State police at Fern Ridge report the following incidents.

• Police responded to a mother-daughter fight at 1:06 a.m. March 10 at a property along Towamensing Trail in Penn Forest Township.

Police listed a 13-year-old girl as the victim.

• Police were able to return a lost firearm to its owner. The firearm was found alongside Effort Neola Road at 12:23 a.m. March 3, police said.

• A 68-year-old Jim Thorpe man accidentally shot himself in the right hand at 5:30 a.m. March 5 in Penn Forest Township.

Police were contacted about the incident by St. Luke’s Carbon campus. An investigation revealed that the man shot himself while getting dressed, then drove himself to the hospital. The injury was minor, police said.

• A 57-year-old woman from Elmhurst, New York, was the victim of an internet scam reported at 12:20 a.m. March 5 in Tobyhanna Township.

Troopers said the woman was contacted by a person claiming to be affiliated with Amazon. She was told that her Amazon account was locked and that she would have to provide payment in the form of gift card numbers in order to reactivate the account. Police said she was swindled out of $3,067.

• Police are investigating a burglary that occurred on Vista Drive in Penn Forest Township at 4:46 p.m. on March 8. Troopers said nothing was taken from the residence and no damage was reported.

• A 43-year-old Kunkletown woman was charged with harassment after she damaged a vehicle belonging to a Kunkletown man at 5:05 p.m. Jan. 26 on Aspen Way in Chestnuthill Township. Damages are estimated at $1,000.

• A 32 year-old man from Saylorsburg has been charged with harassment after he allegedly struck a 29-year-old Lehighton woman at 1:36 p.m. March 12.

According to police, the woman said she was driving with the man when he became verbally argumentative. The man pulled the car over near Kennel Road, and as he was gathering his items from the car, he struck her in the head. When the woman called 911, the man began running on Silver Valley Road. Police observed injuries on the woman.

• A 70-year-old Brodheadsville man said that someone stole his identity to write a total of $4,300 in checks on his bank account. The incidents occurred between Feb. 21 and March 7, police said.

• A 69-year-old Effort man told police he was the victim of a theft by deception/identity theft scheme. Police said they were called to a property on Bluegrass Lane, Chestnuthill Township, to look into the incident that happened at 12:30 a.m. March 7.

• Benjamin Gonzalez, 29, of Kunkletown, was cited with failure to drive at a safe speed following a one-vehicle crash at 5:38 a.m. March 15 on Weir Lake Road in Chestnuthill Township.

Police said he was driving a 2003 Ford Explorer southbound when it traveled through a snow drift, causing Gonzalez to lost control of the vehicle. It slid across the northbound land and went off the east side of the road, striking a tree and a fence before coming to rest against a house.

The vehicle was towed from the scene.

Police said Gonzalez was uninjured.

• Police are investigating a sexual abuse case that was reported to have happened in 2021 involving a 14-year-old Jim Thorpe boy.

Police said they were told it happened at a residence along Susquehanna Drive in Penn Forest Township.

Police said the boy reported the incident to a mandated reporter.

• Martin Hodge, 41, of Albrightsville, is facing charges of violation of an emergency Protection of Abuse order that is against him after police responded to an incident at 11:47 a.m. March 25.

Police said a 40-year-old Albrightsville woman called them to a property on Guest Circle, Penn Forest Township, after Hodge was served the order earlier in the day.