Youth coach arrested

A youth basketball coach and director of a basketball camp held at Portland State every summer was arrested on allegations of sexual abuse and burglary on Nov. 12.

Milwaukie police picked up Thara Kumbeno Memory, 32, on accusations of unlawful sexual penetration, sex abuse and burglary made by a woman unrelated to his coaching duties, according to a story run yesterday in The Oregonian.

Memory, who runs the Hoop Dreams Basketball organization and a camp director at the annual Ime Udoka Basketball Camp at Portland State for children and teens is being held in Clackamas County Jail on $250,000 bail. The Portland man’s previous convictions include driving under the influence of intoxicants, criminal mischief in the third degree and possession of less than an ounce of marijuana.

He is also coach of the I-5 Elite, a 17-and-under Amateur Athletic Union basketball team. Ime Udoka, a NBA basketball player for the Sacramento Kings and Memory’s friend, sponsors the team, according to The Oregonian.

Memory also leads varsity girls and boys, junior varsity and Hoop Stars workouts five days a week at the River Place Athletic Club in Portland.