Deputies Tase alleged pick-wielder

Flathead County sheriff's deputies had to use a Taser to subdue a 21-year-old man on Hungry Horse Boulevard Saturday night. Friends reported he'd had a seizure, but he was recovered when ambulance workers arrived. That's when he allegedly grabbed a pick and got combative. He reportedly headed toward a woman with the pick, so ambulance workers called for law officers. Deputies calmed him down by talking for quite a while, but then he got agitated and tried to get back into a house where he scuffled with a deputy. That's when he was Tased before being taken into custody.

Partner assault charges were lodged against a man after he allegedly tried to strangle his wife late Saturday. The woman told deputies they had just gotten married that day.

A 9-year-old boy reportedly was assaulted and had his cell phone taken by three other boys on an Evergreen elementary school grounds.

Huckleberry bushes are hard to pull yourself away from, at least for the woman who still was gone three hours after her expected return Saturday. But she turned up a couple hours later in a search along the Hungry Horse Reservoir.

Hoffman Draw was the site of animal abandonment when people moved out and left a goat and chickens behind. An animal warden followed up with food and water.

A restaurant employee reportedly caused a disturbance over a married man, so deputies talked with the wife out in the parking lot. At another Evergreen restaurant, it was an ex-boyfriend allegedly stalking a woman and her new fiance.Although he claimed he was assaulted by a group of people at a house near a convenience store on Montana 35 East, the man couldn't recall just where that house was.

Father and son were drinking, deputies reported. They got angry and threatened each other. Instead of carrying out those threats, they just decided to sleep it off.

Not only did a truck owner get his possessions back after somebody stole them from the vehicle, the report from early Saturday went, but there was an extra radio among the returned loot. It may have been from another theft near Evergreen.

Two four-wheelers were reported stolen from a house in West Glacier. On Somerset Drive, a black utility trailer was reported stolen.

Deputies received 174 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Kalispell police charged a man in wedding attire with theft of lost or mislaid property after a Main Street hotel worker reported the be-suited man had a white traffic cone in the hotel with him.

Police were called to an RV fire on South Meadows Drive Saturday night. The owner was driving the rig when it stalled and caught fire, police reported.

Rowdiness and a man's refusal to leave the hospital's emergency area warranted a call to police Saturday afternoon. He finally left, with a little assistance.

Road rage led to an allegation that a man pulled a black revolver on another driver before the supposedly gun-brandishing driver pulled off into a residential area. Police said it was unfounded; there was no weapon.

The grass at the home on 10th Street East looks like it will grow back, even though a jacked-up truck peeled out across a neighbor's lawn and jumped the curb before almost hitting the caller's vehicle.

Urinating on Dumpsters at Third and Main earned one man a disorderly conduct charge.

There was a loud explosion on Glacier Street Sunday morning. Five minutes later the power went out. Flathead Electric workers were on the way. Police found the alleged culprit right beneath the power line - a dead squirrel.

An 11-year-old boy was found on the ground in an alley behind a local TV station after apparently crashing his bicycle. He was fine and wanted to leave. He probably wishes his rescuers had allowed that, because police charged him with a tobacco violation.

There was nothing unsafe about a man using a bow to shoot arrows at his garage on Eighth Avenue West.

Maybe she was just smelling the roses, because a woman who was reported lying in flower beds at a business was gone when police arrived.

Officers received 71 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Columbia Falls police got a call from a woman on Third Avenue East saying that both her dogs suddenly died Saturday. She suspected poisoning, but police couldn't follow up because she already had buried the dogs.

Officers received 33 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Whitefish police arrested four men from Canada, ages 23, 22 and two of them 21. Each was charged with criminal mischief and criminal trespass after apparently trying to jump off the roof of a Central Avenue business an hour after the bars closed early Sunday.

Officers received 32 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.