State police at Lehighton

State police at the Lehighton barracks reported on the following investigations:

• Police are investigating a theft by deception case in which someone tried to use another person’s identity. The victim is a 68-year-old man from Saylorsburg, who reported that between midnight and 11:59 p.m. March 9 someone tried to use his identity on tax forms. The investigation is being continued by the Internal Revenue Service, police said.

• State police are investigating a theft that was reported at 10:51 a.m. March 6. The victim, a 57-year-old woman from East Penn Township, told police items have been disappearing from her residence along Smithlane Road over a long period of time.

• Damian Kibler, 20, of Palmerton, is facing theft charges relating to him having passed a counterfeit $100 bill at the Blue Mountain Ski Resort, on Blue Mountain Drive, Lower Towamensing Township. State police said they were called there at 4:35 p.m. March 17 after the incident took place.

• On March 9 at 10:14 p.m. troopers went to a residence along East Lizard Creek Road in East Penn Township, Carbon County, for a domestic incident. As a result of an investigation a 26-year-old woman and a 27-year-old man, both of Lehighton, were cited for harassment by physical contact. Troopers declined to identify the two suspects.