MGB: Breaking news -- Wesley arrested on theft charges

[Brett Vito]

MGB:

http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2014/12/breaking-news-greg-wesley-arrested-on-theft-charges.html/

[MeanGreenTexan]

Wow. Sad.

[GangGreen]

So is he gonna be able to play against SFA or what?

[oldguystudent]

Does this get Benford a contract extension since it's the players, not the coaching?

[Travis Scott]

wow. I hope the kid can get his stuff together.

[NT03]

Greg seems like a really good kid. I hope he learns from this

[foutsrouts]

Disappointing and sad. Someone needs to go bail him out and get the whole scoop. Hope he can get it together.

[CMJ]

Hoping he can get his life in order. I never was arrested or anything, but I think plenty of us did dumb as shit stuff at his age.

[THOR]

eh

[bstnsportsfan3]

So didn't last week Benford said he was still with and around the program, now the kid gets arrested and we act like he hasn't been with the program for a while? What is really going on here?

[FirefightnRick]

So didn't last week Benford said he was still with and around the program, now the kid gets arrested and we act like he hasn't been with the program for a while? What is really going on here?

Strange isn't it?

Rick

[Greendylan]

"'Greg hasn’t been with the program,' UNT coach Tony Benford said. 'He has been taking care of personal issues and is probably not going to be with our program going forward.'"

See, that wasn't so hard. All it took was a misdemeanor to encourage Benford to finally answer the question Vito has been asking for weeks.

[Green P1]

It is what it is.

[Brett Vito]

Updated:

http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2014/12/breaking-news-greg-wesley-arrested-on-theft-charges.html/

[greenminer]

Does Wesley need some parental support?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlE5s3zslaw

Edited December 10, 2014 by greenminer

[UNT90]

Lucky to not be charged with Robbery.

[meangreen15]

Greg seems like a really good kid.

Based on his track record, you wouldn't say this if he played for any other program in the country. He hasn't made grades and has routinely had off the court issues. Greg seems like he is a really troubled kid. I hope he can start to get his life together, but he needs to do that somewhere else.

[greenjoe]

College basketball players, rightly or wrongly, are minor celebrities in the city of the university. I wonder if they realize that as such, if they commit a crime that their name and picture will be published in the local newspaper ?

I was thinking if this were explained to them, their behavior might be better. Although they know stealing is stealing and they have known it since grade school. But the realization of a photo for mom and dad and grandma to see might restrain bad behavior.

GO MEAN GREEN

[foutsrouts]

Lucky to not be charged with Robbery.

Very true. When you steal something using force (his partner hitting the mall cop), it's usually worthy of a robbery charge. Lucky him. I guess.

[GMG24]

Wanna know what he was "issues he was dealing with off the court" sounds like you just found out.... "warrant for a previous theft charge" I am more than ready for Benford to move along.

[ChristopherRyanWilkes]

Very true. When you steal something using force (his partner hitting the mall cop), it's usually worthy of a robbery charge. Lucky him. I guess.

May have been no "bodily injury" which is a requirement of robbery.

[Rudy]

bodily injury or serious bodily injury probably would have resulted in an aggravated robbery. They likely shoved him or something of that nature.

[emmitt01]

May have been no "bodily injury" which is a requirement of robbery.

This was a robbery, plain and simple. Bodily injury can be as simple as the infliction of pain, which being punched will surely do.

[NT1978]

"According to the arrest affidavit, store security observed Wesley and Davis select shirts and socks from a sale rack and hide them in their clothing."

I wished he could have found a different named friend if he was going to shoplift.