{"id":69875,"date":"2025-12-24T21:36:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/69875\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T21:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:36:15","slug":"former-erie-humane-society-executive-director-set-to-enter-guilty-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/69875\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Erie Humane Society executive director set to enter guilty plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The former Erie Humane Society executive director, Nicole Leone, is set to enter a guilty plea next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to court documents, Leon was scheduled to plead guilty on December 24, but that hearing has been moved to January 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Leone, who led the humane society for nearly a decade, was accused of stealing more than $30,000 from the non-profit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Prosecutors said the alleged misuse of funds betrayed the trust of donors and volunteers who supported the shelter\u2019s missions.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If Leone does not plead guilty on the on January 16, she\u2019s set to go on trial on February 2.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former Erie Humane Society executive director, Nicole Leone, is set to enter a guilty plea next month.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,8437,137,327,36841],"class_list":{"0":"post-69875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-erie","9":"tag-erie-headlines","10":"tag-erie-humane-society","11":"tag-erie-news","12":"tag-guilty-plea","13":"tag-nicole-leone"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69875","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=69875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}