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State police at Lehighton

State police at Lehighton reported on the following incidents:

• A 32-year-old Palmerton man is facing charges of driving under the influence of alcohol after a traffic stop police made at 2:13 a.m. Feb. 4 on Hickory Road, Towamensing Township.

He was stopped while driving a 2012 Subaru Forester.

• A 35-year-old Bushkill man is facing charges of driving under the influence of a controlled substance after a traffic stop police made at 2:38 a.m. Feb. 2 at the intersection of Chestnut and Frantz roads in Chestnuthill Township.

Police said he was driving a 2010 Honda Civic.

• A 36-year-old man from Saylorsburg is charged of assault with bodily injury following an incident at 11:56 p.m. Feb. 2 at a property on Ramblewood Drive in Ross Township.

Police said a 42-year-old woman from Saylorsburg told them she was physically assaulted and harassed by the man following a verbal dispute in their common residence.

The man was committed to the Monroe County Correctional Facility, Snydersville, police said.

• A 30-year-old Philadelphia man faces charges of driving under the influence of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance after a traffic stop at 3:32 a.m. Jan. 28 on the Sgt. Stanley Hoffman Boulevard in Lehighton Borough.

He was driving a 2011 Toyota when he was stopped for a Title 75 violation.

• A 59-year-old Gilbert woman was charged with harassment by physical contact after police were called to an incident at 6:14 p.m. Jan. 30 at a property on Weir Mountain Road in Polk Township.

The victim is a 60-year-old man from Gilbert who told police an argument between the two parties turned into a physical altercation when the woman struck him in the head, arms and back with closed fists. The man was uninjured, police said.

• A 53-year-old Lehighton man is facing charges of driving under the influence of alcohol after a traffic stop police made at 7:02 p.m. Jan. 25 at the intersection of Rock Street and Interchange Road in Franklin Township.

• A 36-year-old Jim Thorpe man is facing charges of driving under the influence of alcohol after a traffic stop police made at 10:15 p.m. Jan. 27 after being stop on Boyer Farm Road, Lower Towamensing Township.

• Elizabeth J. Ensana, 46, of Kunkletown, sustained suspected minor injuries in a one-vehicle crash at 6:35 p.m. Feb. 5 on Fiddletown Road in Eldred Township.

Police said she was transported by personnel from the Lehighton Ambulance to the Lehigh Valley Hospital.

Police said Ensana was cited for failure to drive at a safe speed.

• A 35-year-old Saylorsburg woman was cited for calling 911 several times without an emergency after police were called at 5:09 p.m. Feb. 6 to 144 Hemlock Lane, Ross Township.

• A 62-year-old Stroudsburg man is facing charges of driving under the influence of a co trolled substance after a traffic stop police made at 2:38 a.m. Feb. 7 at the intersection of Bunny lane and Route 115 in Chestnuthill Township.