{"id":111519,"date":"2026-02-11T23:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/111519\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:04:07","slug":"final-suspect-sentenced-in-art-theft-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/111519\/","title":{"rendered":"Final suspect sentenced in art theft ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, a jury found Nicholas Dombek, 55, of Thornhurst Township, guilty of stealing art, antiques, and sports memorabilia from museums in our area and around the country.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say Dombek led the eight-person ring and melted down several of the stolen items.<\/p>\n<p>His co-conspirators have all been sentenced.<\/p>\n<p>Dombek must also pay $2,753,266 in restitution as part of his sentencing in Lackawanna County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year, a jury found Nicholas Dombek, 55, of Thornhurst Township, guilty of stealing art, antiques, and sports&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-111519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}