{"id":215499,"date":"2026-06-10T12:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T12:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215499\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T12:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T12:40:07","slug":"blakely-police-man-stole-tools-from-browns-mid-valley-tires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215499\/","title":{"rendered":"Blakely police: Man stole tools from Brown&#8217;s Mid-Valley Tires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Scranton man faces theft charges after police say he stole tools from Brown\u2019s Mid-Valley Tires on June 1.<\/p>\n<p>According to Blakely police, Alvie McCane, 44, presented himself to the business as being destitute and \u201cout of the goodness of their heart,\u201d employees provided him with a tire at no cost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, rather than repaying their generosity with gratitude, the defendant chose to steal tools from the business,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p>McCane faces misdemeanor charges of theft by unlawful taking and receiving stolen property.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Scranton man faces theft charges after police say he stole tools from Brown\u2019s Mid-Valley Tires on June&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2118,202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-215499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-blakely","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215499","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=215499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}