WILKES-BARRE — A man who formerly lived in Laflin was sentenced in Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas for firing shots into a neighbor’s residence in 2025.
Judge Joseph F. Sklarosky Jr. sentenced Robert J. Nasternak, 73, to one-month to two years on charges of discharge of a firearm into an occupied structure and reckless endangerment. Nasternak pled guilty to the charges Feb. 23.
Sklarosky awarded Nasternak 31 days time served in jail and was immediately paroled to house arrest with electronic monitoring. Nasternak has since relocated to a facility near Allentown, Lehigh County.
The Pennsylvania State Police at Wilkes-Barre, in court records, alleged Nasternak woke up on June 16, 2025, and fired at least five shots from a .308-caliber file. Two shots struck a neighbor’s occupied house on Laflin Road, and two shots struck a parked vehicle, court records say.
Nasternak was ordered to pay $2,175 in restitution and serve five years probation.