Kalispell police
Kalispell police made a trip to Department of Family Services on Monday morning after a woman who was worried about her daughter and grandson called the station. She had returned home from work Sunday morning to find her daughter and 5-year-old grandson gone, and blood "all over inside the house." She was concerned for her daughter and worried that the boy's father might have taken him. Monday, she found the father's pickup parked outside a local motel and called police.
Police arrested a 33-year-old man for his fifth DUI about 1 a.m. Monday. They gave his companion a ride home.
Somebody thought it was odd to find two people and a dog asleep inside a car parked in an alley Sunday morning, so they knocked on the purple Nissan's window to see if they were OK. Nobody woke up except the dog.
Barking, not sleeping, dogs were a problem on Third Avenue East in the wee hours of Monday morning.
The cleaning lady at the U.S. Forest Service didn't think much about the open gate when she arrived Sunday night. But after she cleaned the offices and left, she found the gate's shattered lock and debris on the ground. She called police.
A mean-spirited driver gave "small change" new meaning by snatching the tip jar in the City Brew drive-through twice on Sunday. The first time, the thief got about $2.50. The second time, it was about $4.
The front door was unlocked and things were "all messed up" at the Dollar Plus Store when an employee got to work Monday morning.
People behaved badly in Kalispell Sunday afternoon. A downstairs resident pushed down a woman's daughter and grandson at their home, and a tenant threatened a woman at work.
A driver in a dirty white pickup left his Social Security card at Michael's Exxon, along with a promise to return in 10 minutes, when he couldn't pay the $54.50 he owed for fuel. A half-hour later, the clerk called police.
A Saab was broken into over the weekend, and a Toyota hood was dented after somebody tried to pry it open.
Two coats went missing from the Christian Center Sunday.