By Dyer Whitt
Staff Writer
On Tuesday, a federal judge in Austin sentenced Solomon Hobbs Jr. to nearly five years in prison. On top of the sentence, Hobbs must repay the $37,000 he stole in student loans.
Hobbs, also know as Virgil Clinton Powell, stole the identity of a college student in order to obtain money from a college loan. Investigators told the press that Hobbs primarily targeted the University of Texas at its Tyler, El Paso and Arlington locations. Hobbs also used another person’s name for student loans at Midwestern State University and Texas State University.
The crime has provoked officials to look into the accessibility of obtaining a student loan and to possibly propose a new procedure on how students receive loans. This inadvertently could pose a problem for CHS students who are going to be attending college next year.
