{"id":86835,"date":"2026-01-14T20:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/86835\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T20:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:19:07","slug":"scranton-man-charged-in-butler-twp-thefts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/86835\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton man charged in Butler Twp. thefts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Butler Twp. Police have charged a Scranton man in connection with a theft from his workplace.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel T. Brennan, 61, was charged with felony retail theft and receiving stolen property following a series of thefts last year at Best Cigar Prices &amp; Pub, located on Hillside Drive in Butler Twp.<\/p>\n<p>According to a criminal complaint, an employee was reviewing video of an inventory movement when he observed Brennan concealing cigars in his personal travel case.<\/p>\n<p>Through an investigation it was revealed that on five occasions during July and August Brennan removed a total of more than 600 cigars, accessories and company apparel from the retail store area.<\/p>\n<p>The thefts resulted in a total loss of $9,055.<\/p>\n<p>Brennan had only been employed a short time before the thefts were discovered.<\/p>\n<p>Brennan surrendered to police on Tuesday and was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge Daniel O\u2019Donnell who set bail at $20,000. A preliminary hearing is scheduled later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Butler Twp. Police have charged a Scranton man in connection with a theft from his workplace. Daniel T.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,182,139,178,180,179,181],"class_list":{"0":"post-86835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-scranton","12":"tag-scranton-headlines","13":"tag-scranton-news","14":"tag-top-stories-stt"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86835","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=86835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}