Kalispell police

Kalispell police referred to the Secret Service a case of a man who was scammed out of $28,000 in an Internet fraud involving phony riches from Nigeria. Variations of the scam have been around for years, but Police Chief Frank Garner said people still occasionally fall for it. "It surprises me," he said. In this case, a con artist sent a 23-year-old Kalispell man a $38,000 check that he deposited at a banking institution and then returned $28,000, as agreed. He was to keep $10,000. Instead, the $38,000 check was no good, and he's responsible for the $28,000.

"If it sounds too good to be true, it is. It's not that it probably is. None of these are true - zero," Garner said.

Officers checked out a report of a man beating a woman in a car on Claremont Street, but the couple said they were only wrestling. Police contacted a woman after a friend reported that the woman's boyfriend was beating her and trying to kill her. She did not want to cooperate with an officer.

A theft was reported at Chicken Noodle Cafe.

A mother called police after catching her 13-year-old daughter smoking a cigarette in a restaurant restroom. A woman set a poor example for a young boy at Finnegan's, where they ate and then left without paying.

Police are investigating the appearance of musical instruments and sound equipment after it reportedly was stolen from a band trailer in Las Vegas. Guitars, drums, amps and other equipment reportedly were sold in Kalispell. About $45,000 worth of equipment is missing.

Threatening and harassing calls were reported on 10th Avenue West.

A couple separated after a woman reported that a man was pinning her down and yelling at her on Bluestone Drive.

At Underpass Hill, it looked like a white Chevy pickup hit the highway wall and two people appeared to be fighting. The entire road show was gone when an officer arrived.

At Finnegan's, a man was seeing going in and out of a vehicle through the window and urinating in the parking lot. The vehicle turned out to belong to a friend of his, who didn't mind what he was doing.

A couple of boys asked for help finding their parents at a golf course, so they were allowed to use a golf cart to locate them. It turned out their parents weren't there at all and the boys just used the vehicle to rip around on the golf course.