• Steven Lambert, 27, of Wilmington, was arrested for possession of narcotics in Chadds Ford Township, a police report said. According to police, Lambert was pulled over 12:34 a.m., Aug. 14 on Route 202 at Marshal Road as part of a traffic stop. He was found to be in possession of narcotics and paraphernalia, the report said.

• Police arrested Kristi Welsh, 28, of Pilesgrove, N.J. for DUI on Aug. 15. A report from state police said Welsh was stopped for traffic violations on Route 202 at Sweetwater Plaza at 3:54 a.m.

• Policed also reported that a Kristi Brown, also 28 and from Pilesgrove, N.J. was arrested for DUI on Route 202 at Sweetwater Plaza at 2:11 a.m. on Aug. 14.

• A 28-year-old from Collegeville was accused of harassment following an Aug. 14 incident at the Hillside Motel on Route 1 in Concord Township. A police report said Daniel Natuzzi punched a 23-year-old woman from Havertown.

• Caitlin McCabe, 26, reportedly of Chadds Ford, is accused of resisting arrest after she was determined to be DUI, according to state police. A report said McCabe crashed her vehicle on Green Valley Road in East Marlborough Township at 5:12 p.m. on Aug. 6. She was taken into custody, but police said she resisted their efforts.

• State police from Troop J, Avondale barracks, said Uriel Ortiz-Perez, 26, of Kennett Township, was arrested for aggravated assault on Aug. 11. The report said the accused threw a 20-year-old woman down a flight of stairs.

• Police are looking for a white male who tried to steal $200 worth of Nicorette Gum from the CVS Pharmacy in East Marlborough Township on Aug. 1. The suspect, who was wearing a beige baseball cap and blue short-sleeved button-down shirt, was interrupted and fled.

• Two women from Philadelphia were victimized when someone broke into a car parked at the Brandywine River Museum of Art on Aug. 15. Police said someone smashed the right front window of a Subaru sedan and removed a brown purse containing two wallets, two I-Phones and multiple credit cards.

• State police from Troop K, Media barracks, reported a burglary on Rebecca’s lane in Thornbury Township. Details are thin, but the break-in took place on Aug. 2 about 6:20 p.m. Unspecified items were taken.

• A 17-year-old from Oxford was charged with careless driving after he lost control of the Subaru SUV he was driving on Crestline Court in Chadds Ford Township. State police said the youth was on the road just after midnight on July 27. According to the report, he was driving north on Crestline at 12:06 a.m. when he swerved to the left, then made another quick jerking motion to the right. He then lost control and the vehicle rolled over. Police determined that he was DUI.

• State police from the Avondale barracks are investigating an alleged incident of criminal trespass sometime between midnight on Friday, July 31, and 4:22 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 10. Police said that while the homeowners on Hillspring Road in Pennsbury Township were away on vacation, someone placed a ladder at the rear of the property and then removed it.

• A fatal house fire on Hannum Mill Road in London Grove Township on Monday, Aug. 17, at 12:58 p.m. is under investigation by the Chester County Fire Marshal and state police from the Avondale barracks. Firefighters from West Grove, Avondale, Po-Mar-Lin, Kennett and Longwood fire companies battled the blaze and removed Steven L. Tingley, 50, of West Grove, from the residence. Tingley was taken to Jennersville Hospital, where he was pronounced dead; the Chester County Coroner’s Office said Tingley died from a single gunshot wound and ruled the death a suicide.