Burglary alarms go off at Best Bet Casino on Idaho Street

Kalispell police and Flathead County Sheriff's Office deputies surrounded the Best Bet Casino on Idaho Street when a burglary alarm went off there shortly after midnight Sunday morning. Through a door, officers saw a man wearing a black coat and a red hat going through cupboards. According to police reports, a man entered the building through the roof and was searching for cash, doing extensive damage to the building in the process. The casino's owner let police into the building and they arrested Daniel Gene Townsend, 26, on felony charges of burglary and criminal mischief.

A business in the 1400 block of Airport Road was also broken into. A window was smashed, a door was left open and a cash box was stolen. The Los Caporales restaurant on U.S. 93 also reported a burglary.

Kalispell police arrested a 28-year-old man for theft, shoplifting, resisting arrest and criminal trespass at a convenience store on First Avenue East.

Following a disturbance call on Birchwood Court, police charged an 18-year-old woman with alcohol possession and a 20-year-old man with obstructing an officer and possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia.