MERCER, Pa. - Mercer Borough police said charges are likely, pending an investigation, against a football booster accused of giving high school football players a liquid substance meant to enhance oxygen use before a game earlier this month.

Investigators believe more than a dozen athletes took the substance, which caused some players to vomit during the game, according to Chief Robert Davis.

Police allege that Mercer Area football booster club president Mike Davis entered the boys’ locker room on Sept. 5 before the team’s away game at Reynolds High School and handed out methylene blue, a bright blue liquid.

According to a letter sent to parents by Superintendent Ronald Rowe, the substance was “administered with an eyedropper into water bottles.”

Davis told 21 News that methylene blue

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