Dad of accused MSU player faces similar rap
The father of the MSU football player accused in the $158,000 laptop theft ring is facing similar charges in Ann Arbor.
Dion Sims? father, Donald Lewis Sims Jr., the former business administrator at the University of Michigan?s Center for Afro American and African Studies, is facing four felony embezzlement charges. He?s accused of using U-M money to purchase $74,000 worth of computers and computer-related equipment, and for making $14,000 in other fraudulent purchases.
Diane Brown, spokeswoman for the University of Michigan police, said this afternoon that the father was arrested and arraigned in June and faces an upcoming court date on the charges. She said he purchased at least 75 computers and 14 computer-related items ? items for which the university was not reimbursed. The purchases happened between 2008 and 2010.
?He was essentially in a position to be able to purchase laptops or computers and they were used for his own personal purposes,? Brown said.