Law Roundup
Kalispell police
A boy who dialed a random number to make a prank call picked the wrong target. The man he allegedly made death threats to was an off-duty cop, and Kalispell police officers paid the prankster a visit.
A 15-year-old boy was caught shoplifting at a jewelry store.
A 22-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of unlawful transaction with a child, and the 20-year-old man for whom he'd bought the booze was arrested on suspicion of being a minor in possession.
Police arrested a man during a traffic stop on suspicion of driving without insurance, fictitious plates and being a habitual offender.
A 40-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol.
Officers told the man sitting on a picnic table and staring into the fast-food restaurant that he would be arrested for criminal trespass unless he left.
A man was arrested during a traffic stop on suspicion of possessing drugs and drug paraphernalia.
A man who'd left his mom's locked car at a bar Friday evening reported it stolen the next day.
A big man with a dark coat and a big, dark bag aroused suspicions by peeping into a camper-trailer's windows on West Nicklaus.
A toddler wandered into a fitness club Saturday morning. Eight minutes later, a woman baby-sitting at a nearby house reported her 3-year-old grandson missing.
A plastic mailbox, valued at $30, was stolen on Fifth Avenue East.
On Sixth Avenue East-North, $400 in cash and business checks was stolen.
Columbia Falls police
Columbia Falls police arrested a 23-year-old man in connection with his fourth drunk-driving charge, a felony.
An espresso booth was burglarized Friday night.
Flathead County sheriff
Burglars stole cash from four coffee kiosks Saturday - two in Bigfork and two along U.S. 2 in Kalispell. At press time, Flathead County sheriff's deputies did not know the total amount taken and had not made any arrests. The thieves left evidence behind in at least one kiosk.
A 16-year-old boy was caught shoplifting at an Evergreen box store. A man and girl were caught shoplifting at a nearby box store two hours later.
Two boys were arrested on suspicion of shoplifting when they tried to leave a grocery store without paying for the pair of 50-cent doughnuts they'd eaten.
Neighbors in Marion quarreled over a road easement.
After arguing about finances with a man, a woman sped away in her vehicle, running over his foot in the process. He wasn't seriously injured, and deputies aren't certain she was aware she'd done it.
A Kila caller said bullets from a neighbor's gun were whizzing by, about five feet away. A deputy counseled the shooter on safe shooting practices.
The woman wasn't injured when her vehicle went into the ditch Friday night, but she was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol.
A Maple Drive man said his neighbors are driving through his driveway without permission.
A woman said her ex-boyfriend threatened to destroy her parents' vehicles.
A pair of drivers chased each other down Batavia Lane before one ran into the other. They were arrested on suspicion of DUI.
Two underage drinkers were arrested in Whitefish. Another was arrested at a home in Kalispell.
A would-be three-wheeler thief was apprehended when deputies followed the ATV's tracks in the fresh snow to the alleged thief's house. The vehicle's owner decided not to press charges when he discovered the thief was his employee, but the man went to jail anyway on drug charges.
Someone reported receiving death threats via voicemail from a female caller.
A robbery was reported at a Columbia Falls Stage residence.
A man in a pickup stopped to urinate in a Bigfork driveway before continuing on his way.
A man confronted his intoxicated wife at a Kalispell restaurant about her drinking and gambling habits. He allegedly shoved her a couple of times but did not injure her. A deputy called the woman a taxi so she could spend the rest of the day with a friend.
A Lake County man said the Columbia Falls man who bought his ATV sold it to another person without paying him for it first. The incident was turned over to the Lake County Sheriff's Office.
A man called from a Columbia Falls trailer park to report that a man had assaulted him five minutes ago and currently was choking him.
Alarms
The Kalispell Fire Department went to a grass fire Friday evening on College Avenue. It didn't take long to get everything under control; all units were clear within 17 minutes.
Whitefish ambulance took a teenager with possible alcohol poisoning to the hospital early Saturday morning.
The odor of natural gas led to a furniture store's evacuation Saturday morning. The Evergreen Fire Department responded, as did Northwestern Energy.