Deputies recover stolen gun

Flathead County sheriff's deputies recovered a gun stolen 23 years ago in Missoula. It was purchased by an unsuspecting buyer at the Kalispell gun show earlier this month. To play it safe, the man who purchased the gun called deputies and asked them to check the serial number. It came back as stolen, and the man was forced to turn it over to the authorities. He is only 20 years old, and thus not a suspect in the theft, investigators said.

Pink binoculars were stolen from an unlocked car on Kokanee Bend, the seventh reported theft from an unlocked vehicle on that road in the past four days. Deputies would like to remind the residents of Flathead County to lock their cars and take valuable items with them.

A woman, her son, and her daughter got into a three-way argument on Dorothy Street.

A man who said he was from Fargo, N.D., and had a brain injury threatened to kill somebody somewhere, eh?

Deputies broke up a fight between two men, both set on possessing the same item recovered from the Columbia Falls dump.

A woman reported a case of road rage on Pheasant Drive when a truck came up behind her, flashed his lights, and then sped around her car after she pulled into the driving lane and slowly accelerated.

A woman on Eighth Avenue East called deputies after her car disappeared. She wasn't sure whether it was gone because her runaway grandson needed a ride or whether the mechanic scheduled to perform some maintenance picked it up.

A fence was knocked down by a four-wheeler in Haywire Gulch.

An ungovernable youth on Bernard Road became governable with a phone call from deputies.

Another ungovernable youth was reported on Lost Creek Drive. The 17-year-old boy was throwing things and swearing.

A 27-year-old man was arrested on Pleasant View Drive on suspicion of misdemeanor partner assault after leaving bruises on his wife's torso. He was taken to Kalispell Regional Medical Center because he was depressed.

A 52-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of drug possession and criminal endangerment after giving her 14-year-old niece prescription drugs. The girl's mother wasn't happy with her sister's decision and called deputies.