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State Police at Lehighton

State police at Lehighton report the following incidents:

• A 28-year-old Lansford man was charged with assault-bodily injury after police were summoned to a domestic dispute at 8:03 p.m. Oct. 23 to a property on West Bertsch Street in Lansford. The victims are two women, ages 24 and 32, both from Lansford.

• Police were called to a fight involving three juveniles against another a 15-year-old boy from Coaldale, who declined to prosecute in the harassment by physical contact case. It happened at 10:31 a.m. Oct. 25 at a property on West Lizard Creek Road in East Penn Township. .

• Police charged a 27-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman, both from Lehighton, for harassment by physical contact after a domestic dispute at 10:18 p.m. Oct. 22 at a property on Oak Drive in Mahoning Township.

• A 42-year-old Lehighton man is facing charges of possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and driving under the influence of a controlled substance after a traffic stop police made at 9:17 a.m. Oct. 24.

They stopped him for Motor Vehicle Code violations on Main Street in Parryville in a 2017 Kia Optima.