Alarms

Flathead County sheriff

For some, the Pok/mon craze lives on: Flathead County sheriff's deputies arrested a 21-year-old man on suspicion of stealing trading cards, featuring the anime character, at an Evergreen box store.

While hiking the Swan River Trail, a woman spotted a man turned on by nature. She called deputies to report indecent exposure.

The woman who reported her medication had been stolen found it at home.

Kids with paintball guns splattered almost every tree and sign at Leisure Island Park.

A woman on Steel Bridge Road saw someone jump out of a vehicle but didn't see where the person went.

The "funny noise" an Eckleberry Drive resident heard at about midnight Saturday turned out to be someone bashing mailboxes.

The man walking on Montana 206 at 12:30 a.m. Saturday carrying a big, reflector-laden stick said he was looking for his chain saw.

Deputies arrested a man on suspicion of driving under the influence after his vehicle went into the ditch near Somers.

When a woman told youths in a bowling alley parking lot to leave, they did - momentarily. When they came back and started "raising Cain," she asked deputies to patrol the area.

A man and his girlfriend reportedly were chased by guys in a pickup.

A vehicle reported stolen from Rocky Cliff Drive early Saturday morning turned up a few hours later on Forest Hill Road. A few doors down from the recovered vehicle, another vehicle was stolen. As of Saturday afternoon, it hadn't been found.

Someone set fire to mail in a Batavia Lane mailbox, using mail from another box to start it.

A man suspected his neighbors were the ones who shot the windows out of the vehicle he was trying to sell. The neighbors agreed to pay for the damage.

A man who has been warned numerous times not to return to a Bigfork business was arrested when he went there Saturday morning.

Someone was trying to use a Woodland Drive resident's credit card.

Youths broke into a wrecking yard on Airport Road and broke windows out of at least 11 vehicles.

Kalispell police

Kalispell police counseled the man walking up to cars in a gas-station parking lot and staring down the occupants.

Someone did more than $3,000 worth of damage to a motor by removing the face plate and the bolt that holds it to the machine.

Neither party wanted to pursue charges in a reported domestic dispute on Liberty Street, but the 17-year-old boy involved was arrested on suspicion of being a minor in possession and a runaway juvenile.

Neighbors with loud car stereos were the subject of a complaint on Greatview Drive.

Police arrested a 29-year-old man on a warrant. He also was ticketed on suspicion of driving with a suspended license, not wearing his seat belt and driving without insurance.

A man thinks his sister-in-law is the one stealing his DVDs and CDs; he said she probably has been pawning them. A pawn shop said she had hocked seven DVDs.

A woman suspects her neighbor is selling drugs out of his residence and believes the people parking in her business lot are his customers.

Police arrested a man at a restaurant on suspicion of violating a temporary restraining order.

A Third Avenue West man who found his cat dead in a Dumpster suspects the animal was poisoned. He later called police to report a pickup had been circling the area for an hour; he believed the driver was casing the area.

Police arrested a 51-year-old man at a bar on suspicion of disorderly conduct.

Someone found an intoxicated man with a bump on his head under a tree downtown. He went to the hospital.

During a traffic stop, police arrested a 19-year-old man on suspicion of open container, having a blood-alcohol content of .02 percent and drug possession. Two other teenage boys, one of whom also was ticketed on suspicion of drug possession, were arrested on suspicion of MIP.

A gas station employee was leery of the vehicle that had been parked outside for 30 minutes. The officer who investigated found a responsible driver who didn't want to talk on the cell phone while driving.

A man tore down a street sign and used it to hit mailboxes on Second Avenue East. Vehicle windows were broken out in the area as well.

A Winward Loop resident found a man sleeping on her back porch early Saturday morning. An officer drove him to a gas station so he could call friends to try and find a ride.

The dog the neighbors were watching on Colorado Avenue was the same animal that killed his mother's dog, a caller told police.

Someone broke a white picket fence on Third Avenue East.

No one was injured when a school bus struck a pole at Flathead Valley Community College.

Police were unable to find the 10-year-old boy seen carrying what looked like a Glock pistol on Second Street West on Saturday.

Columbia Falls police

Columbia Falls police received three stolen-bike reports Saturday. Two were stolen from the Martha Road sometime Friday night. One was swiped from a thrift store on Nucleus Avenue on Saturday afternoon.

Police arrested a 68-year-old man on suspicion of driving under the influence. Later, a 24-year-old man was arrested for the same reason. He also was wanted on a warrant from another county.