The shelter has filed a police report and is now asking for volunteer help and financial donations.
MUSKEGON, Mich. — Staff at the Muskegon Humane Society are in shock after nearly $10,000 went missing from their bank account after a check was stolen and altered.
“I just kept saying it’s got to be an error,” says executive director Alexis Robertson. “There’s no way that someone would do that to us.”
Robertson pays the shelter’s bills monthly through an online service.
“So the checks get cut right from the bank and are mailed to our payees,” she says.
Last week, she made an $80 payment to a local disposal company. When she looked at the bank statement a few days later, the check had not only been cashed, but severely altered.
“Changed from an $80 disposal fee to a $9,980 disposal fee,” says Robertson.
That money is part of the shelter’s budget for feeding and caring for the currently more …