Tamaqua police report
Tamaqua police have reported on the following incidents.
• A 911 hang-up call onSunday resulted in a citation for a Tamaqua woman. The call was placed to the Schuylkill County Communications Center at 11:11 p.m., made from a home on Schuylkill Avenue. Officers arrived and found Kacee Allen, 23, and her caregiver. Allen was upset, refusing to take her medication and remained agitated until an officer sat with her. She agreed to calm down and go to sleep and officers left the home. Police were called back to the home 15 minutes later, after Allen physically attacked her caregiver. She was taken to the police station and cited for disorderly conduct and harassment.• David Alsing, 26, of Clay Street, Tamaqua, has been charged with strangulation, simple assault and harassment after an argument with his girlfriend on June 26.Officers met with the victim at 1:30 a.m. in the area of Broad and Mauch Chunk streets. The woman had bruises and swelling on her right arm and neck, caused, she said, by Alsing when he grabbed her and tried to choke her. Alsing had left the area and a warrant will be issued for his arrest.• Stewart Counterman, 37, of Lehighton, was cited after an argument at the Turkey Hill Minit Market on Broad Street. Counterman threw an object at a car parked at the gas pumps. When the driver of that car confronted him, there was an exchange of words that grew heated enough to scare the children in the car at the pumps. He was cited for disorderly conduct, but was transported to the Carbon County Correctional Facility in Nesquehoning on an outstanding warrant for his arrest.• Barry Ohl, 24, of Nescopec Street, Tamaqua, was charged by police after he destroyed a former girlfriend's Access and insurance cards. The victim contacted police on June 23 after she learned that Ohl had her cards and destroyed them. The cards had been accidentally left with a friend of the victim and Ohl offered to return them. Instead, the cards were ripped and burned, then thrown in a dumpster. He was charged with theft of lost property, theft by unlawful taking and receiving stolen property.• Lisa Cope, 52, no permanent address, faces charges of theft after she reportedly took a tip jar from a counter at Pieracini's Market on Hunter Street. The jar was taken on June 22 and contained more than $20 in cash.