Flathead County

The Flathead County Sheriff's Office denied a request by a man who is temporarily out of state. He said he had called a wrecker to tow a van from his house and asked an officer to go inside and find the title and keys for the vehicle. Turns out the man is divorcing and wanted to take the vehicle from his wife. Officers declined to participate in that activity.

Disturbances were reported on Flathead Drive, where a family disturbance was short on brotherly love; on Riverside Drive, where a neighbor allegedly cut down a fence in an ongoing easement dispute; at Kokanee Bend, where a man wanted his wife removed; at McDonald's in Evergreen, where kids pandered for beer at the drive-through; and on Shady Lane Drive, where a resident was reportedly pushed down stairs by a roommate.

At the Homestead Cafe, someone was suspicious of a "wide" woman with a young girl. The woman was not well-dressed, but the girl was. Fearing a kidnapping, the witness also thought that the car they were driving didn't look like "what they should be in." The pair actually got into a different car and a deputy found no reason to suspect anything amiss.

A gun was stolen on Eight Mile Road, along with a T-shirt with an Alabama Crimson Tide logo. A 1994 red GMC truck was stolen on Elias Lane.

Tools were stolen from construction sites on Montana 206 and in Evergreen. A compressor was stolen on Montana 35.

On Truman Creek Road, a motion detector sounded an alarm Monday. A deputy found that a shed had been unlocked to access a lawnmower and someone had mowed the lawn, unless it was one of those supremely self-powered mowers.

Creston and Kalispell fire departments were dispatched to a home Monday morning when a child got her head stuck in some exercise equipment. She was safely extricated.

A bear on Birch Grove Road broke down a bird feeder. More destructive were the people who bashed mailboxes around the valley.

Loose llamas were reported on U.S. 2, blithely unaware that they were two driveways away from a place called the Hitching Post.

Renters allegedly took a drill and logging chains as a memento of their time spent on Ganz Road.

Behind the King's bar in Bigfork, someone saw a man come out of the woods who matched the body type of a bank robber in Bigfork last week. He wasn't found.