Lansford police have Andre R. Boyer, 24, whose last known address was 200 W. Ridge St. in three cases.

He was charged with having a firearm on Aug. 13, when he was forbidden to have one; unauthorized use of a motor vehicle on Aug. 7, and possession of drug paraphernalia on July 3.

Here's how the cases unfolded, according to court documents:

At about 2 p.m. Aug. 13, a Debra Radocha came to the police station and said she and Boyer had lived together, and that she'd found a gun while cleaning out his possessions.

She gave police the gun, a .50 caliber CVA Wolf rifle.

On Aug. 17, officer Shawn Nunemacher spoke with Boyer, who was in Carbon County prison. Boyer told the officer the gun been given him to hold by someone named Rex, whose first name he couldn't recall.

Boyer, a convicted felon, twice convicted of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, is not allowed to have firearms.

On Aug. 7, Radocha told police her car had been stolen from in front of her house the day before. She said she believed Boyer, her friend and housemate, had taken it.

She talked to him, and he told her he would return the car. But he did not bring it back until Aug. 8.

Police entered the car into a national crime database as stolen.

They stopped the car in Lansford on Aug. 9. Radocha was driving, and Boyer was a passenger, helping her deliver newspapers.

Radocha told police she had planned to tell them she had her car back and was trying to get Boyer into the police station.

Police took him into custody on an unrelated warrant.

After he was released from custody, Boyer told investigator Charles Horvath he had taken the car, but there was a "misunderstanding between him and Radocha, and he hadn't returned the car because he had gotten lost.

Radocha gave police a written statement that she had not given Boyer permission to use the car and wanted him charged.

On July 3, Nunemacher saw Boyer walking with Steven Holtzer, both known to engage in drug activity, walking along west Bertsch Street.

Nunemacher was investigating Holtzer's role in a Summit Hill bicycle theft.

Police stopped Holtzer and asked him about the bike; Boyer kept walking.

Nunemacher asked Halter if he had anything on him. Holtzer produced a syringe, which police took. They let Halter go.

They found Boyer, and asked him the same question. He, too, had a syringe, but said it belonged to Holtzer, whom he was "helping out because he had a bad problem."