Flathead County sheriff

Flathead County sheriff's deputies were alerted that youngsters were hitting other youngsters with baseball bats at a Martin City park. Mother came to the phone and said they were just yelling and no physical assault was going on.

A woman reported that another woman took her car from her Foothill Road home without her permission and rolled it on Montana 35 this morning.

A woman complained that a man with dirty blond hair and wearing a pink shirt followed her twice into the dressing room and watched while she was in the changing room. She reported that the suspect moved to the Wal-Mart parking lot.

A woman on Montana 82 discovered someone had stolen her lawnmower.

A smoke alarm caused residents to flee a home and call the Ferndale Fire Department on Wednesday morning. It turned out that a piece of toast caused all the excitement.

Deputies were called to investigate animal cruelty to four horses in a small pen near Creston Plaza. The caller said she never saw them get fed in the evening, that they never were let out for exercise and had no shelter from rain. However, the horses were chowing down when the deputy arrived. They had plenty of water and looked healthy.

A faulty emergency locator transmitter caused excitement early Wednesday morning when a signal came from Lost Johnny Creek. It was traced to a U.S. Forest Service helicopter.

Deputies responded to a report of a woman stabbing another woman on Pioneer Road early Wednesday. The caller said the assailant left with two other people in a black Camaro. Officers found the Camaro in Forest Acres but all the people were gone. A Smith and Wesson was found in the car.

A woman reported that her former foster child took $100 from her home Tuesday. She suspected the girl was at a drug dealer's house in Many Lakes.

Deputies picked up a man and charged him with trespassing after a woman reported he was breaking into her apartment on Montana 35.

Another woman on Zimmerman called from a neighbor's to complain that her husband had hurt her arm and wrist. Deputies couldn't find him, so she decided to return home.

Later, she discovered a butcher knife was missing and the telephone lines were cut. He later was found at a tavern and taken into custody.

Two people were witnessed fleeing the scene of a turned-over vehicle on West Cottonwood on Tuesday evening. Deputies searched the area for a 6-foot, 2-inch man with a black hat and red dragon tattoo on his left arm and a black, cut-off T-shirt.