Band booster accused of $22,000 theft

COLUMBUS - A Columbus man has been charged with stealing more than 22-thousand dollars from the coffers of a high school band booster association. <br> <br> Forty-four-year-old Robert Bowden Junior was the subject of a three-month investigation over the finances of the Shaw High School marching band. <br> <br> The alleged thefts occurred between December 1999 and May of last year. <br> <br> The high school&#39;s marching band&#39;s fund-raising effort last year fell some 16-thousand dollars short of its efforts to raise money to send all 107 band members on a trip to Washington. <br> <br> Bowden was released from the Muscogee County Jail on bond.