Angry driver arrested for assault
Flathead County sheriff’s deputies arrested a man for partner assault after he reportedly used his truck to ram another vehicle at a home on Birch Drive. Deputies said his wife had reasonable fear for her own safety after his angry outburst.
A man went to jail on a Columbia Falls contempt warrant after deputies came to the aid of his girlfriend during an argument they allegedly had at a home on Caroline Road.
Deputies are investigating a report of medication stolen from a vehicle on Hodgson Road.
A tire company on U.S. 2 East reported a burglary overnight Saturday. Deputies are investigating.
Somebody was concerned for the welfare of what appeared to be a girl in her pajamas standing along the roadside at the entrance to an Evergreen box store. Deputies discovered it was a woman panhandling and asked her to move along.
Deputies are investigating a reported burglary at a Grand Drive home in Bigfork, where items were missing but no forcible entry was evident.
A woman on East Evergreen reported somebody ripped the side mirror off her vehicle overnight Saturday.
A pair of skis was reported stolen from Whitefish Mountain Resort Saturday.
Deputies received 161 calls for assistance between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Kalispell police are investigating a report from a woman who said she was on the phone with her friend at 5 a.m. when she heard the male half of that couple breaking down the door on Fifth Avenue West North before she lost the phone connection.
A man on foot, with two small dogs, reportedly was checking car doors and taking pictures of houses along Fifth Avenue East just before 2 a.m. Sunday.
Intoxicated apartment dwellers from a nearby unit, the woman told police, tried to get in her apartment, punched her friend in the face and used a sled to try pushing through the door Sunday afternoon. She fainted, the report continued, but didn’t request an ambulance. Nobody wanted to pursue charges, so police cautioned them to stay away from each other or they will be cited if officers have to return.
Police separated a boyfriend and girlfriend Saturday night after she reported he’d been verbally abusive at an Eighth Avenue West apartment.
It was only verbal, a car with six or seven people inside told the officer who checked into a hotel’s report of a fight out back early Sunday.
Footprints in fresh snow raised suspicions at a Second Avenue West address.
Although they checked at a suspect’s residence, police could not find a purse that a Harrison Boulevard woman reported stolen from a locked vehicle.
Prescription medications, a wallet, Montana and tribal identification cards, and a Social Security card were reported stolen from an unlocked car parked at the hospital between Friday evening and Saturday afternoon.
Intoxication appeared to be the cause of a man falling and cutting his head as he left a West Idaho convenience store just before he got into a van and drove away, a caller told police. He couldn’t be located.
A guest in a third-floor room at a hotel on U.S. 93 South reportedly left behind a handgun when checking out on Sunday.
Sledding and making noise at 4 a.m. got a group of seven people shooed away from Dry Bridge Gulch Park.
A mother told police somebody assaulted her son at an East Idaho restaurant early Sunday morning.
Officers received 75 calls for assistance between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Columbia Falls police arrested a 46-year-old man for criminal trespass at a supermarket on Nucleus Avenue. He’d been warned to stay out, police said, but returned to the store anyway.
A Grace Road resident reported somebody took medicines when the house was burglarized. Police are investigating.
Just 20 minutes after a wallet was stolen from a cart in a supermarket Saturday afternoon, somebody reportedly had used a credit card in it. The owner called the credit card company upon returning home and learned of the unauthorized use.
Although unsettling, police told the caller, a photographer was within legal rights when taking pictures of homes that were to be posted on the Internet.
A complaint came in from Council Bluffs about children knocking over garbage cans. After police arrived, the kids cleaned up the mess and apologized.
Officers received 20 calls for assistance between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Whitefish police arrested two 18-year-old men during a traffic stop on U.S. 93 South late Saturday — one for DUI and both of them for being minors in possession of alcohol.
Several other arrests marked the weekend as well — a 20-year-old for being a minor in possession at a bar on Central Avenue, a 36-year-old man for disturbing the peace by urinating in public at Central and First, a 19-year-old man for being a minor in possession at a house party on West Second Street, and a 22-year-old man for DUI in a traffic stop at Mill Avenue and East Second Street.
Officers received 26 calls for assistance between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Montana Highway Patrol and Flathead Electric Cooperative were called twice for vehicles that rammed into power poles on Sunday morning. At 8:20 a.m. a call came from Echo Lake Road, where electrical lines were down but not on top of the vehicle. Forty minutes later a call came from U.S. 2, where the light pole remained intact. Nobody was hurt in either incident.
Alarms
ALERT helicopter flew a woman injured in a snowmobiling accident from the accident site in the Canyon Creek area to Kalispell Regional Medical Center.
Hungry Horse Fire Department was called to a tire fire by the old gravel pit, but the fire was out when they arrived.
Lakeside QRU was called for a 3-year-old girl at a home on U.S. 93 South who was choking on a piece of hard candy.