession of child pornography and possession of a controlled substance with a firearm charges in place for Mays\u2019 no contest plea.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What we\u2019re watching: Mays will return to court on July 30 to be sentenced.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mays is facing four years in prison and will have to register as a sex offender for life.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former California State University, Bakersfield assistant basketball coach Kevin Mays has taken a plea deal in his pimping…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-382685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382685","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=382685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}