State police at the Fern Ridge barracks have released information on recent incidents:

• Police responded to a cruelty to animals report they received at 3:42 p.m. Oct. 8.

It happened along Apache Drive, Chestnuthill Township. Police said they conducted a neighborhood canvas after it was reported to them an owner’s dog was shot with a pellet gun.

• Police were called at 5:20 p.m. Oct. 7 to a theft by deception case involving a contractor and the owner of a property on Harvest Drive, Jackson Township.

Police said the victims told them they hired the suspect contractor to finish a deck that was previously built. They said they signed a contract in July and have the contractor $10,000 to begin the work. They told officers the suspect arrived at the property in August, dismantled the previously-built deck and has not returned to the property since then.

Police said, when contacted, the suspect made claims he had purchased the materials for the work.

• Police are investigating a reported credit card theft case they were called to at 5:31 p.m. Oct. 5 at a property on Shamrock Lane in Jackson Township.

The victim is a 30-year-old woman from Stroudsburg.

• Police said a ChildLine report of a possible sexual abuse of a 5-year-old Albrightsville girl by her parents was found to be unfounded.

Police said they responded at 2:23 p.m. Sept. 27 to a property on Basswood Court, Penn Forest Township, and upon investigating the case said the victim made no mention to them of sexual abuse.

• Philip DeRosa, 45, of Effort, was charged by police with harassment by physical contact after they were called to a domestic dispute at 9:37 p.m. Oct. 2 at a property on Mountain laurel Drive in Chestnuthill Township.

Police said a 46-year-old woman from Effort who told them DeRosa engaged in a verbal and physical altercation with her.

• Frederick Walters, 62, of Worcester, Maryland, escaped injuries in a two-vehicle incident at 10:53 a.m. Oct. 8 on Interstate 80 in Jackson Township.

Police said a hit-and-run vehicle was traveling in the right lane of the interstate at a high rate of speed when it swerved from the right lane to the left lane and struck a vehicle driven by Walters before fleeing the scene.