{"id":418176,"date":"2026-07-30T16:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T16:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/418176\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T16:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T16:19:10","slug":"former-csub-basketball-assistant-coach-sentenced-to-4-years-in-high-profile-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/418176\/","title":{"rendered":"Former CSUB basketball assistant coach sentenced to 4 years in high-profile case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Kevin Mays, the former assistant basketball coach at California State University, Bakersfield, was sentenced to four years in a pimping and child pornography case Thursday morning. <\/p>\n<p>Mays was sentenced to four years plus restitution and court fees. Mays will also have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life as a result of being convicted of possession of child pornography.<\/p>\n<p>Mays received 660 days credit towards his sentence for time served during court proceedings and good behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Mays was arrested in September of 2025 and arraigned on charges of pimping, pandering, possession of assault weapons, and drug possession, according to court records. <\/p>\n<p>Just days later, Mays was also arraigned on charges of possession of child pornography.<\/p>\n<p>Mays took a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.turnto23.com\/news\/in-your-neighborhood\/bakersfield\/former-csub-basketball-assistant-coach-kevin-mays-takes-plea-deal-in-pimping-and-child-pornography-case\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">plea deal on July 1<\/a> where he pled no contest to pimping, possession of child or youth pornography, and possession of a controlled substance with a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available. <\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Kevin Mays, the former assistant basketball coach at California State University, Bakersfield, was sentenced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[167297,1052,151,155,153,152,26207,26595,90639,23326,14631,2897],"class_list":["post-418176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-4-year","tag-attorney","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-downtown","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-child-pornography","tag-csub","tag-david-a-torres","tag-kevin-mays","tag-plea-deal","tag-sentencing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418176","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=418176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}