CAMAS, Wash. -- The former president of a local youth football league made his first court appearance on theft charges Thursday.

Detectives said they think he stole more than $10,000 from the organization.

The husband and father from Camas helped to start the football league, but when he left his post as president, the books didn't add up and that's when police began investigating him.

Scott Short, 38 made his first appearance in Clark County Court Thursday on theft charges.

Police arrested him this week after an investigation of team bank accounts from the East County Jets -- a youth football league in Camas and Washougal.

Officials said after Short resigned as president last year, he kept putting off giving board members access to the league's bank accounts.

Finally, it came out that more than $11,000 in registration fees was missing.

Since then, Short has taken out a loan to repay the league and that's why his relatives feel this whole case is out of line.

"You know he built that organization from the ground up. You'd think they'd think about that, too. I know what he did was wrong, but you think they'd think about that too before they humiliated his whole family," Short's sister Collette Monks said.

Short has been released from jail, but he will be back in court in early October.

Ex-Football President Faces Theft Charges