Kalispell police

Kalispell police took a woman into custody under the mental health act after she allegedly tried to burn down her house and injured a man who stopped her.

She then reportedly led police on a vehicle chase through town before she was stopped and taken to the hospital.

An officer talked to three boys about the wisdom of playing Frisbee in traffic on Fifth Avenue East.

Police were called when an argument on Begg Park Drive escalated.

On Ninth Street West, a woman in a pink sweatshirt seemed to be wandering and disoriented, according to a concerned witness.

A man reported that someone banged on his door and then people in a purple truck watched him from a vacant parking lot.

The truck occupants were just a woman and her two children who had been picking cherries.

A panhandler was unwelcome at Sykes'; a basketball player is unwelcome at Russell School, where he has been asked to leave before.

At Woodland Park, a man called for help, saying his friends fell down the hill and one was unconscious and the other couldn't feel his legs. An officer found five intoxicated transients and gave them 30 minutes to pack up their camp and leave.

Someone reported a truck with a camper containing two or three men with a shotgun or rifle at the courthouse. An officer found the weapon is a BB gun and the men are illegal aliens. The immigration department was notified.

A woman reported that her ex-husband threatened her. Another woman said a neighbor yells vulgarities at her and her children and threatens her children. On Sixth Avenue East, a woman complained about a man bothering her and asking inappropriate questions. A man denied making threatening calls to another man from a bar.

At Coot Court, a man intervened when a pit bull terrorized a woman and children.

A man was arrested at the mall for criminal mischief and underage alcohol possession. Two men were charged with theft at Flathead Industries.

At 4 a.m., a resident asked for a motel voucher because he thought he saw a dangerous hobo spider in his home. The police don't have vouchers for spider crises.

An ungovernable teen was reported on First Avenue West.

A menagerie of carved wooden animals was stolen from a home on East Nicklaus.

A woman is accused of stealing two truckloads of property from a moving sale on East Wyoming Street.