{"id":307418,"date":"2026-10-15T19:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T19:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307418\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T19:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T19:38:07","slug":"2-charged-in-exter-pizza-shop-oil-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307418\/","title":{"rendered":"2 charged in Exter pizza shop oil theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men are facing theft charges after being caught stealing cooking oil from an Exeter pizza shop Thursday, according to Wyoming Area Regional Police.<\/p>\n<p>Arlin Salvador Castillo Medina, 28, of Wilkes-Barre, and Jose Miguel Medina Soto, 31, of Paterson, New Jersey, are accused of stealing oil from Pizza L\u2019Oven at 1259 Wyoming Ave. around 3 a.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the caught the pair sitting in a truck marked by J&amp;A Global Oil Solutions logos. They had siphoned off about 150 gallons of oil when they were discovered, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police impounded the truck and charged both men\u00a0with theft, criminal trespassing, prowling at night and possessing instruments of crime.<\/p>\n<p>Magisterial District Judge Daniel O\u2019Donnell arraigned the pair and set their bail at $10,000 each. They were being held at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility with a preliminary hearing scheduled for Oct. 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men are facing theft charges after being caught stealing cooking oil from an Exeter pizza shop Thursday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,1027,182,803,139,28,178,180,179,802],"class_list":["post-307418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-exeter","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\/307418","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=307418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}