Lakeside

A third Lakeside business received e-mails threatening retaliation if the proprietors didn't give the sender money. Flathead County sheriff's deputies are investigating the alleged extortion. Authorities asked that anyone who receives such an e-mail report it and ignore the threats.

A Scenic Ridge Road resident told deputies his wife was receiving crude phone calls from some man.

A camera was taken from an unlocked vehicle on Conrad Drive.

A medium-sized cow moose was spotted eating the bushes outside a Dawn Drive residence.

A resident of a trailer park on Montana 35 came in to the Sheriff's Office to report a theft.

A man, who had been drinking, refused to leave a Bigfork sandwich shop until deputies sent him on his way after checking to see whether he were wanted anywhere.

A man reported being assaulted by another man at a trailer park on Shady Lane. Deputies met the reporting party at a gas station on Montana 35, found the other man involved, and determined the "victim" actually was the aggressor.

A Farm-to-Market Road resident told deputies he wanted the person driving a snowmobile across his property warned about trespassing.

A Conrad Drive resident told deputies she was receiving harassing phone calls from her credit-card companies.

A Ridgewood Drive woman who trapped a cat was advised to take it to the animal shelter. The woman replied that she would just kill it. When dispatchers told her they would send an officer to her home to retrieve it, she decided to take the cat to the shelter herself.

A cat found dead in the middle of West Reserve Drive was gone when officers arrived.