Lansford police have charged three borough residents with crimes.

Travis M. Brideson, 28, of Cortright Street, Lansford, was charged with possession, use, sale or display of documents, and traffic violations on Aug. 13.Officer Shawn Nunemacher at 8:45 a.m. stopped a car with an inspection sticker that had expired in April.Nunemacher knew from previous incidents that Brideson's license had been suspended, and further investigation showed the car had the wrong license plate and a registration sticker that was valid, but not for Brideson's car. He told Nunemacher he had "found" it.Joseph Kosalko Jr., 36, of the 500 block of East Bertsch Street, Lansford, was charged with possession, use, sale or display documents, and traffic violations on Aug. 28.Nunemacher saw Kosalko leave his home at 11 a.m., driving a Jeep. Jim Thorpe police had alerted Lansford in June that Kosalko was driving with a Jeep with a false plate. The plate bore a registration sticker with an October 2016 expiration. But when Nunemacher ran the plate numbers through the state database, he learned the plate actually expired in July 2015.The sticker had been tampered with, and Kosalko had no proof of insurance.Daniel W. Hollan, 33, of East Ridge Street, Lansford, was charged with defiant trespass on July 20; loitering and prowling at night, and defiant trespass, also on July 20 at the same address; and escape, and flight to avoid apprehension on Sept. 28.According to an affidavit of probable cause filed by officer Jason A. Helmer, Hollan was caught at around 5 a.m. July 20 on the roof of a building, trying to break into an adjacent apartment building from which the owner had barred him.Two people who lived in the apartment told police Hollan was trying to open the window and yelling for his former girlfriend, who also lived there.On Sept. 28, officers Joshua Tom and Derek Marouchoc were out looking for Hollan, who had an active warrant against him from Carbon County Adult Probation.They were checking a house on East Ridge Street, where they saw Hollan's mother sitting in a car in front of the house.Police asked if they could search the house for Hollan, and his mother agreed. But first, she said, she had to let her husband know police would be coming in.Meanwhile, another person sat in the passenger seat, texting.Marouchoc secured the front of the house, and Tom went to the back. He heard Marouchoc yelling at Hollan to stop running. Tom heard noise and looked up to see Hollan running across the roof.Hollan slid to the ground through the narrow space between two houses and ran.Tom later found Hollan hiding in thick brush and yelled for him to surrender. Holland ran again, and again Tom found him.Hollan ran again, but Tom finally caught him.