Former bookstore director gets 5-year prison term for stealing from Missouri State University

The former director of the campus bookstore at Missouri State University in Springfield has been sentenced to serve five years and three months in prison for stealing more than $1 million. The Springfield News-Leader says Mark Brixey must make restitution of $1,329,484 to the university, its insurance carrier and to the Internal Revenue Service. Brixey began working at the bookstore in the 1980s as a student. He graduated in 1989, was hired full time in January 1991 and became a supervisor in 1993. He was promoted to director in October 2000. The theft was discovered last year.