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Kalispell police

| May 21, 2009 1:00 AM

A black bear was spotted just north of the Flathead County Justice Center in downtown Kalispell.

Game wardens and Kalispell police tracked the bear to the intersection of First Avenue West and 11th Street, where it had been treed.

Wardens removed the bear from the city.

The suspicious group of people on the roof of a building at the water park turned out to be high school students filming a movie for class.

A 6-year-old boy last seen in the area of a Whitefish Stage Road school was reported missing but soon found and reunited with his mother.

A man at a Center Street mall told officers a group of people on bikes followed and harassed him.

The alleged victim of a Tuesday night assault thought she saw the alleged perpetrator in an Airport Road bar.

Officers were unable to find the man who walked out of an East Idaho Street convenience store with a beer in each pocket of his pants.

Loud voices and an air horn prompted a noise complaint from a person staying at a hotel off U.S. 93 South.

A man reported his motorcycle stolen from an Airport Road bar. About $100 was stolen from a wallet at an inn on First Avenue West.

Doors on several cars parked on North Main Street were found open, but nothing appeared to be missing.

In other crimes on North Main Street, the glass in the front door of a building was smashed out and someone tried to throw a rock through the window of a Main Street business, but was only partially successful.

The door of a 10th Avenue West residence was found kicked in. The residents reportedly are out of town.

In an effort to find his lodgings, an intoxicated and apparently confused guest at a motel on U.S. 93 South tried to open the locked door to the employee break room.

Officers received 73 calls for service between 2:30 p.m. Tuesday and 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Flathead County sheriff

Flathead County Sheriff's deputies were called to Farm To Market Road after a motorist allegedly was spotted shooting gophers from the window of his car.

Both doors were stolen off an older model Chevrolet truck parked in the Marion area.

Deputies were called to remove a man reported for trespassing, first at an Evergreen business then at a home on South Cedar Street.

A Strawberry View Lane resident told deputies he was being threatened by a woman, who later showed up banging on his door. She also is accused of taking property out of his truck, which she later threatened to burn.

An older man was cited for trespassing after he walked into an East Evergreen Drive woman's home.

A man who met people at a Coram bar later accused them of stealing his wallet, driver's license and keys. It turns out he just had a little too much to drink and the items were found the next day.

About a dozen cars pulled into the parking lot of a sporting goods store on U.S. 2 and Montana 35 in Evergreen, reportedly for a fight. They had left before deputies arrived.

Deputies received 144 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Tuesday and 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Whitefish police

Whitefish police received 47 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Tuesday and 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Columbia Falls police

Damage was done to a business on U.S. 2. Columbia Falls police are investigating whether it is strictly vandalism or items were taken.

Money was stolen from a car on Sixth Avenue West.

Officers responded to the high school to cite two boys for the possession of tobacco and to take reports on stolen clothes and a missing wallet.

Officers received 24 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Tuesday and 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Alarms

The Kalispell Fire Department was paged out to a residence on Fourth Avenue East after smoke was spotted, but it turned out to be coming from a chimney.

The Whitefish Fire Department responded to a grocery store off Baker Avenue after a power line fell down over a vehicle.

Three Rivers EMS responded to treat a person choking on First Street West North. He was taken to North Valley Hospital.

Paramedics with the Evergreen Fire Department were dispatched Tuesday afternoon to a crash on U.S. 2. No one was seriously injured.