UNM Police Chief Kevin McCabe issued a statement Wednesday afternoon saying its department considers threats to Lobo basketball sophomore guard Cullen Neal to be “of a serious nature” and consistent with how Neal’s father, UNM coach Craig Neal, “characterized them to the media and police.”
Craig Neal last Thursday at a news conference said that Cullen had been the target of death threats, but he has declined to elaborate when asked to do so by the Journal.
The UNM police statement did not address a Journal story published Wednesday in which a UNM police investigator said Craig Neal did not mention death threats in a meeting with police and UNM officials on Sunday.