By Eric Mathison

When former Highline Stadium substitute manager Jayson Boehm is sentenced Friday, July 22 most of the focus will be on the four counts of unlicensed practice of medicine and forgery of forms to make it appear a physician signed them.

But members of the Evergreen High Booster Club also want attention paid to the first-degree theft charges.
Boehm pleaded guilty to the charges, including theft on June 9. His sentencing hearing is set for July 22 at 10:30 a.m. in King County Superior Court Judge John Erlick’s Kent courtroom.

According to investigating detectives, Boehm stole more than $100,000. That includes about $82,000 from the booster club and $18,000 from the Highline School District.

Boehm served as unpaid assistant treasurer and treasurer of the booster club for about four years. The club, with about 20 members, holds fundraisers to support athletic teams on the Evergreen campus in White Center.
According to the presentencing statement from the King County Prosecutor’s Office, Boehm resisted efforts by booster club president Richard Parker to give an accounting of the club’s funds.

When Boehm was fired by the school district in April 2010, he resigned as treasurer. When a new treasurer was selected an audit was conducted. According to detectives, Boehm had stolen about $41,000 from the club’s BECU account and another $41,000 from a Watermark Credit Union account.

Boehm also was hired as a substitute stadium manager at Highline Memorial Field in September 2009. His responsibilities included collecting and depositing funds from ticket sales for various events.

During his tenure, there seemed to be a sharp decrease in ticket sales though other employees told investigators they had not seen a noticeable downturn in event attendance.

District auditors estimated the loss of potential funds at about $18,000.

In an email to the Times/News, booster club members wrote that without the theft charge, Boehm would have opted to go on trial on the other charges. The theft charge was used as leverage to get Boehm to plead out to a shorter sentence, according to club members.

The members said they wanted to focus on the theft charge “because that shows what type of guy he really is.
“We don’t want him to be released from jail in 14 months and go back to handling other people’s money,” they wrote.

The maximum sentence for Boehm would be 14 months in prison.
Most of the public’s attention has been on the other charges.

He was charged with giving physical exams to about two-dozen male and female students without the proper license.

He also pleaded guilty to falsifying forms to make it appear they were signed by a physician.

The offenses came to light after a school nurse reported to her supervisor that Boehm had provided a medical excuse for a student.

At about the same time, sheriff’s detectives notified the district that Boehm was being investigated for improperly touching a boxer at a non-school event at Evergreen.