He fought the law - guess who won?
Flathead County sheriff’s deputies arrested a man on suspicion of felony assault and being an accessory to theft at an Evergreen discount box store Sunday afternoon. His girlfriend allegedly shoplifted some items and was apprehended by store security, then the man reportedly assaulted the officer.
The man walking along Montana 35 East near a tavern prompted concern for his welfare. Deputies report he was intoxicated.
The person who sold a puppy this summer to another person heard that it was thrown off a balcony at its new home. Someone had taken it to an animal clinic, so the animal warden will check on it today.
Three or four apparently intoxicated men were fighting outside an apartment on Montana 35 early Sunday, but went inside and refused to come out when deputies arrived.
Even though the person on Wolf Creek Drive thought somebody was in the house, deputies determined that the person was hallucinating while undergoing detox.
A disturbance outside a bar at U.S. 93 and Montana 40 ended with deputies talking to the combatants.
Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials caught a man allegedly hunting illegally along Kuzmic Lake by Coram. A bear was seen off and on all weekend on Box Elder Lane by Columbia Falls. On Bachelor Grade Road, a deer that had been shot but not killed by a hunter wandered on to private property before dying.
The man reportedly lying under a tree just inside the entrance to Conrad Cemetery was gone when deputies arrived.
A man visiting a pawn shop found his own items that had been stolen.
Deputies received 97 calls for service from 3:30 p.m. Saturday to 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Kalispell police arrested a man for resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, obstructing an officer, having an expired vehicle registration, having no driver’s license and having no insurance after a traffic stop Saturday afternoon at Meridian Drive and U.S. 93 North.
A 22-year-old man was arrested for felony criminal endangerment and assault with a weapon near a supermarket on Third Avenue and Idaho just after midnight. Police charged two boys as well.
A man reportedly was assaulted and left unconscious at an Airport Road casino early Sunday, then the suspect tried to leave in a pickup. He was stopped. Neither of the parties wanted to press charges, both refused transport to a hospital and the driver’s keys were taken to the police station.
Police stepped up patrol at a home Saturday night after a man reportedly assaulted somebody, causing injuries that required treatment at the hospital.
Occupants of a passing car sprayed the sidewalk at a Main Street business with BBs at midnight, hitting but not injuring people there.
A man called police when his son, reported as a runaway juvenile, showed up at a fast-food restaurant. The boy was arrested and released to his mother’s custody.
An alarm that sounded at the old post office required a perimeter check, but all appeared secure Saturday evening.
Police arrested a woman for allegedly violating a restraining order on Eighth Avenue West.
The fight behind a Second Street East bar turned out to be an argument in the parking lot among three people.
An argument between a man and woman behind a restaurant on U.S. 93 attracted attention Saturday night. It attracted police intervention about 10 minutes later when they moved to a nearby business’s parking lot. They were sent on their separate ways.
Fights reportedly have broken out after teen night at a Sunnyview Lane health club the last two weeks, so police ran extra patrol there late Saturday.
The person who forgot his key and, with music blaring, pounded on an apartment door on Third Avenue West early Sunday, was told to keep it down.
Two explosions and bright lights that somebody reportedly heard Sunday morning on Valley View Drive could not be traced to their origin.
Somebody stole $160 from a woman’s purse, she told police, and she thinks she knows who. A man loaned a gun to a friend and now can’t get it returned; it’s a matter for civil action, police told the gun owner.
Officers received 90 calls for service from 3:30 p.m. Saturday to 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Columbia Falls police officers broke up a house party where minors were present on Fourth Avenue West about midnight. A 19-year-old man was arrested on a Montana Highway Patrol warrant, an 18-year-old man was arrested for being a minor in possession, and two boys and one girl were arrested for being minors in possession.
Another 19-year-old man was spotted walking along Fourth Avenue West on Sunday by somebody who knew he had warrants out for his arrest. Police took him into custody on a warrant for partner or family member assault, and another warrant issued by the city court.
Officers received 26 calls for service from 3:30 p.m. Saturday to 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Whitefish police got a report from a downtown bar patron who said somebody put something in her drink Saturday night, and then sexually assaulted her. She suspected something when she awoke in her home and found a man there.
Nobody was taken to the hospital after a reported assault at a Central Avenue bar early Sunday.
Officers received 23 calls for service from 3:30 p.m. Saturday to 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Alarms
Whitefish ambulance took an elderly woman from Pine Avenue to North Valley Hospital after she fell early Sunday.
Somers Fire Department went to a chimney fire Sunday morning, but nothing else caught fire.
Kalispell firefighters were called for a smoldering garbage can at 12th Street and Third Avenue West Sunday morning. Nothing was burned.