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State Police at Lehighton

State police at Lehighton reported the following incidents:

• A 72-year-old Lehighton man was the victim of a theft incident in which someone used his credit card to make purchases of items valued at $207.46 at several stores.

Police were summoned at 5:40 p.m. Feb. 6 to a property on James Street in Towamensing Township to investigate the use of the man’s Capital One credit card.

• A 47-year-old Stroudsburg man was cited for disorderly conduct after police were summoned at 5:12 p.m. March 24 to a property along Emerson Road in Ross Township.

Police said the Stroudsburg man went to property and made contact with the man who lived there to start an argument about property.

• A 62-year-old Palmerton woman reported that she was the victim of a theft by deception incident.

Police said they were summoned to Hemlock Street in Lower Towamensing Township at 3:18 p.m. March 8 and the woman told them she received correspondence from the Bank of America that a credit card was opened in her name.

Police said the woman is not out of any money.

• Police were summoned to a residence on Dogwood Drive in Penn Forest Township at 3:10 p.m. March 2 to investigate a theft by deception incident.

Police said a 77-year-old man from Jim Thorpe told them a suspect attempted to deceive him out of thousands of dollars through a telephone scam.

• Police said they were summoned to a harassment by physical contact incident at 11:36 p.m. March 9 on East Ridge Street in Lansford.

Police said they were told a 48-year-old Lansford woman grabbed a 46-year-old man who is an EMS staff member, but the victim denied pressing charges.

• John R. Rivera, 34, of Albrightsville, is facing harassment charges.

Police said they were summoned at 9:21 p.m. March 26 to a property along Route 903 in Penn Forest Township where Rivera punched the victim and pulled the victim’s hair.

• Two women, ages 44 and 66, from Kunkletown, were cited for harassment after police were summoned at 10:36 a.m. March 20 to a location at Sassafras Lane and Forest Drive in Polk Township.

Police said they responded to an inactive domestic dispute report and were told both parties struck each other, resulting in the citations being issued.

• Police are investigating a scattering rubbish incident that was reported to them at 2:58 p.m. March 27.

It happened at a property along the Kunkletown Road in Ross Township. Police said a man and a woman, both 50 and from Saylorsburg, reported the trash having been thrown on their property.

• Police were summoned at 5:22 p.m. March 27 to a property on Buttercup Way in Towamensing Township to investigate a Protection From Abuse order violation.

Police said the complainant declined to prosecute and was advised to file an indirect criminal complaint with the county court.