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Former Suns ticket office boss gets jail time and a hefty fine

A former boss in the ticket office of the Phoenix Suns has been sentenced to a year in jail.

Plus he has to pay nearly a half-million dollars in restitution and back taxes.

Authorities say from 2017 to 2019, Jeffrey Marcussen sold unused Suns tickets online and pocketed the cash. Marcussen was a Suns employee for more than 15 years.

He pleaded guilty last spring to charges of fraud and theft.

Matthew Casey has won Edward R. Murrow awards for hard news and sports reporting since he joined KJZZ as a senior field correspondent in 2015.