Law enforcement roundup

Kalispell police are investigating a report of a 50-year-old woman who was beaten by a man Friday night severely enough to need transport to Kalispell Regional Medical Center’s emergency room late Saturday afternoon.

An apartment on Appleway Drive was the scene of an argument between a woman and the father of her children, police said. She reported she tried to get him out of the place after he punched a hole in a cupboard, but he shoved her, took a knife from a bookcase, put it in her hand and told her to stick the knife into him. He left on foot, police said.

A Jeep flipped over on its top after running a stoplight on First Avenue East and being hit by a car coming through the intersection at Second Street, police said. Only the Jeep’s driver suffered minor cuts to his arm.

A $250 longboard was stolen, according to a caller from a shopping mall business.

The bicycle found in bushes behind a store on U.S. 2 West was left at a nearby hotel’s front desk until it could be picked up.

After talking with her daughter further on Saturday night, a mother told police that she doubted the truth of a report that her 11-year-old was assaulted by a man Friday night.

Police are investigating a front-yard fight between a man and woman Saturday night, when the woman was struck in the face before the man drove away.

Suspicious activity on Greatview Drive ended with a 20-year-old man being arrested for possession of dangerous drugs and drug paraphernalia and for two misdemeanor warrants.

A woman driving on Third Avenue East early Sunday was arrested for DUI and driving the wrong way on a one-way street.

In a book store on U.S. 93 North Sunday afternoon, a man reportedly exposed himself to another man before going back into the bathroom. Police arrested the alleged offender for indecent exposure.

Officers received 42 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Columbia Falls police were called to check on a man who was yelling and spitting at people in front of apartments at the corner of Sixth Street West and Nucleus Avenue. He was gone when police arrived.

Police received 20 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Flathead County sheriff’s deputies were called to mediate a problem Sunday morning with horses that had made a mess on Baptist church property on Two Mile Drive. The horse owners reportedly had been asked twice before to keep their critters fenced.

A man reportedly was yelling at his mother at a home on Woodland Road Saturday evening. She locked herself in a bedroom and he left.

At a home west of Whitefish, an intoxicated man reportedly was hitting a woman and her sister before he left on foot. Authorities are investigating.

Drag-racing cars on Foy’s Lake Road couldn’t be located Saturday night. Somebody told dispatchers they were going over 100 mph.

What looked suspiciously like drug activity on Shadow Lane in Evergreen turned out to be a diabetic neighbor’s insulin needles that had fallen out of a garbage can in a wind storm.

Deputies got reports of a couple vehicle crashes where nobody was around by the time another driver discovered the incident. On East Lakeshore Drive, a phone pole was the stopping point.

Two llamas were at large in a yard on Dunmovin Lane in West Valley Sunday morning. Who the owners are remains a mystery.

Deputies received 172 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Whitefish police went to an argument between a man and woman on Oak Street early Sunday, where they discovered both had been drinking and the woman had fired a gun into the furniture, then left the gun on the floor. The man was arrested.

Police discovered that what was reported as gun shots from a caller on Kalispell Avenue actually were exploding fireworks late Saturday.

Several mailboxes on Skyles and Wisconsin had been gone through and the mail tossed.

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Kalispell ambulance took a woman from Wild Goose Lane to the hospital after she fell off a horse and broke both ankles Saturday.

On Sunday, a wrestler at Glacier High School gym got a back injury and an ambulance ride to Kalispell Regional Medical Center.