This time, the MHP car was in the wreck
Kalispell police and the Kalispell Fire Department went to the intersection of Main Street and Idaho Avenue when a Montana Highway Patrol car and another vehicle collided. No one had to go to the hospital, but two trucks came to haul both cars away.
Police arrested a 19-year-old man in the 1000 block of West Center Street for assault, criminal mischief and possession of alcohol. A 56-year-old man was charged with DUI at the south end of Third Avenue East.
Officers went to Scotty's Bar to make sure two people who had been fighting left the parking lot without restarting their melee. On Sunday morning, two people contacted police and alleged that someone had drugged their drinks at Scotty's the night before.
Mischief makers ran amok in Kalispell Saturday night and early Sunday morning. From Main Street downtown came a report of a gray Jeep Cherokee weaving in and out of traffic while the occupant or occupants sprayed silly string at other drivers. Someone shot a window at the Super 8 motel , most likely with a BB or pellet gun.
Two eggs were thrown at a house in the 500 block of 10th Avenue West. Miscreants shot paintballs at two houses on Sherry Lane, and a house on Garland Street was peppered with pink paintballs.
Pink paintballs also showed up Flathead County Sheriff's Office reports - in this case, splattered on the front doors of the Burger King in Evergreen.
Seven mailboxes were damaged on East Lakeshore Drive.
A woman went to get help after her car broke down behind Office Max. When she returned, all the car's windows had been broken.
Leaves were unlawfully dumped at the Leiser Island boat launch. A woman on Ashley Lake Road complained that a neighbor's dog was chasing her cattle.
Officers suspected drunk driving when a tan van was found in a ditch on Montana 35 near Glacier Pines - and the driver, a 48-year-old woman, was charged with DUI, driving without a valid license or liability insurance, and a criminal contempt warrant.
A report came in from Lutheran Camp Road that someone driving a black Nissan 280Z with a blue light - who was definitely not a cop - was pulling people over. The car was later reported in downtown Kalispell, but police never located it.
A 27-year-old man was found dead by his roommate Sunday. Officers were still investigating, but reports from the sheriff's office indicated that foul play was not suspected.
Alarms
The Kalispell fire department's nine calls included taking two people to Kalispell Regional Medical Center following an accident on U.S. 93 north of Whiteoak.
A woman at Pathways had to be taken to KRMC after she ripped the stitches out of her arm.
Members of the Smith Valley fire department were called along with Kalispell firemen to a rollover accident on Whitefish Stage Road north of Reserve Drive Sunday afternoon. The driver called his mother from inside the wreck, stating that he was not injured but could not get out of the vehicle.
A call for a man lying in the road on Montana 35 was canceled when it was determined that the man was only changing a tire.
Whitefish ambulance took a teenage girl to North Valley Hospital Sunday after she fought with people in her house and put her arm through a window.
Whitefish ambulance, the Whitefish fire department and Flathead Electric Cooperative sent crewmen to the 300 block of Antelope Trail when a power pole fell over. FEC, along with the Columbia Falls fire department, also responded to a partially down line in the 1100 block of Nucleus Avenue.