\u26a0\ufe0f Councilman accused of stealing from local youth sports league\u27a1\ufe0f Bruce Darrow charged with third-degree theft after a decade of embezzlement\ud83d\udd34 Ongoing trend of theft cases linked to New Jersey youth sports groups<\/p>\n
An elected councilman in Camden County is accused of stealing from a youth sports league he was in charge of.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Bruce Darrow was charged by Gloucester City Police with third-degree theft.<\/p>\n
Allegations of long-term embezzlement<\/p>\n
Investigators say Darrow stole more than $6,000 from the Carmen Palmiero Basketball League over a decade through this past March, while he served as the league\u2019s president.<\/p>\n
He has been the boys\u2019 basketball travel coach for the last 26 years.<\/p>\n
Darrow’s political background and community ties<\/p>\n
Darrow, a Democrat, has been serving his first term on the Brooklawn Borough Council since 2024.<\/p>\n
He was previously involved in both the local planning\/zoning board and Brooklawn\u2019s Board of Education, of which he was president for 15 years.<\/p>\n
Darrow has lived most of his life in Brooklawn \u2014 he and his wife raised five children in the community.<\/p>\n
Elected NJ local councilman faces theft charge from youth sports league<\/p>\n
Brooklawn is just south of Gloucester City in Camden County (Google Maps)Broader context of theft from youth sports in New Jersey<\/p>\n
There have been a number of other New Jersey cases involving adults accused of stealing from youth sports groups.<\/p>\n
In 2023, a couple who served as president and field director of the Old Bridge Soccer League were charged with stealing <\/a>over $91,000 from the league, accused of using some of those funds to take a trip to Disney World.<\/p>\n Charges against the husband were dismissed while the wife was convicted of second-degree theft and ordered to payback roughly $88,000 to the league in 2024, MyCentralJersey reported.<\/a><\/p>\n Report a correction<\/a> \ud83d\udc48 | \ud83d\udc49 Contact our newsroom<\/a><\/p>\n Share of your tax bill going to schools vs. municipality<\/p>\n How your property tax bill is split up depends on where you live. This is the data from the state for the year 2025. <\/p>\n Gallery Credit: New Jersey 101.5<\/p>\n NJ towns paying the most taxes for public schools<\/p>\n The 20 towns with the most expensive school tax portion of their average property tax bills. Listed in ascending order. This is 2025 data from the state Department of Community Affairs. <\/p>\n Gallery Credit: New Jersey 101.5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u26a0\ufe0f Councilman accused of stealing from local youth sports league\u27a1\ufe0f Bruce Darrow charged with third-degree theft after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[43873,69,71,70,22960],"class_list":["post-200071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-new-jersey-news","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-ultimate-new-jersey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}