{"id":88655,"date":"2026-01-16T16:49:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/88655\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:49:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:49:24","slug":"former-erie-humane-society-executive-director-pleads-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/88655\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Erie Humane Society executive director pleads guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After several trial date changes, former Erie Humane Society executive director Nicole Leone pleaded guilty in court on Friday, more than a year after she was charged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Leone, who was accused of stealing approximately $32,435.69 from the Humane Society, pleaded guilty to theft by deception and will face a sentence of 43 months of probation, starting with 7 months of house arrest with electronic monitoring, as agreed upon with the prosecution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to anchor Matt Mathias, who sat in on the proceedings, Leone\u2019s charges of felony access device fraud and misdemeanor tampering with records of identification were dropped as part of the plea. Restitution was also paid in full.<\/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\">In court to witness the plea were Erie Humane Society board directors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Matt Mathis will have more information during our 5 p.m. newscast.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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":"After several trial date changes, former Erie Humane Society executive director Nicole Leone pleaded guilty in court on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[44022,136,138,8437,137,44019,44021,36841,44020,23469],"class_list":{"0":"post-88655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-electronic-monitoring","9":"tag-erie","10":"tag-erie-headlines","11":"tag-erie-humane-society","12":"tag-erie-news","13":"tag-humane-society","14":"tag-matt-mathias","15":"tag-nicole-leone","16":"tag-the-humane-society","17":"tag-theft-by-deception"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88655","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=88655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}