Tamaqua police have released information on the following cases in the borough:

Police charged Talon Lewis, 24, of Summit Hill, with retail theft and drug-related offenses following an April 26 incident at Advance Auto Parts in the borough.

Police said officers were called to the store at 11:10 a.m. after a manager said a man put items in his backpack but didn’t pay for them. Lewis said he was paying for his items.

Lewis invited officers to check his bag and officers said they found clothing along with suspected marijuana. Police said Lewis told officers that he had “weed” in his bag.

Lewis had an empty cigarette pack containing a white powdery substance in his pocket. Behind his waistband, officers said they found a quart of Valvoline oil.

Lewis was taken into custody. The substances found tested positive as methamphetamine and marijuana, police said.

Police charged Lewis with two counts of possession of a controlled substance, and a count each of possession of drug paraphernalia and retail theft.

• Police charged Kenneth Vanhorn, 42, of Tamaqua, with simple assault and harassment after he grabbed and shoved a 9 year-old boy and hit a borough woman on April 28.

Officers were dispatched to Vanhorn’s residence on the 400-block of North Railroad Street at 8:53 p.m. for a domestic disturbance. A woman told police that Vanhorn came home from work intoxicated and when she told him that he was drunk, he struck her in the face. She had marks on her cheeks and bruising on her arms.

The victim said Vanhorn then “put his hands” on her 9 year-old son. The boy told officers that Vanhorn grabbed him by the shirt, threw him to the ground and then wrapped and squeezed his legs around him. Officers said the boy had marks on his chest. He also injured his tongue, which he bit when Vanhorn had him on the floor.

Both victims refused emergency medical attention. Vanhorn was committed to the Schuylkill County Prison on a probation violation.

Tamaqua police charged Heather Fenstermacher, 34, of Tamaqua, with criminal trespass and harassment following an April 19 incident on Elm Street.

Police said they received a report from a woman who said a video doorbell system caught images of Fenstermacher on her property around 2:42 p.m. Fenstermacher was told in the past not to be on the property, police said.

The woman also told police that Fenstermacher had been sending harassing texts and making harassing phone calls even though she was told not to do so.