'Blood' on child just chocolate
A child was bleeding from the face, a concerned citizen told Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday. Deputies caught up with the green Dodge van in which the child was sitting, but learned the “blood” seen on the child’s face was, in fact, melted chocolate from a Butterfinger candy bar.
A man apparently tried to break into a Hungry Horse post office Wednesday afternoon.
People hanging around a Woodland Road portable toilet retailer Wednesday night aroused suspicion.
The late-night disturbance between a father and son on Cottonwood Drive was only verbal.
After apparently busting out the windows and trashing a Meadow Lake Drive residence around 1:30 a.m. Thursday, a man went to his sister’s.
After getting 10 calls from someone claiming to represent the publisher’s clearing house, a Birch Grove resident called deputies, who determined the calls were part of an out-of-country scam.
A man, who had been drinking, apparently pushed someone at a Valley View Drive residence and was yelling Thursday morning. Deputies gave him a ride to a differently location.
An unknown animal killed 19 chickens at a Farm Road residence Thursday afternoon. This is apparently an ongoing problem.
Deputies received 115 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Wednesday and 3:30 p.m. Thursday.
Entering a West Center Street coffee shop Wednesday with what looked like a pink cell phone but turned out to be a taser, a man apparently deployed it, scaring employees and customers. Officers left a message for the suspect.
A man claiming to be part of military law enforcement apparently followed a woman and her baby-sitter and tried to talk to the woman’s children. The non-uniformed man apparently didn’t have an ID with him at the time. Officers are investigating.
Officers were unable to locate the older model green Astro van seen speeding and circling the block around Center Street and Meridian Wednesday afternoon.
A school resource officer is looking into a report of boys who came to a Sixth Street West school with guns. The officer had not returned calls at press time.
After sitting in a gray Volvo and drinking a beer around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, a mustached man in a baseball cap apparently secured his vehicle in the parking lot of a credit union on East Montana Street and left on foot.
Two men absconded with a six pack of Bud Light from a casino on U.S. 93 South and were last seen heading toward a nearby inn around 8 p.m. Wednesday.
A kayak was stolen from an Eighth Avenue East backyard Wednesday night. It is valued around $1,600.
Coming home late Wednesday night, a woman noticed the door to her Lupine Drive residence was broken and some guns were missing. She told police her ex could be to blame.
After a shoplifting attempt at a Third Avenue East North grocery went sour during the wee hours Thursday, a woman was arrested. The beanie-wearing tattooed man with her, however, was not.
A white truck high-centered on the cement barrier along First Avenue West around 8 a.m. Thursday.
Officers received 76 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Wednesday and 3:30 p.m. Thursday.
Whitefish Police received 10 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Wednesday and 3:30 p.m. Thursday.
Columbia Falls Police received 14 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Wednesday and 3:30 p.m. Thursday.
Alarms
The Montana Department of Transportation handled the temporary street light power outage at the intersection of Montana 40 and U.S. 93 around 6 a.m. Thursday.