Getting the jump at the Finish Line

Five guys jumped him outside the Finish Line - that's what the man told Kalispell police a little after 2 a.m. Saturday. When police and the Kalispell Fire Department ambulance arrived, however, he was nowhere to be found. No one inside had heard any sort of ruckus.

The man called a short while later to explain he hadn't wanted to chance being attacked again, so he'd walked to a friend's house on Main Street. He said he'd wait outside for officers to arrive. When they did, he berated them for taking so long to get there. The ambulance gave him a ride to the hospital.

When his wife left him at Sawbucks, where they'd been having a Christmas party, a man walked home. When he arrived, she reportedly started hitting him. He restrained her; when he let her go, she hit him again. Then she sat in her pickup truck, where officers found her. They took her to the emergency room to get her hand examined, then escorted her to jail.

A 16-year-old boy was arrested at a fast-food restaurant for possession of drug paraphernalia and minor in possession.

A man's attempt to steal a bottle of alcohol from a liquor store was unsuccessful.

A light pole in the Gateway West Cinemas parking lot was the innocent victim when a driver spinning brodies lost control of his full-sized pickup.

Someone in a dark hooded sweatshirt spent a couple of hours peering into office windows at a service station on Idaho.

On Seventh Avenue East North, a 19-year-old woman was arrested for criminal mischief and violating her probation. At the same time, a 21-year-old man was arrested for partner/family member assault.

A woman on the same street says whoever stole her checkbook has been forging checks.

When the officer who'd pulled him over for a routine traffic stop tried to arrest him for drug possession, the 19-year-old driver resisted, obstructed the officer and ended up in jail.

Someone from the emergency room reported a man there had been assaulted by someone at Sawbucks. He didn't have any serious injuries and said he didn't know who attacked him.

Police arrested a man for drunken driving.