{"id":51472,"date":"2025-12-03T21:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/51472\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T21:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:55:07","slug":"lackawanna-county-travel-agent-sentenced-for-theft-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/51472\/","title":{"rendered":"Lackawanna County travel agent sentenced for theft charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eileen Miner will be serving up to five years for defrauding clients across four Pennsylvania counties.<\/p>\n<p>LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 A woman is locked up after being sentenced for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/article\/news\/local\/lackawanna-county\/travel-agent-facing-multiple-vacation-fraud-charges\/523-235c5cd7-a9ec-4f9a-a599-bf0ee33d7f4c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">theft charges<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say a Lackawanna County-based travel agent for Thompson Tours, Eileen Miner, will serve up to five years in county jail for defrauding clients.<\/p>\n<p>She collected money from customers for trips, then cancelled them and never provided refunds. Miner pleaded guilty to 35 felony theft charges and other offenses back in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/article\/news\/local\/lackawanna-county\/travel-agent-pleads-guilty-to-theft-charges-lackawanna-county-thompson-tours\/523-0a0c3bc0-e6eb-4816-ad90-7f88b0ef3f71\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">September<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition to jail time, Miner also faces 35 years of probation, 380 hours of community service, and has to pay more than $200,000 in restitution in Lackawanna County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eileen Miner will be serving up to five years for defrauding clients across four Pennsylvania counties. LACKAWANNA COUNTY,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-51472","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\/51472","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=51472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}