WDTV: New Bridgeport Mayor Greer Talks about Decades Old Drug Charge
By Connect-Bridgeport Staff on September 19, 2014
WDTV had an exclusive report during its 5 p.m. news broadcast regarding a past drug conviction involving newly-appointed Mayor Bob Greer. According to the report, WDTV obtained federal court documents showing that Mayor Robert Greer had been convicted of conspiracy to deliver cocaine in 1987.
Greer is interviewed in the segment.
"I was a college student, in Morgantown, and I was attending law school and I was running with the wrong crowd of people," Greer said.
Greer was sentenced to three years behind bars, but the sentence was suspended for a probation of five years, the first six months of which had to be home confinement, the report states.