A 24-year-old man has been charged with breaking into multiple homes, some of which were occupied, during a four-day period in Lehigh and Northampton counties.

Andrew Patrick Miller, who has no current address, was charged May 19 after an investigation by a detective with Lehigh County District Attorney’s Auto Theft Task Force.

Miller is charged with four counts of burglary, a felony of the first degree; three counts of burglary, a felony of the second degree; one count of theft for stealing a handgun, a felony of the first degree; three counts of criminal trespass, a felony of the second degree; three counts of criminal trespass, a felony of the third degree; unlawful possession of a firearm, a felony of the second degree; and having a firearm without a license, a felony of the third degree.

On May 12, Miller was charged with one count of burglary, a felony of the first degree; one count of burglary, a felony of the second degree; two counts of theft, misdemeanors of the second degree; and two summary counts of criminal mischief.

Miller also was charged with theft of a motor vehicle and receiving stolen property, both felonies of the third degree; unauthorized use of an automobile, a misdemeanor of the second degree; accidents involving damage to a vehicle or property, a misdemeanor of the third degree; and providing false identification to law enforcement authorities, a misdemeanor of the third degree.

The cases of two burglaries that had occurred in Northampton County have been transferred to Lehigh County for prosecution.

Miller has been in Lehigh County Prison since May 12.

According to the affidavits of probable cause, shortly after 7 p.m. May 8, Whitehall police were dispatched to a residence on North Third Street for a report of a burglary. The resident was not at home when the burglary occurred. Approximately $200 worth of jewelry was taken, and the resident reported someone had rifled through the rooms and had poured bleach throughout the residence.

At 12:41 p.m. May 9, residents of a home on Pheasant Drive in East Allen Township, Northampton County, reported to Pennsylvania State Police someone attempted to break into their home while they were there.

At 5:53 p.m. that same day, another Pheasant Drive resident reported his home was burglarized while he and his wife were inside. Antique currency and a prayer book were taken.

The next day, May 10, four burglaries were reported.

A resident of South Seventh Street in Coplay reported someone was breaking into his house. When borough police arrived, they saw a window had been broken and the back door ajar.

That afternoon, a resident on Highland Street in Allentown reported he was mowing grass when someone broke into his home. A blank checkbook, $350 in cash and a credit card were stolen.

That evening, a resident on Center Street in Coplay told police his home had been burglarized. The resident said someone took a $100 gold bracelet and a laptop computer.

Later that evening, Whitehall police were dispatched to North Fourth Street for a report of a burglary in progress. The perpetrator had fled the scene before police arrived. The resident said she was in her home when a man wearing dark clothing entered her bedroom. The resident said the man went through her drawers, stole two jewelry boxes with $200 worth of jewelry and then fled when he realized the resident was in the room.

The following morning, May 11, a woman reported her vehicle had been stolen in Allentown. The vehicle had been left running with the keys in it while it was parked at a convenience store in the 700 block of North Seventh Street in Allentown.

Shortly after, Coplay police located the vehicle, which had been involved in a hit-and-run accident in Whitehall Township, in the 800 block of Center Street in the borough. Detectives with the auto theft task force responded to the scene. Those detectives heard a radio report that a Coplay police officer was talking to a man in an alley off the 500 block of Center Street.

The officer, who was in a patrol vehicle, noticed the man, later identified as Miller, was carrying two bags and was limping.

The officer pulled alongside the man and questioned him. The man had a swollen ankle and multiple bruises on his body. The man said he did not have identification. He said his name was Matthew Miller, and he gave the officer two different dates of birth.

The man became nervous and attempted to run past the officer. The officer took him into custody and later identified him as Andrew Patrick Miller.

The bags he was carrying contained a gun with two loaded magazines and a gaming system.

The gun and the gaming system had been stolen in a residential burglary earlier that day on South Third Street in Coplay. Shortly after that burglary, a resident on Tilghman Street in Allentown had reported a burglary in which an Avon bag, jewelry and Avon products had been stolen.