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Nighttime visitors prompt call

| November 30, 2004 1:00 AM

A woman on U.S. 2 West reported her landlord pounding on her door at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, saying he is going to turn off her utilities. She is being evicted. It was after 1 a.m. when a posse of men showed up at a residence in Bigfork. The caller said the men were trying to break down his door and tried to break windows with rocks. They were gone when deputies arrived minutes later.

A woman reported that a man with a little green truck pointed a gun at her and her husband in the Dam Town Tavern parking lot Sunday afternoon.

A man who ran out of Shopko with jewelry made it out of the parking lot, but his arrest may soon follow.

A 14-year-old child on Houston Point was the subject of an officer's visit.

An elderly woman was asleep in her bed at at Lake View Care Center at 1:30 a.m. and then seemed to vanish. She was found later in bed with someone else.

A man was arrested on Ridgewood Drive after he allegedly headbutted a woman and took a few swings at her. He is also wanted on a warrant.

A report of an internal theft from a business is under investigation.

The latest event in on-going trouble between two people on U.S. 2 East was a cat box dumped on her car. She's moving out of the house this week.

A CD player was stolen from a car parked at a woman's grandmother's house. A purse was stolen from a cart at Wal-Mart.

Threats on Somers Road are over a custody matter.

A gate sensor was vandalized on One Way Road.

An officer explained to a Half Moon Road resident what happens if you give away a dog and then decide you want it back.

In the continuing theme of late-night and unwelcome door-pounders, a resident on Fifth Avenue East reported someone at the house at about 1 a.m., making threats and beating on the door. The point of contention? A microwave oven.

On Eighth Avenue West, an older man exposed himself to a woman.

Threats were reported at Village Loop.

About 30 spectators and participants in a fight at Lawrence Park vanished before officers arrived.

A man called police to complain about the telephone calls he's getting; a woman called to complain that when she calls the man's house, she is not able to speak to her adult daughter. The family decided to try to work it out without law-enforcement intervention.

Sheet metal and a tool box landed at the intersection of Main and Idaho streets.

St. Matthew's School was hit with pink paintballs. People in the attic of a business on First Avenue East damaged the ceiling.

A computer was stolen from a vehicle at Smith's.

Whitefish police were called to O'Brien Avenue early Monday when a woman reported her car stolen. The vehicle apparently slipped out of gear. Officers found it rolled down a hill, undamaged.

A man seen peeking the windows at Muldown School was gone when officers arrived.

Alarms

Kalispell fire department had six calls.

Badrock fire department, ALERT helicopter, Columbia Falls ambulance and fire department, highway patrol and sheriff's deputies went to a highway-speed accident on U.S. 2 and River Road on Monday afternoon. There were several injuries, some said to be serious.