Man arrested on assault, drug charges

Flathead County sheriff’s deputies said that a man accused in a domestic disturbance in Bigfork Saturday afternoon has been jailed on two counts, one for partner assault and the other for felony possession of illegal narcotics.

Deputies reported a husband and wife, both in their 40s, had been arguing when the woman tried to get away from the man by jumping out of their second-floor condominium window. She fell to the ground and hit her head. Officials reported that the man tried unsuccessfully to keep her inside the condo, then called the ambulance after she was injured.

She went to Kalispell Regional Medical Center, where she was treated and released. While responding to the initial call, deputies reportedly noticed narcotics and paraphernalia in plain sight in the residence. They then obtained a search warrant and reportedly found evidence to support the arrest.

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials took over the investigation of a burned-up vehicle found at Hubbart Dam near the north end of the reservoir Saturday afternoon.

A call about a reported juvenile party in the Lake Blaine area Saturday night ended with just one citation for a woman allegedly violating terms of her probation. Others at the party, deputies said, ran into the woods to keep from being caught.

Deputies received 161 calls for assistance between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Workers on a field trip called a fellow worker to say they were lost somewhere west of Kalispell Saturday night, but they weren’t sure whether their two cars still were inside Flathead County. Montana Highway Patrol eventually located everybody safe and sound sometime around midnight.

Whitefish police were called to a fast-food restaurant on U.S. 93 South to handle a commotion reportedly caused when three girls came into the store and began yelling and screaming at an employee shortly after 9 p.m. The rabble rousers reportedly left before officers arrived.

A woman who showed up at North Valley Hospital about 2:30 a.m. Sunday told police she had been beaten up at a Central Avenue bar. The extent of her injuries would warrant a felony assault charge, officers said.

Les Mason Park on East Lakeshore Drive was the answer to the mystery location of a very drunk man, police said, who called about 5 a.m. to say he was lost. Police took him to the station, where he was met by the ambulance for a ride to North Valley Hospital.

Police arrested a man for partner assault and violating a restraining order after he and a woman got into a fight. She said he pushed her. Children were waiting in the vehicle, which the man had been driving.

Kalispell police are investigating a reported theft by upstairs neighbors on Appleway Drive, where a resident said she caught them stealing belongings from her porch. Another caller reported the victim’s boyfriend was chasing the suspects, who left in a green SUV.

Two golf balls in a yard and a vehicle’s broken hatchback window were the stuff of a report from a North Main residence. On Eighth Avenue West, it was a rock and a back window.

Apparently a 10-year-old had an overactive imagination in a book store on U.S. 93 North Saturday afternoon. Police got a call from a store employee saying the child claimed a man tried to take the child out of the store. But Mom was right there, and eventually police decided the story didn’t pan out.

Lots of people were fighting outside an apartment complex on Appleway Drive late Saturday, a caller told police. About 45 minutes later, at midnight, two kids reportedly were running after two other kids.

An Airport Road casino patron reported driving up on an assault in progress outside the bar, just before the suspect ran away and the victim walked to the front of the bar. Another big fight among five or six people was reported there an hour later; a man was taken into custody but then released to his wife.

It was just after 5 a.m. when a woman reportedly tried to get in somebody’s apartment. Police checked the area.

On Canvasback Court, a woman reported a stray dog came in her house and attacked her cat. She got the dog locked in a room. When police arrived, they got it into a vehicle and tried to contact the owner before taking it to the shelter, where workers identified the owner as someone living on Coot Court.

Both license plates were reported stolen off a car when its Canadian owner was parked at a U.S. 93 South inn overnight Saturday.

Officers received 47 calls for assistance between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Columbia Falls police received 26 calls for assistance between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Alarms

Kalispell ambulance took a 16-year-old boy from a Kidsports soccer field to Kalispell Regional Medical Center for treatment of a dislocated elbow.

A Somers landowner and his bulldozer did their best to keep a working fire south of Blacktail Mountain under control, but a little help from Somers Fire Department and Department of Natural Resources and Conservation was called in when it jumped out of bounds Saturday afternoon.

West Valley firefighters put out a fire in the ditch along Farm to Market Road near Three Mile Drive Saturday evening.

Whitefish Fire Department got a call about a tree hanging over the road on Shady River Lane Saturday night; it was removed. Three calls then came in about a tree down across phone lines in the area.