{"id":274798,"date":"2026-08-29T18:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T18:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/274798\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T18:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T18:38:13","slug":"former-ritz-manager-admits-to-theft-in-lackawanna-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/274798\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Ritz manager admits to theft in Lackawanna County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Olecki admitted to stealing from the Ritz and entered an Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program, according to the Lackawanna County D.A.&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 A former manager of the Ritz Theater in Scranton has admitted to embezzling money from the business.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, James Olecki was charged after stealing nearly $75,000 from the Ritz.<\/p>\n<p>District Attorney Brian Gallagher said Olecki admitted in court to stealing the money and entered an Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition, or ARD, program.<\/p>\n<p>Entering the ARD program means Olecki will not face jail time or a criminal record.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement posted on social media, Olecki says in part he &#8220;did not steal from The Ritz Theater and my decision to accept ARD does not change that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Olecki admitted to stealing from the Ritz and entered an Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program, according to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-274798","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\/274798","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=274798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}