Train has some 'splainin' to do

A tow truck driver thought someone was shooting at him on East Edgewood and Second Street in Whitefish, but Flathead County sheriff's deputies didn't find a shooter. A passing train is the suspect.

A motel owner let some people stay for a couple of days without paying up front. They left early Saturday morning without paying their $500 bill.

A woman says the guy who gave her a ride home from the bar sexually assaulted her.

The man deputies pulled over was a sex offender, but the address he gave deputies was incorrect. The case has been turned over to the county attorney.

A car reported stolen in Sanders County was dropped off at a house on Antelope Trail in Whitefish. A few houses down, a vehicle was reported stolen when the buyer took it before the sale was completed.

The man and woman on East Oregon Street couldn't get along, so she left to stay with a friend on East California. Later, he showed up at the friend's house. Deputies arrested him on suspicion of partner/family member assault.

An Edgewood Drive resident found his front door forced open and ripped off its hinges and his dogs missing. He suspects a former roommate.

A caller thought the pickup in the Whitefish Depot parking lot was suspicious: It was unlocked, and the keys and some signed checks were inside.

A man punched the back of another guy's car, then decked a street-sweeper truck.

A Hubbard Dam Road evacuee returned home to find items missing from his property.

A camera and watch, together worth more than $25,000, were reported stolen from a cabin at a resort on Flathead Lake.

Building materials and a ladder were stolen from a site on Riverside Drive.

A Rhodes Draw resident found his door wide open and the burglar alarm going off. Another Rhodes Draw resident reported possible mail fraud.