He was charged with stealing from the Wingate Inn in Unity Township from April 2007 to August 2009 — 
which he managed while also serving as mayor — before he left to buy a competing business, the Mountain View Inn.
The former mayor of Latrobe has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges that he stole about $52,000 from hotel restaurant where he worked and will serve two years’ probation after paying back the money.
Forty-two-year-old Thomas Marflak was charged by Westmoreland County detectives in September 2010, a few months after finishing a four-year term as the first Republican mayor in Latrobe since 1965.
Marflak has claimed the money he spent using hotel credit cards was for legitimate expenses, not his own use, but pleaded guilty Friday to avoid trial and possible prison time on felony charges.
