Law enforcement roundup
Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies cited several people younger than 21 for being minors in possession after deputies broke up an underage drinking party on Conrad Drive Saturday night.
The coroner was called to a Seventh Street West hotel about 3 p.m. Sunday after neighbors found a man who had died in a room there. Dispatchers said it was a natural death, with no suspicious circumstances.
Good deeds went unrecognized by the caller who reported a couple kids wearing boots and pushing a shopping cart were throwing glass bottles in the road on East Edgewood. In reality, they were picking up garbage and cans others had tossed.
Two tenants of an inn on U.S. 2 East in Evergreen nearly got into a fight, but deputies averted the fracas with some sage advice.
One of the two men fighting at a bar on Montana 35 East in Evergreen left before deputies arrived.
In two separate incidents at Evergreen box stores Saturday night, shoplifting citations replaced the free goods that two different people allegedly had sought.
An argument between a man and woman on Blacktail Heights Road Saturday afternoon resulted in the two being separated for the night.
On Columbia Range Drive, the argument between a husband and wife ended with the man leaving before deputies arrived.
The arguing on Martin Camp Road at Whitefish was between a man and his adult son. Deputies split them up for the night.
Snooze time was cut short for the man found sleeping in his vehicle at a bar and casino’s parking lot north of Bigfork Sunday morning. Deputies asked him to move along.
A $1,000 pair of skis and a backpack reportedly went missing at a Whitefish ski resort. A gas card had a large sum charged against it after a relative reportedly stole it from the owner.
Deputies received 128 calls for assistance between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Kalispell police separated a woman and the father of her children after she reported that he broke down the door to her apartment on Eighth Avenue West early Sunday. She called police while she and the two children were in a bedroom and he reportedly was in the living room. She told police he usually carries a switchblade.
A woman had a police officer to thank for giving her a lift to church Sunday morning, after she ran out of gas while driving near Twin Acres on U.S. 93. The officer helped her get gas but they still could not get the vehicle started, so he took her to the church in north Kalispell.
Screaming profanities and allegedly harassing customers at a First Avenue East supermarket got a man arrested for disorderly conduct, criminal trespass and resisting arrest early Sunday.
Officers made a DUI arrest after a man was involved in a crash near the south end of Willow Glen early Sunday. He was treated at Kalispell Regional Medical Center for injuries from the wreck.
The woman found in a Jeep Cherokee parked for over an hour with its lights on in a church lot on Liberty Street early Sunday was taken into custody for DUI and obstructing a law officer.
A 911 caller early Sunday reportedly was taking someone with possible alcohol poisoning to the emergency room. Law officers suspected the caller and three or four juveniles in the vehicle were intoxicated. Police determined the incident happened in Bigfork and requested a deputy.
Three possible fighters outside a Fifth Avenue East home headed south on foot about midnight and were gone when police arrived.
A disturbance at a Sixth Avenue East home early Sunday ended with an 18-year-old man being arrested for alcohol possession, disorderly conduct and obstructing an officer.
Police advised a man to leave the neighbors alone after a Sixth Street West resident complained that he kept coming across the street and knocking on the door, even though he’d been asked to leave and not return.
The same Public Works Department worker answered two separate calls for raw sewage backing up into people’s basements, one on Second Avenue East Saturday afternoon and the other on Ninth Street East Sunday afternoon.
A woman who said a man broke into her van got a good description of the suspect. Police are investigating.
Officers received 59 calls for assistance between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Columbia Falls police arrested a 55-year-old man for DUI following a suspicious person complaint at a Nucleus Avenue supermarket Saturday evening.
Police are looking into a report of obscene phone calls.
Officers received 23 calls for assistance between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
An unconscious man lying on the ground outside a Central Avenue bar, a large crowd surrounding him and an ambulance ride to North Valley Hospital were the elements of an assault reported to Whitefish police early Sunday.
Alarms
The Kalispell Fire Department was called when flames erupted in an oven on West California Street Saturday evening.
Kalispell ambulance went to Majestic Valley Arena Saturday evening, where a 12-year-old bull rider got stepped on. He went to the hospital by private vehicle.