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Ex-Suns Staffer Pleads Guilty to Illicitly Selling Team Tickets

A former Suns ticket manager has pleaded guilty to illicitly selling more than 2,800 of the team’s tickets through a third-party vendor from 2017 to 2019, according to a plea agreement filed in Maricopa County Superior Court.

Jeffrey Marcussen, who worked for the Suns from 2004 to 2019, has agreed to pay $458,218 to the team in restitution, according to court records acquired by ESPN. He must also pay $1,780 to the Arizona Attorney General’s anti-racketeering fund and $11,818 to the Arizona Department of Revenue.

Marcussen, 44, is scheduled to be sentenced on June 7 on felony fraud and theft charges.