Ex-Aliquippa Basketball Star Herb Pope Facing Bank Robbery Charges

PITTSBURGH (AP) – A former western Pennsylvania high school basketball star whose legal troubles likely kept him from the NBA will appear before a federal judge in Pittsburgh today on charges he robbed two banks earlier this year.
Herbert Pope, 26, is charged in the armed robberies of a WesBanco branch and Sewickley Savings Bank four days apart in February.
Pope is charged with robbing the banks along with another man.
Pope starred at Aliquippa Junior-Senior High School then played for Set