Flathead County Sheriff

The Flathead County Sheriff's Office was called Wednesday by a resident who saw a suspicious vehicle that kept driving around her property. She wanted a deputy to check it out. The suspicious vehicle was a deputy's patrol car, in the neighborhood to work on an earlier complaint from a different resident.

Among the items that thieves were moved to take were a CB radio, stereo, CB antenna, and duck waders taken from trucks at Montana Village; a purse that was emancipated from a shopping cart at Super 1 Foods; alcohol and movies relocated from a home in Hungry Horse; and tools that no longer call Vonderheide Lane home.

Sometimes, it isn't what's missing that causes concern; it's what shows up. A "suspicious" cooler appeared at the train depot near Whitefish. It turned out to contain a mostly harmless lunch.

A parent called to say a boy broke her son's finger when they got off a bus near Columbia Falls.

Ex-boyfriends made their ex-status clear by allegedly stalking one woman and calling her at her home and job, by breaking into another woman's vehicle on U.S. 2, and by showing up at a home on Willow Glen Drive and not leaving. That man was later arrested, at gunpoint because he was reported to have a gun, and was charged with partner assault.

An unwelcome bar boomerang caused trouble at Chumley's, left, returned, and left again before officers could find him.

Three bears appeared on a deck on Winter Hawk Road. A game warden was notified.

A Caroline Point Road resident wasn't duped by the caller who said he has her bank account number and wanted to verify that it belongs to her. She immediately closed her account.