{"id":160606,"date":"2026-04-08T17:04:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160606\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T17:04:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:04:25","slug":"former-laflin-man-sentenced-for-shooting-into-neighbors-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160606\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Laflin man sentenced for shooting into neighbor\u2019s house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>WILKES-BARRE \u2014 A man who formerly lived in Laflin was sentenced in Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas for firing shots into a neighbor\u2019s residence in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/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 file. Two shots struck a neighbor\u2019s occupied house on Laflin Road, and two shots struck a parked vehicle, court records say.<\/p>\n<p>Nasternak was ordered to pay $2,175 in restitution and serve five years probation.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; WILKES-BARRE \u2014 A man who formerly lived in Laflin was sentenced in Luzerne County Court of Common&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-160606","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\/160606","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=160606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}