Posted on 12/13/2005 12:46:10 PM PST by Paved Paradise
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - As Lehigh University students prepared for final exams this week, they found themselves grappling with the news that the sophomore class president had been arrested for allegedly robbing a bank. "I didn't believe it when I first heard it," Kathryn Susman, an 18- year-old freshman engineering student from Hereford, Md., said Monday.
The robbery occurred Friday afternoon. Authorities said Greg Hogan, 19, handed a note to a teller at a Wachovia Bank branch, saying he had a gun and wanted money.
Hogan, the son of a Baptist minister, was picked up at his fraternity house later that evening and charged with robbery, theft by unlawful taking and receiving stolen property.
Police said he got away with $2,871.
One of his frat brothers, Patrick Thornton, described Hogan as "very energetic," the sort of student who would cheer on the college football team wearing body paint.
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Heh... when I was a kid, the biggest rebels in the group were the preacher's kids...
This is varsity bad though ;~D
Yeah - there are a lot of jokes about that but I really would like to know how they can afford to live in Hunting Valley. One rarely sees homes for sale there for under $1M and many are even way more. That's where I'm perplexed. That church is not a mega church. You just wonder. I don't have a problem with a preacher earning a good or even great salary but it seemed odd to me, that's all.
the Lord helps those who help themselves?
I'm not familiar at all with the area, but even in wealthy areas, there are ranges of homes, and those that were purchased before the latest housing bubble.
Maybe they inherited wealth.
I don't think they live in HV, they probably live closer to the fathers church in Barberton.
As for how they could afford to send him to US, any number of possibilities.
This reminds me of the book "The Preacher's Son" - a true case similar to Laci Peterson's.
Photo of the perp here: http://www.lehigh.edu/%7Eclass08/officers.html
Hmm. . . . Perhaps you have discovered the motive.
Seriously, this must be hell on his family.
One could infer from the article that the son moonlights at the bank. Not that there's anything wrong with that...
We had a college student return for Thanksgiving and set fire to a couple of beautiful homes in the middle of the night .He also torched a couple of vehicles in the Chester County Pa. neighborhood
He is from a well known area family. The police went to his college in Maryland and arrested him. The families were at home when he set fire to these homes. He admitted it.
There were no fire hydrants and tanker trucks and farm ponds
had to be utilized. The people were very fortunate.
If the church is in Hunting Valley, the pastor and his family perhaps live in a house there that is owned by the church. That's what the Protestant ministers in the town where I grew up did: as long as they were associated with a church in that town, they lived in a house that church owned and earmarked for the pastor's family.
I read somewhere else the family lived in Hudson...which is a well-to-do city in its own right...but not Hunting Valley, of course.
this is interesting.
Normally, when some college-age kid commits a crime, his parent's occupation is rarely in the title. I can't recall ever seeing:
"Car Wash Attendant's Son Carjacks Elderly Woman"
"Welfare Queen's Daughter Assaults Police Officer"
"K-Mart Customer Service Clerk's Son Involved in DUI"
Interesting that the media seems to go out of it's way to acknowledge that the boy was not only the son of a preacher, but a Baptist preacher.
Just strikes me as odd.
Let me guess: this, too, is Darwins fault.
"The only man who could ever rob me, was a son of a preacher man!"
To your point, even in Hudson there are homes that can be had for $150,000 or less. You just have to know where to look.
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