Flying camera gives boy a shiner
After picking up his son from his ex-wife Tuesday evening, a man suspected she had given the child a black eye. The boy maintained it was accidental and that he had been hit by a video camera. Watching the camera’s recording, Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies observed the boy jumping on a trampoline right before the camera flew through the air and appeared to hit something.
Suspicious items keep appearing in a vacant East Lakeshore house, a housekeeper reported around 7 p.m. Tuesday.
After a man was sitting in a truck outside a youth club and refusing to leave Tuesday night, deputies were called. The man was cited for MIP and a sober driver was called to pick him up.
A Smith Lake Road resident heard 30 rounds fired in 30 minutes and called deputies Tuesday night, worried the shots were too near the home. Deputies determined the neighbor had an appropriate backdrop at which to shoot and wasn’t posing a threat.
Deputies were called to investigate a suspicious man who was looking under cars around 5 p.m. Tuesday. It turned out he was just picking up papers he had dropped.
A man reportedly punched a woman in the face, disconnected the phone lines, then took off in a minivan around 10 p.m. Tuesday. Deputies arrested him for partner or family member assault.
Having not used her alarm in 10 years, a woman was shocked when it went off around 1 a.m. Wednesday morning. Deputies helped her shut it off.
Deputies received 125 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Tuesday and 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.
A woman was kidnapped and held for $700 or cocaine as ransom, an anonymous caller told Kalispell Police around 9:41 p.m. Tuesday. Police contacted the woman’s boyfriend in an attempt to locate the woman, but learned the story was a hoax. The man was arrested for obstructing.
Officers are investigating the theft of money from a Sixth Avenue East residence reported around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Police were called to investigate slippery straw lying in the road that was reportedly causing a hazard near the Idaho and Meridian intersection Tuesday evening. Officers determined it was not a public danger.
An animal lover called police around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, worried about an injured cat. Officers determined the cat wasn’t injured that badly, as it made its way back to a shed where it apparently lived with other feral felines.
Someone has been siphoning gas from a vehicle parked near a Glenwood Drive residence, a woman told police Tuesday evening.
Suspicious about a propane tank that recently appeared near an abondoned vehicle, a resident told police Tuesday night about the wrecked blue and red vehicle that has been parked along Liberty Street for a month. She also saw someone taking things from the car. Officers counseled the woman and secured the tank.
At a Fifth Avenue West North residence, an arguing man and woman were separated by police Tuesday night.
Officers received 67 calls for service between 2:30 p.m. Tuesday and 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Someone stole a picture off the wall of a fast-food restaurant on U.S. 93 North. Whitefish Police are investigating.
Officers received 21 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Tuesday and 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.
An accountant was apparently assaulted at a U.S. 2 West business late Wednesday afternoon. Columbia Falls Police are investigating.
Officers received 11 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Tuesday and 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Alarms
Blaming breathing troubles on Wednesday’s morning weather, an elderly man and woman were transported to North Valley Hospital.