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State police at Lehighton

State police at Lehighton reported on the following incidents:

• Police are investigating a criminal mischief incident that was reported at 12:30 a.m. Oct. 19 along Arrow Lane, Polk Township. Police said someone keyed the left door and fender, the rear hatch, bumper and quarter panel and the hood of the vehicle owned by a 55-year-old woman from Kunkletown, resulting in $900 in damages.

• Russell Walters Jr., 41, of Walnutport, has been charged with harassment, stemming from an incident that happened between 6:30-6:35 p.m. Sept. 28 in the 3000 block of Forest Inn Road, Lower Towamensing Township. A 67-year-old Palmerton man reported Walters grabbed him by the arms and would not let him walk past his residence.

• A trespassing incident in the 900 block of Hideaway Hills Road in Polk Township was reported Oct. 3. Police said they were summoned to a vacant residence that is for sale after it was discovered unknown people had moved items into it.

• Police are investigating a criminal mischief incident that happened between midnight Oct. 17 and 1:43 p.m. Oct. 18 at the Nis Hollow Park, Lower Nis Hollow Driver and Dinkey Road, East Penn Township. Someone broke a glass window on an entry door to a well plant at the property. The damage is estimated at $25.

• A criminal mischief incident was reported at 7 p.m. Oct. 9 in Penn Forest Township. The victim, a 66-year-old Jim Thorpe man, reported someone drove an all-terrain vehicle through his corn field, damaging the crops. The field is located at Route 903 and Maury Road.

• Damages of $638 to flowers and pumpkins were reported in an incident that happened between midnight Oct. 17 and 2:30 p.m. Oct. 18. A 74-year-old Kunkletown man reported the damage took place in the 300 block of Lower Smith Gap Road, Lower Towamensing Township.

• Police are investigating a burglary reported at 4:57 p.m. Sept. 24. Police said a 56-year-old man from the 100 block of White Church Lane, Kunkletown, told them he was in jail for two months and arrived home to find several items missing from his residence. Police said there are no suspects at this time.

• A 48-year-old Palmerton man reported that someone smashed a rear glass door on his residence in the 300 block of White Lane in Towamensing Township between 7:45 p.m. and 8 p.m. Oct. 19.

• Police are investigating a robbery that was reported at 5 p.m. Oct. 20 in the 400 block of White Street, Weissport. A 61-year-old Lehighton man reported that someone stole $280 from his vehicle. The thief took two $100 bills and four $20 bills, police said.

• Drug paraphernalia was discovered in abandoned property after police assisted the Lehighton Ambulance on a call for medical attention. The discovery was made in the 300 block of White Street in Weissport, after the ambulance was called there at 1:46 p.m. Oct. 20.

• Three people were cited for harassment after an incident at 7:31 p.m. Oct. 17 in Polk Township.

Cited were a 24-year-old man and a 49-year-old man, both from Effort, and a 28-year-old man from Kunkletown.

Police said all were fighting and it could not be determined who started the altercation, resulting in all of them being cited.

The 24-year-old and the 28-year-old are listed as victims of the incident.

• Police responded to a domestic dispute on Oct. 5 between a boyfriend and girlfriend and cited the man.

Police said the woman told them she was pushed to the ground by her boyfriend. Police said evidence confirmed her statement.

• Someone dumped full garbage bags onto a property on the 9100 block of Interchange Road between 4:30 p.m. Oct. 8 and 4 p.m. Oct. 10.

• Police were summoned on Sept. 27 to an incident where a cellphone was found on a person’s property.

Police said the property owner told them they found the cellphone in their back yard and that they were concerned someone was on their property.

It was later learned that a woman lost the phone while chasing her dog.

• Police said they were summoned to a Lower Towamensing Township residence for a false alarm at 3:01 p.m. Oct. 17. It was the fourth false alarm in 12 months, police said.

As a result of the call, the owner of the property, located at 130 Sunny Rest St., will be issued a citation, police said.