Tamaqua police released information on several cases:

• Police charged Charles Lash Jr., 40, of Tamaqua, with breaking into a Washington Street car wash on March 10.

Police were contacted March 11 by the business owner, who had a video of a man moving a video surveillance camera out of view before breaking into a locked shed at the car wash.

Police said the video shows the man — later identified as Lash — enter the shed.

Police took Lash into custody on March 25 on charges of criminal trespass, criminal mischief and disorderly conduct. The owner had a $300 loss due to the actions.

• Police said they charged Matthew Matukonis, 19, of Tamaqua, with simple assault and harassment after he bruised a woman’s arm and bit her in the leg following a 7 p.m. April 17 argument.

Police said the woman told police that she had been in a relationship with Matukonis and the two began an argument while she was driving. The woman said Matukonis grabbed the steering wheel and caused her to swerve.

She told police the argument continued when she parked her car and Matukonis threw his phone and hit her in the neck, grabbed her right arm and bit her on the right thigh. The woman was advised to seek medical treatment.

• Rina Sementilli, 44, of Pottsville, was charged with harassment for causing a disturbance just before midnight on April 18.

Officers said they were called to the 500 block of East Union Street for two women fighting on the street. Sementilli began screaming while officers were speaking to another woman. Police said Sementilli refused to stop screaming and would not provide identification. She also appeared intoxicated, police said, and resisted arrest.