Law roundup: Maybe leave the policing to the police

Taking a vigilante approach to allegedly speeding motorists in his neighborhood, a Columbia Falls resident learned that policing traffic safety laws might be better left to, well, the police. Officers with the Columbia Falls Police Department initially thought they were responding to a man intentionally struck by the driver of a utility truck on Martha Road, but later learned it was an argument sparked when the man told the person behind the wheel to slow down. Officers recommended he phone authorities in the future rather than confront motorists by his lonesome. 

Officers headed to Third Avenue for a report of a small black car driving around the neighborhood. The person who alerted the police said it appeared as though the vehicle’s occupants were photographing a nearby RV park. Unable to find the car, officers agreed to mount extra patrols during the night.

A woman accused a man of grabbing her wrist, seizing her phone and throwing the device.