A former official with the N.C. State University women’s basketball team is under criminal investigation following allegations that he may have pocketed a little more than $1,000 that should have gone to the team’s bus driver.
Campus police launched their investigation into Michael John Murray, director of operations for women’s basketball, last month after Karla Leneice Crockett, a team bus driver, discovered that she should have been receiving tips from him.
“Mike is no longer on our staff,” Fred Demarest, N.C. State’s senior associate athletic director, said Friday afternoon.
Crockett works for Academy Bus LLC, a private company contracted by the athletic program to provide transportation services for the basketball team.