Family fisticuffs end in arrest
Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a 25-year-old man for family member assault after he got into a fight with his father at a Park Side Drive home early Sunday.
Two alleged shoplifters were stopped in their tracks at Evergreen discount box stores on Saturday, first a boy about 4:20 p.m. and then a man about five hours later.
Willow Glen apparently provided roadside cover for kids pelting passing vehicles with snowballs Saturday night.
At first, the firewood was reported stolen Sunday from a log mill on Pioneer Road. Then the wood was returned.
There were no arrests and no follow-up report after a husband and wife got into an altercation on Pleasant Valley Road near Marion Sunday.
An employee of a fast-food restaurant inside an Evergreen-area discount box store showed up for his paycheck Sunday but was told it was not ready. He kept hanging around, so management called for deputies. He sat and did a little reading while waiting for an officer.
Deputies received 128 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Kalispell police arrested a 24-year-old woman for escaping custody and providing alcohol to a minor, and a 16-year-old girl for using a false ID at a local pub.
He and his fiancee had been arguing when, the man told police, she threatened to break his arm and then actually did punch him in the face. She left for a store, where officers tracked her down Sunday morning and arrested her for partner assault.
A Christmas polar bear was reported missing in action from a Northridge Drive home Saturday night.
Officers stepped up patrol at a tire store after a manager found the lock cut off a storage container in the back.
It was suspicious, not to mention unnerving, when somebody tried to get in through the rear door of a business on East Idaho as a person was there cleaning Saturday evening.
What was thought to be a sewer backing up into an East California basement turned out to be a problem with the water service.
Six or seven teens reportedly hid behind a brick wall along Stillwater Road near Glacier High School Saturday night and threw snowballs at passing cars. A man whose rig got smacked by three missiles tried unsuccessfully to catch the culprits.
Workers at a U.S. 93 South supermarket spotted a woman hiding unpurchased items in her clothing, then stopped her in the store lobby. She was arrested for shoplifting.
The music was loud and the Hawthorne Street apartment dwellers had been drinking, but there was no evidence of physical violence as had been feared by a neighbor calling police.
Officers received 28 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Whitefish police spotted somebody going through a vehicle on Park Avenue early Sunday, and arrested the 21-year-old man for possession of drug paraphernalia, obstructing an officer and criminal trespass to a vehicle.
Officers received 23 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
A 19-year-old man with a shopping cart full of beer allegedly failed to pay for his merchandise before pushing it outside to the parking lot of a supermarket on Nucleus Avenue Sunday afternoon. Columbia Falls police arrested him for shoplifting.
Three vehicles were broken into Sunday afternoon. On Rapids Avenue the heater control unit was broken when the thief stole the car’s stereo and CDs in a case; the car owner said it was locked but the door is broken. Just over a half-hour later, police took reports of two other vehicles that were broken into on Riverwood Lane.
Officers received 12 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Alarms
Columbia Falls Fire Department responded to a home on Sixth Avenue East North for a natural gas smell in the furnace room Sunday around noon.