Fans of the Douglas County High School football team cheered the Panthers on to a .500 record this year. But off the field is where the team and its supporters may have suffered a real loss.
Douglasville police said thousands of dollars are missing from the coffers of the Douglas County High School Football Booster Club. Many parents said they are shocked.
"I think they need to find out who took the money. That is wrong. If you raised the money, the money should be there regardless," said D Day, a parent with a child at the school.
Players said the team can't survive without the club.
"This year the booster club got us a new speed track machine, some new jersey's, some nice stuff. If the booster club is getting messed with, that could hurt the football team a lot," said Will Gay, a player on the football team.
The booster club is a nonprofit organization that has no official connection to the school or school district. The principal at the high school said she was surprised to hear about the problem.
"Some of the booster club members came to me earlier this year and said they thought there was some irregularities in the accounting. I advised them to make a police report," said Connie Craft, the principal at Douglas County High School.
Douglasville police said between $3,500 and $5,000 is missing. Detectives said they are checking bank records to see what happened to the money.
The team's supporters want something to be done.
"That is money that has been raised. It's like a charity. You are taking away from our kids," said Day.
"That means we got robbed. We raised all that money. That is all our hard work getting stolen from us," said Gay.
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