A man arrested earlier this month by Gainesville Police on charges that he scammed the families of college football hopefuls out of thousands of dollars says he did nothing wrong. Police charged Malcom Walker with theft by deception.
“Our Warrant Service Unit picked him up at the Gwinnett County Jail, and he was booked here on the Gainesville Police Department charge of theft by deception…on March 3,” Derreck Booth said Tuesday. “It looks like he made ($1,300) bond here but was immediately released to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office on March 4. That agency had placed a ‘hold’ on him.”
In a social media post a few days ago, Walker wrote “”There are specifics that coaches and organizations look for and your child may not be that one that they are in search of but that doesn’t mean stop trying other opportunities for your child and that definitely doesn’t mean that it’s my fault that whatever dreams we may have wanted to come through, sometimes fail.”
Walker was allegedly posing as someone who could get high school athletes meetings with college recruiters and coaches.