Former Pop Warner Official Gets 27-Month Term in Embezzlement

By Karen Wall

A Jackson man who served as a director of the Eastern Region of the Pop Warner Little Scholars program has been sentenced in U.S. District Court in Trenton to 27 months in prison, after he pleaded guilty to embezzling $560,000 from the nonprofit organization.

David Marshall, 58, who pleaded guilty in January, also must pay restitution for the amount he stole and be under supervised probation for three years after he completes his jail sentence, according to an article on www.app.com.

Marshall served as a regional director of the group and from 2006 to 2011 had access to the organization’s bank accounts and credit cards, according to the article.

The Eastern Region of Pop Warner includes the New Jersey Shore Pop Warner Conference, which until 2011 was known as the Jersey Shore Pop Warner Conference and included almost all towns in Monmouth and Ocean counties. A split occurred in 2011 and a number of the teams left Pop Warner to join the American Youth Football League.