Two teens mistaken for burglars
The teens in a surveillance photo that ran in last Saturday’s Inter Lake “are not the guys we’re looking for,” according to Detective Scott Warnell of the Kalispell Police Department. “It’s not appearing that they are the ones who did the burglary,” Warnell said.
Officers initially named the two as “persons of interest” in a burglary and ran a photo in hopes of identifying them. Seeing their photo in the paper, the teens contacted Kalispell Police. After talking with the teens, Warnell determined they were trying to pawn clubs similar to the ones stolen from the Village Greens area sometime between Feb. 16 and Feb. 22. Officers are still on the lookout for a suspect in the burglary of those clubs, valued at approximately $700.
A bearded man wearing a baseball cap and an orange zip-up sweatshirt was seen pushing a bike and falling down as he headed north along U.S. 93 around 11 p.m. Wednesday. Although he suffered a chin laceration from a fall along the way, he refused medical help. Police determined he wasn’t so intoxicated that he couldn’t make it home.
When a woman came home around midnight Wednesday, her ex-boyfriend was at her residence. He apparently began pounding on the windows of her vehicle, so she drove off. Later, when she answered the door, he apparently broke the window, shattering glass which cut her face and his hand. He then took off in a black Mazda truck. Officers located him and arrested him for partner or family member assault.
Three young men, who apparently looked like they were going to bash in a vehicle’s window, ran when a man inside the vehicle scared them off around 1:30 a.m. Thursday.
Officers cited the owner of a dog that apparently bit a child around noon Thursday. The dog was taken to the shelter. The boy’s bite did not require medical attention. Officers are investigating whether the dog bit someone else earlier in the week.
Holding a gun, a man apparently jumped from the bushes and pointed it at a person standing near a school bus stop on Lake Blaine Road around 4 p.m. Thursday. Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies secured the area after a brief standoff.
A dock was cut loose and floated out into Flathead Lake, a Bigfork Bay resident reported Wednesday afternoon.
A suspicious sign was seen on Orchard Ridge around 4 p.m. Wednesday. According to the report, it said “suicide” and depicted a crudely-drawn figure wearing a jersey with the number 23 and the name “Jordan.” The head of the figure was cut out.
An intoxicated inmate was apparently uncooperative, refusing to follow instructions and falling to the floor during booking around midnight Wednesday. He was apparently willing to cooperate once he sobered up.
After confronting a man in a vehicle playing loud music in the Cottonwood Drive area at 2:20 a.m. Thursday, a man said the vehicle tried to run him over. He was advised to file a report when sober.
Alarms
The Whitefish Fire Department extinguished a flaming shed on Haskill Basin Road in about an hour Wednesday night.