Flathead County Sheriff

The Flathead County Sheriff's Office took a call at 2 a.m. Tuesday about rafters overdue from the Flathead River. Three men had left at noon and were due back by 9 p.m. Monday, according to a relative. She wasn't sure where they had planned to go. Deputies, a Glacier Park ranger and the ALERT helicopter began a search. By 3:30 a.m., ALERT, with its spotlight and night-vision goggles, found the trio camped with their raft just above Coal Creek on the Middle Fork of the Flathead River, near Stanton Creek Lodge.

"They ran out of daylight," said deputy Tom Snyder, search and rescue coordinator. "They did the smart thing" by stopping when it was too dark to see rough water. Where they beached was too swampy to try to walk out, so the men stayed put. They were unhurt when ALERT picked them up, Snyder said.

Trespassers were reported at the old Fenders restaurant.

A son's words to his father on Jensen Road were that he would "take him out." Threats were also made at Glacier Produce.

Screens were cut on a garage near Columbia Falls. Windows were shot out of a vehicle on Halfmoon Road and on Tamarack Lane. A prowler was reported on Taylor Road.

Four underage drinkers were arrested.

There was some hollering and some mobile-home damaging done on Springdale Drive.

In Hungry Horse, someone was concerned after seeing a van with a screaming man following a crying woman. A neighbor who drove off with a girl on Conrad Drive soon returned her, unharmed.

Fires were reported on Blaine View Drive and Alpine Court. They were found to not be illegal.

Teenagers at Foy's Lake beach were just swimming, not drinking, as suspected. There was a report of between 20 and 25 people outside Wal-Mart at 3 a.m., when there was the sound of tin breaking and people running through the entrance. However, there was no sign that anything like that had happened.,

A woman was called to pick up her roommate near the Blue Moon at about 2 a.m. For her trouble, the roommate yelled accusations at her and jumped out of the vehicle.

Luggage was stolen at the airport. A purse stolen from Stage Ridge Road was found later in a trash container. A loaned green Chevy truck was reported stolen at Wal-Mart. Medication was stolen from a lunch box near Columbia Falls. Someone reportedly took trees and did some damage at Eagle Bend. Cash was stolen from a business. A man said jewelry and coins vanished from his home while he was in jail.

On Peck Road, a pit bull killed a poodle and bit a teenager.