A former Carbon County resident admitted in the county court on Monday to stealing jewelry valued at $100,000 from his parents, then pawning it in Allentown.

Ryan Howard Strohl, 24, now of Throop, Lackawanna County, made the admission before President Judge Roger N. Nanovic II. He entered pleas in two pending cases to counts of theft and possession of a controlled substance. In exchange for the pleas, the district attorney's office dropped charges including terroristic threats in a third case.Strohl took the jewelry from his parents, Myron and Dawn Strohl, on Dec. 18, 2014. He had two co-defendants in the case. They went to Allentown and sold the jewelry for $1,400. Myron Strohl said the jewelry was valued at the $100,000 figure not only because of its material worth, but the sentimental value of the jewelry.Strohl said he had a drug addiction problem and tried to address it. He spent about nine months in a Salvation Army program in Wilkes-Barre and later Scranton, but was unsuccessfully discharged.The drug counts stem from an incident on Dec. 18, 2014, at the county prison, where he was brought on the theft charges. During intake at the prison, guards found two fentanyl patches which he did not have the right to have.The threats count, which he did not plead to, involved his father as the victim and occurred on Nov. 17, 2014, at their home in Franklin Township.Strohl told Nanovic, "I'm a different person now than the person I was before."Nanovic said, "You took all that value of your parents and sold it for $1,400. Why?" Strohl said he and the two others were going to use the money to move out of the area, something Nanovic was skeptical about. Strohl also claimed one of the co-defendants, a woman, was the one calling the shots in the theft and sale of the jewelry.Myron Strohl said he had not spoken with his son since his arrest but is ready to try and have a relationship with him. He said he and his wife are not asking for any restitution because he knows his son could not pay it anyway. He added that he believes is son is remorseful.Nanovic sentenced Strohl on the theft charge to serve one to one day less 24 months in prison followed by two years of probation. On the drug count he was sentenced to serve one to 12 months in prison concurrent with the first count. He was given credit for 76 days on the first count and 26 days on the second meaning he will be paroled.However, Nanovic ruled Strohl had to undergo a drug and alcohol evaluation at the prison before his release and if the recommendation calls for further treatment, including inpatient, he must follow that recommendation as part of his release. He was also ordered to get a mental health evaluation, zero tolerance imposed on drug and alcohol use, pay court costs of about $1,000 and pay a $50 per month supervision fee while on probation or parole.