Former college basketball coach accused of leading double life as pimp across four states: report

A former college basketball coach was on the sidelines by day and allegedly a pimp by night.

Kevin Mays was an assistant coach at Cal State Bakersfield when university police began investigating in August after the team’s then-head coach, Rod Barnes, received a tip by email.

The email, which was a "first warning and a final warning," identified a woman Mays had allegedly trafficked for months.

"FIX IT OR THE WHOLE STAFF WILL FALL," the tipster wrote in the email. Its subject line read, "IMPORTANT MESSAGE 911 911."

Barnes then reported it to human resources, which then sent it to university police.

The tipster said Mays had been operating in Las Vegas, Oregon, Washington, and California. ESPN reported the tipster knew both the alleged victim and Barnes through travel for sex work.

The alleged victim posted an advertisement in Sacramento, stating she was willing to be anything from "arm candy" for a party to a "no strings attached girlfriend." She charged $300 for a half hour and $500 for a full 60 minutes. Police ran a sting operation in September by scheduling a "date" with the alleged victim in a hotel room that Mays rented out.

In an interview with police after the operation, she referred to Mays as her "boyfriend" who "routinely" paid for her travel accommodations.

None of Mays' alleged victims are Cal State Bakersfield students or staff, ESPN noted. However, police reports cited by the outlet states that Mays purchased a rental car that was used for alleged trafficking through a university account.

Mays has now been hit with 11 charges, including pimping, possession of automatic firearms and high-capacity magazines, possession of methamphetamine and marijuana with intent to sell, and child pornography charges. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for March 13 after being delayed nearly five months, and he has pleaded not guilty.

Mays played for the school from 2014 through 2016, playing in the 2016 March Madness tournament.

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Progressive firebrand concedes in cliffhanger North Carolina congressional primary battle with incumbent Dem

Progressive Durham County Commissioner Nida Allam conceded Wednesday after challenging U.S. Rep. Valerie Foushee in a high-profile, razor-thin North Carolina congressional 4th District Democratic primary race.

In a fiery statement posted to social media, Allam accused Democrats of "caving to corporate Super PACs and warmongering lobbies," claiming it was only because of her campaign that Foushee, 69, decided to take "bold stances that voters overwhelmingly support."

Among Allam's provocative stances were labeling the Gaza war "genocide," abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and defunding the war with Iran.

"We must demand [Foushee] not spend a single taxpayer dollar on forever wars," Allam wrote. "We must demand she actually call the genocide in Gaza what it is: a genocide. We must demand she fight to abolish ICE as they kidnap and murder our neighbors, not just take away their face masks and some of their funding."

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The 32-year-old, who first ran against Foushee in 2022, went on to describe the present climate as "a time of rising Islamophobia, xenophobia, and derision that have meant to divide our communities against each other," saying the movement she created points to "a brighter future we could believe in."

Foushee scored 49.2% of the Democratic vote and Allam secured 48.2%, with 99% of the expected vote tallied, NBC News reported.

Compared to the 2022 primary, Allam said her campaign drove a 55% increase in turnout for voters under 40 during early voting, and an overall increase in total turnout of almost 40%. More than 60,000 voters turned out to vote for her campaign.

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"While we may not have won this race, the establishment should stay on watch," she wrote. "Our movement sounded the alarm for future Democratic primaries throughout this cycle."

"For every person who has never seen themselves in our political system, I want you to see that if a young, Muslim, immigrant woman in the South — who is willing to take on the establishment directly — can achieve what our campaign was able to and more, then anything is possible," Allam continued.

Allam entered the Democratic primary for North Carolina's deep-blue congressional 4th District with endorsements from Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and progressive groups including the Justice Democrats, Leaders We Deserve, Sunrise Movement, Indian American Impact and the Working Families Party.

Leaders We Deserve has led a nationwide effort to elect young, progressive candidates to Congress and statewide legislatures, endorsing other Democrats, including New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Foushee, who garnered support from North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein, former Gov. Roy Cooper and a slew of representatives, received more than $1.6 million from Jobs and Democracy PAC — a super PAC pushing for AI regulation.

Allam received nearly $2 million in support from Leaders We Deserve, Justice Democrats, the Working Families Party and the American Priorities PAC, according to the report.

Fox News Digital's Deirdre Heavey contributed to this report.

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