Upset man tosses smoke detector
Flathead County sheriff
Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies responded to Montana 206 after a 37-year-old man allegedly lost his temper, took the smoke detector off the wall, and threw it at his son. When another sibling tried to intervene, the man reportedly grabbed her by the neck.
A 20-year-old man incarcerated in the Flathead County Detention Center was taken to the hospital after he began having panic attacks.
Residents on Bierney Creek Road in Lakeside and on Ardell Drive in Evergreen complained about their neighbors’ dogs running loose.
A man on Bigfork Stage Road told deputies six armed men in ski masks with six Doberman pinschers were trying to get into his house. After speaking with the man, deputies asked him to go in for a mental health evaluation.
Deputies responded to U.S. 93 south of Kalispell after a man complained he had been shot with a BB gun. The shooter reportedly was sitting in a tree and firing randomly downhill.
A woman recovering from a medical procedure complained that her parents wouldn’t let her drive to pick up her 12-year-old son because they thought she hadn’t gotten enough sleep.
Gunshots were heard in the Whitefish area, but responding deputies found nothing suspicious.
A 14-year-old boy loitering outside a U.S. 2 store told authorities his father had kicked him out. He was given a ride home.
Someone stole a purse worth $200 from a car in the parking lot of a store on U.S. 2 in Evergreen. The purse reportedly had an additional $180 inside.
No one was seriously injured Thursday afternoon in a rollover crash on Foothill Road.
Deputies received 119 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Thursday and 3:30 p.m. Friday.
Kalispell police
A woman on Second Street East was spotted by other drivers swerving all over the road. When Kalispell police pulled her over, they discovered she wasn’t drunk but in an unfamiliar area without her glasses.
Officers arrested an 18-year-old man on suspicion of assault after an altercation on Sixth Avenue East.
A Bluecrest Drive resident allegedly is being harassed by a girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend.
Officers arrested a 24-year-old man on suspicion of DUI and failing to identify himself at the scene of a Hawthorn Avenue crash following a traffic stop on North Meridian Road.
A man walked out of a convenience store on First Avenue East with a case of beer and fled on foot.
Police responded to Woodland Avenue after a woman, who said she had been cut off by another driver, hit a utility pole.
Officers received 71 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Thursday and 3:30 p.m. Friday.
Whitefish police
A woman flagged down a passing motorist and complained that an intoxicated man was chasing her. The motorist gave the woman a ride then called Whitefish police.
Officers received 21 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Thursday and 3:30 p.m. Friday.
Columbia Falls police
Columbia Falls police received 19 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Thursday and 3:30 p.m. Friday.
Alarms
The Kalispell Fire Department responded Friday morning to First Avenue West after a car struck a pedestrian, who was taken to Kalispell Regional Medical Center.