{"id":122381,"date":"2026-02-24T20:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/122381\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:06","slug":"laflin-man-admits-firing-shots-into-neighbors-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/122381\/","title":{"rendered":"Laflin man admits firing shots into neighbor\u2019s house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>WILKES-BARRE \u2014 A man from Laflin pleaded guilty to firing shots into a neighbor\u2019s house that endangered a resident last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Robert J. Nasternak, 73, of Laflin Road, pled guilty to discharge of a firearm into an occupied residence and reckless endangerment before Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas Judge Joseph F. Sklarosky Jr.<\/p>\n<p>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 rifle. Two shots struck a neighbor\u2019s occupied house, and two shots struck a parked vehicle, court records say.<\/p>\n<p>State police in court records alleged Nasternak claimed he had a dream that people wanted to hurt him and went to his garage, where he fired the shots.<\/p>\n<p>Nasternak remains free on bail and is scheduled to be sentenced on April 7.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; WILKES-BARRE \u2014 A man from Laflin pleaded guilty to firing shots into a neighbor\u2019s house that endangered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-122381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122381","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=122381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}