Eddie Cadro, a former assistant manager of Reeds Jewelers in Amherst, was ordered Wednesday to begin four months of weekends in jail for thefts from the store.

State Supreme Court Justice Christopher J. Burns required Cadro to sign a confession of judgment for his periodic thefts from the Maple Road store’s cash register and for pocketing cash from old and apparently abandoned layaway accounts at the store.

Cadro, 41, of Delaware Road, Town of Tonawanda, was also placed on probation for the next five years on his guilty plea to grand larceny.

Cadro started working at Reeds in September 1999 and was an assistant manager from May 2001 until he was fired 14 months ago.

The confession of judgment that Cadro signed obligates him to ultimately make a total of $2,500 in restitution, prosecutors said.

Cadro admitted he was responsible for periodic shortages in the store cash register and also admitted he had been cashing out old layaway slips and pocketing the money instead of returning it to store clients from May 2008 until his firing, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors Robin J. Deubler and Sarah A. Filacomo confirmed that Cadro had been spared criminal punishment in the mid-1990s for his theft of about $12,000 worth of Buffalo Sabres season tickets destined for Canadian fans after he agreed to make full restitution in Erie County Court.

Cadro was scalping tickets while employed by a delivery service used by the Sabres. He was arrested in October 1995 when several fans showed up at preseason games with tickets for the same seats, prosecutors said.

After Canadian fans reported not receiving season tickets they had ordered, the club mailed them replacements with special markings, indicating they were legitimate.

In October 1995, Cadro was carrying eight books of stolen Sabres tickets, prosecutors said.

Court records indicated he was granted a conditional discharge after he agreed to make full restitution in that scam.