Woman reports destructive car thief
Flathead County sheriff's deputies took a report from a woman who said somebody stole her vehicle overnight, hit a deer with it, and then brought the vehicle back.
Two men fighting at a trailer court on Ridgewood Drive Saturday evening resulted in a call for deputies. But the instigator had left when they arrived, and the victim refused medical treatment.
Property stolen from a local sporting-goods store may have turned up in Missoula. Detectives are investigating.
What sounded like someone around a trailer on Whitefish Stage Road at midnight turned out to be empty silence when deputies arrived. At Bitterroot Lions Camp, it was the alleged screamer for help who could not be located.
Tires were slashed outside a Martin City saloon Saturday night.
Deputies received 127 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Kalispell police are investigating after a 14-year-old boy was hit by a four-door, light tan Plymouth driven by a woman near Imperial Dry Cleaning shortly after 7:30 p.m. Saturday. The driver left the scene. The boy went by ambulance to the hospital to treat his back and rib pain.
Just before 10 p.m., a police officer called for another officer after the officer turned a corner in his car and bumped a person walking at Second and Main. The pedestrian reportedly was unhurt and didn't want to file a complaint.
A Ford southbound on Whitefish Stage turned slowly into oncoming traffic, drove onto the grass at Edgerton School, and then continued to a house on East Oregon. Officers talked with him at his home and decided he was not drunk, nor had he damaged the school's lawn.
A man went to jail and his keys went to a friend after the driver was arrested for DUI.
Two men reportedly bought alcohol for two underage girls waiting in their car at an East Idaho supermarket.
Profanities, even when shouted from a car, are inappropriate, the officer warned offenders at Sixth Street and Main Saturday night. Sunday afternoon, the cursing was aimed at vehicles by a man walking west on Center Street.
A pickup driving headlight-less on U.S. 93 was stopped and warned.
The caller thought it was five gunshots about 11 p.m. A neighbor on Ponderosa Street heard no shots but thought there had been fireworks earlier.
Officers went to the same bar on Airport Road twice early Sunday - first for the loud bass that was sharing unwanted music through the walls with a neighbor, then for a man whose jacket with keys allegedly was stolen. Officers found the lost jacket and took the keys to the station; the bar patron worked on getting a ride home.
Beef jerky was recovered from an alleged thief at a convenience store on U.S. 2 West, but the employee suspected more items may have been hidden in his clothing.
A man stopped on West Idaho was charged with DUI, driving with a suspended license and having an inoperative headlamp, and was held on a Highway Patrol warrant.
Two men shoving each other outside a U.S. 93 South bar drew a crowd of a dozen people before police dispersed them and discovered the main agitator had left.
Police separated the intoxicated woman from a father and daughter she had been yelling at behind a hotel on U.S. 93 South early Sunday.
A very nicely dressed couple didn't appear to be registered at the Main Street hotel, but they passed out in several locations inside the establishment.
The mountain bike found in a ditch at Hawthorn and Glenwood was a Giant, the caller said.
Broken flower pots, plants and a plastic lawn chair were among the items littering a First Avenue West business's parking lot Sunday morning.
Officers received 85 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Whitefish police went to Whitefish Middle School shortly before 6 p.m. Saturday after a complaint that people were mooning traffic going by on Spokane and Second Street. They discovered several guys sitting backward on a park bench had let their low-rider pants get a bit too low.
A backpack was reported stolen from a Central Avenue hardware store.
It was a half-hour before midnight when somebody complained of young people at Fourth and Columbia laughing, jumping and sliding on vehicles parked on the street.
Police still are investigating a break-in and possible burglary at an East Second Street home reported Sunday morning.
Somebody at a Wisconsin Avenue lodge reported he'd left his door open when he left, then suspected his things were missing when he returned. He did not know what was taken.
Officers received 27 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Columbia Falls police arrested a 25-year-old woman on a Highway Patrol warrant after she came to the police station to bail her boyfriend out of jail.
Two more warrants for one 25-year-old man ended with his arrest Saturday for drug possession and drug paraphernalia possession.
Two traffic stops resulted in two DUI arrests, one for a 49-year-old woman and the other for a 44-year-old man.
Officers received 103 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Alarms
Bigfork ambulance took a patient to the hospital after the person consumed too much alcohol Saturday night.
A plane having problems about 45 minutes before it could land at Glacier Park International Airport prompted ALERT helicopter, Columbia Falls and Evergreen fire department volunteers, and Glacier Park International workers to stage for an emergency landing. But the aircraft landed without mishap.
Kalispell Fire Department ambulance went to an East Idaho supermarket shortly after 7 p.m. Saturday for a patient with chest and back pain. At 10:30 p.m. they went to a U.S. 93 South casino for a sick patient.