A former Tennessee basketball coach has been sentenced to prison for transporting a minor for sexual activity in Mississippi.

According to an announcement by the U.S. Attorney’s Office Northern District of Mississippi, Andreus Shannon was sentenced to 12 years in prison for traveling an interstate commerce to engage in sexual activity with a minor under 16 years old and later stalking the minor after she turned 18.

Court documents show Shannon, 44, was a basketball coach for a Memphis area homeschool association. He used the position to groom the parents and a minor female basketball player until he was trusted to drive the player to practices and scrimmages in Mississippi and Tennessee.

“Over several years, Shannon sexually exploited the minor at his home in Memphis, Tennessee, gyms ac

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