{"id":124188,"date":"2026-02-26T15:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/124188\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T15:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:43:09","slug":"laflin-man-pleads-guilty-to-shooting-up-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/124188\/","title":{"rendered":"Laflin man pleads guilty to shooting up house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Laflin man accused of shooting up a neighbor\u2019s home with a high-powered rifle pleaded guilty this week, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p>Robert J. Nasternak, 73, pleaded guilty Monday to a felony charge of shooting into an occupied structure and a misdemeanor charge of reckless endangerment.<\/p>\n<p>Luzerne County Judge Joseph F. Sklarosky Jr. accepted the plea and set sentencing for April 7.<\/p>\n<p>According to prosecutors, Nasternak opened fire on his neighbors\u2019 property at 69 Laflin Road on the morning of June 16, 2025, with bullets hitting the house as well as a Toyota SUV.<\/p>\n<p>Nasternak later admitted shooting up the place with a .308-caliber rifle after having a dream that his neighbors, with whom he had issues in the past, wanted to hurt him, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>Nasternak was allowed to remain free on bail pending sentencing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Laflin man accused of shooting up a neighbor\u2019s home with a high-powered rifle pleaded guilty this week,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[46,58230,182,803,139,28,178,180,179,802],"class_list":["post-124188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-courts","tag-laflin","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-cvc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124188","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=124188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}