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The Flathead County Sheriffs Office

| October 28, 2005 1:00 AM

The Flathead County Sheriffs Office dispatched the Kalispell Fire Departments ambulance Thursday to a home where a woman was said to be in active labor and refusing to go the hospital because she would test positive for drugs. The ambulance was rerouted to another call when Kalispell police learned that the report was false. The woman had given birth the night before and was at the hospital with her newborn.

Another unfounded report came from Seville Lane, where a woman said she returned home to hear people upstairs in her house. She was armed and calling to intruders to come down. Deputies found there was no one in the home.

An elderly woman who parked her vehicle in the middle of Montana 35 had moved on before a deputy arrived. Another woman reportedly rammed a vehicle at the Woodland Qwik Stop gas station.

A search was launched for a 5-year-old girl missing on Orchard Ridge Road. She was quickly found.

There is a suspect in the theft of a 2004 Yamaha motorcycle on Trumble Creek Road. A vehicle stolen in Washington was found on Coram Stage Road.

A report of a mountain lion on Spotted Bear Road was referred to a game warden.

There were two complaints of loud music on Youngs Lane, where a birthday party was under way. Other revelers on Fehlberg agreed to keep down the noise at about 1 a.m.

A witness reported a suspicious van outside a food bank with something that looked like a big carcass in it. Thats exactly what it was, and it was donated to the food bank.

At 3 a.m., a man called from Montana Village to say hed hurt his ankle earlier in the day and had no way to get to the hospital. A deputy gave him a ride. He called an hour later to say he was on crutches at the hospital and needed a ride home. A deputy chauffeured him and even helped him into his house.

Construction equipment was stolen at North Country Auto. Same thing on Lion Mountain Road.

An assault was reported on McMannamy Draw, and a sexual assault upon a child was reported.

A driver who aroused suspicion by lurking around a neighborhood turned to be a Department of Labor investigator looking into a workers compensation claim.

Glasses and other items vanished from a vehicle on Mallard Loop. A marauding lumberjack was caught for the second time, cutting down trees on private property.