{"id":86788,"date":"2026-01-14T19:31:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/86788\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T19:31:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:31:05","slug":"scranton-man-charged-with-stealing-cigars-from-employer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/86788\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton man charged with stealing cigars from employer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>BUTLER TWP. \u2014 Police in Butler Township charged a Scranton man with stealing more than $9,000 of merchandise, including cigars, from his employer, Best Cigar Prices &amp; Pub.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel T. Brennan, 61, was arraigned Tuesday by District Judge Daniel O\u2019Donnell in Butler Township on charges of receiving stolen property and retail theft. He was released on $20,000 unsecured bail.<\/p>\n<p>According to police:<\/p>\n<p>An employee a the retail store reviewed surveillance footage of inventory movement when he allegedly observed Brennan concealing cigars in a personal travel case. An internal investigation revealed Brennan had stolen approximately 600 cigars, accessories and company apparel during July and August, police stated.<\/p>\n<p>Police allege the thefts resulted in a total loss of $9,055 to the store on Hillsdie Drive. <\/p>\n<p>Brennan was employed at the store for a short time when the thefts were alleged discovered.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; BUTLER TWP. \u2014 Police in Butler Township charged a Scranton man with stealing more than $9,000 of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-86788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86788","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=86788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}