Law roundup
Hooky-bobbing still is frowned upon, a 37-year-old man found out Saturday night. A Whitefish police officer driving slowly along Central Avenue noticed a man walk out of a bar and begin to cross the street behind the patrol car, then drop out of sight. Turns out he had ducked down, grabbed the bumper and was getting a free ride. He was arrested for disorderly conduct.
Officers received 20 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Flathead Electric Cooperative reported that Friday night’s power outage west of Kalispell was caused when a fuse blew out in the West Valley substation about 5:30 p.m. Some 1,500 customers lost their electricity. Most of the power was restored by 9 p.m. but a few who live near the end of the line didn’t get power again until closer to 11 p.m. Cause of the blown fuse remains unknown.
Flathead County sheriff’s deputies are investigating serial thievery at a bar in Bigfork early Sunday. Someone reportedly went through the bar and stole wallets, keys, cash and purses that belonged to three separate victims.
Several traffic accidents were attributed to Saturday’s snowfall. Four miles south of Lakeside, deputies said the people inside a Suburban that rolled off U.S. 93 onto its top remained safe because their seat belts were buckled. On Montana 40 near the bridge west of Columbia Falls, a driver slid off the road and sideswiped a tree.
A pit bull broke through the ice and fell into Spring Creek off Bernard Road Sunday afternoon. After struggling for some time, the dog got out and ran off along the road.
Damage to a door and a phone were the upshot of an argument between a man and woman on Dodd Avenue. He left before officers arrived.
Vehicles in the impoundment lot at a towing company on Trumble Creek Road north of Kalispell were broken into and had items stolen from inside.
Someone passed a counterfeit $100 bill at a fast-food restaurant in Evergreen Sunday morning. Another fake $100 bill came through the same restaurant chain’s location on East Idaho in Kalispell. Detectives are investigating.
Two boys were tracked down for parole violation and taken to juvenile detention in separate incidents Saturday night, one at Trumble Creek Road and Rose Crossing and the other by a hotel on U.S. 93 South.
Participants in a fight in progress at a Coram bar on U.S. 2 had vamoosed by the time deputies showed up early Sunday.
An intoxicated husband came home to South Many Lakes Drive about midnight. His wife was not happy. He slept elsewhere.
Snowplows and mailboxes had encounters in at least a couple places. The mailboxes lost.
Two dogs found at the intersection of West Evergreen Drive and Nicklaus Avenue, and another dog found near the Humane Society along U.S. 93 north of Kalispell were taken to the county animal shelter Sunday.
On Mackinaw Loop in Somers, a man sitting in a little gray car for two hours seemed suspicious. He’d left when deputies arrived.
Deputies received 162 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
After a very intoxicated man staggered into a pizza restaurant Saturday afternoon and then back out to his car in the parking lot, Kalispell police were called. He was arrested on suspicion of his third DUI, resisting arrest and obstructing a police officer. But he first got a ride to the hospital to check out his report of shoulder pain.
Accidents were in bountiful supply across the city, with Saturday’s snowfall and wind. The driver of a Chevy S10 pickup called to report he had rear-ended a Hamilton Broncos school bus a little after 3:30 p.m. One SUV hit a street sign and possibly sideswiped a truck on Airport Road.
A man called to say his mother had just tripped him, causing him to fall down a set of stairs. He was uninjured, but admitted both had been drinking and she just left the home on foot. She was found almost two hours later, passed out at an address just up the street. Police took her back home and left her in the care of a sober woman there.
Police could not locate the dog which a caller near Sherry Lane and Sunset Court reported was freezing to death. She could hear it from her location.
It remains a mystery: Who threw that alternator through a window on Airport Road, and why?
A speeding, headlight-less snowmobile was a hazard at 10th Avenue West and Fourth Street late Saturday.
Police checked into a report of a possible underage party at a hotel on U.S. 93 South and ended up arresting one girl.
Two purses were reported stolen, both from casinos early Sunday and both containing substantial amounts of money, credit cards and other items. One had three paychecks in it.
A guy stole a case of beer from a West Idaho convenience store early Sunday.
Police counseled a man who reportedly acted inappropriately in front of children sledding at the Dry Bridge Gulch Park Sunday afternoon.
Officers received 53 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Columbia Falls police checked into a report that someone stole a purse from a vehicle on Seventh Avenue West Saturday afternoon. The rig was unlocked.
Officers received 24 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Alarms
Bigfork ambulance took a patient to Kalispell Regional Medical Center after an accident a mile east of Streeter’s Corner on Montana 83 Saturday night.
Kalispell Fire Department was called to Fourth Avenue East North about 4:30 p.m. Sunday for black smoke that was pouring from a wood stove.
Kalispell ambulance went to an accident on Airport Road to treat possible injuries from deployed airbags.