Welcome to Arrest Stories. A former Cal State Bakersfield basketball assistant coach was arrested on charges of pimping and weapons violations after an anonymous tip exposed an alleged multi-state operation. Here's what may have happened.
On August fourteenth, twenty twenty-five, Kevin Mays was taken into custody in Bakersfield, California, facing charges of pimping, possession of automatic firearms, and possession of marijuana with intent to sell. Mays is being held without bail.
The investigation began when an anonymous tipster sent an email titled "IMPORTANT MESSAGE nine one one nine one one" to head coach Rod Barnes on August twenty-ninth. The message stated "HE IS TRAFFICKING A GIRL BY THE NAME OF redacted HE HAS BEEN TRAFFICKING THIS GIRL SINCE MAY" and warned "FIX IT OR THE WHOLE STAFF WILL FALL."
According to police reports, a sex worker advertised on social media as willing to be "arm candy" for a party to a "no strings attached girlfriend," charging three hundred dollars for thirty minutes and five hundred dollars for sixty minutes. Police conducted a sting operation in September, arranging to meet the victim in a hotel room that Mays had rented.
During the police interview following the operation, the victim referred to Mays as her boyfriend. Investigators discovered that Mays had paid for the victim's travel accommodations across Oregon, Washington, Nevada, and California, allegedly operating as a pimp across these four states.
The anonymous tipster claimed to know both the alleged victim and Mays through previous travel for sex work. The tipster stated that Mays identified himself as a professional gambler and allegedly threatened to take away the tipster's child if the person exposed his activities.
Mays was a former Cal State Bakersfield athlete from two thousand fourteen to two thousand sixteen and had been working as a temporary coaching assistant earning three thousand dollars per month since June.
Cal State Bakersfield officials stated "When CSU Bakersfield received an anonymous report in August of twenty twenty-five that a member of our coaching staff was engaged in human trafficking, we took immediate action in notifying university police and the Bakersfield Police Department. Both agencies launched investigations that resulted in an arrest within days."
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