Law roundup
How big were those tennis shoes? Whitefish police had to call the fire department, which had to call Flathead Electric Cooperative to fix a power line at Fourth and Central that was only three or four feet off the ground. Somebody had thrown a pair of laced-together shoes over the line.
Officers logged 26 calls between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Flathead County sheriff’s deputies stopped a pickup truck driver pulling a trailer on Montana 40 just east of Whitefish and took him into custody for DUI. He had been stopped earlier as he headed into Whitefish on U.S. 93, but was released.
Belongings that a landlord left at a Martin City house were now her property, the tenant told the landlord when he came to get them back. Deputies said the landlord then punched the tenant’s roommate in the face.
A woman sold a puppy to a man but he didn’t pay, she told deputies, so she went to retrieve the pup. He chased her down but they only got as far as the intersection of U.S. 2 and Reserve Drive before they got out of their rigs and faced off. Deputies quelled the brewing fight, returning the puppy to the man and advising they take it up in civil court.
A vehicle near storage units on U.S. 2 wasn’t stolen, as reported, after all. The Montana Highway Patrol had it towed.
Threatening to kill her dog, locking her out and throwing all her belongings out of the house on Solberg Drive were Saturday’s complaints of a woman against her husband. Deputies on the scene discovered an outstanding warrant against the man, so he went to jail.
Snowballs were flying again Saturday night on Tamarack Lane on Big Mountain. It made somebody mad enough to call the sheriff’s office.
Walking in the middle of U.S. 2 west of Martin City, reportedly intoxicated, won a man a ride home courtesy of a deputy. The same result came to a man reportedly causing a disturbance at a Lakeside bar early Sunday.
The woman knocking on a Shadow Lane home’s door and asking to use the phone early Sunday said she was being chased. Deputies found no sign of a pursuer, but gave her a ride to an all-night restaurant.
An intruder reported at a South Hilltop Road home was similarly elusive when deputies checked out the report.
Five minutes of pounding on the door and trying to get into her apartment on West Reserve Drive drove a woman to report a man to deputies Sunday morning.
Reportedly driving recklessly on U.S. 93 south of Hodgson Road, a man was stopped and jailed for DUI shortly before noon Sunday. Later, it appeared he had overdosed on medication so he was released and an ambulance was called.
Deputies logged 121 calls between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Kalispell police couldn’t get an answer at the door when they checked on a man reportedly in a West Utah home. A caller reported a woman with a crying baby was outside the home and a man would not let them leave. He reportedly slammed their car door shut. Police arrived and the woman left safely.
A bartender reported several ongoing girl fights in the parking lot outside a U.S. 93 South bar early Sunday.
Somebody keeps damaging a mailbox on Sixth Avenue West, the caller reported. Last week the tube was bent down. Saturday the flag was torn off.
Three were stopped for being minors in possession when police stopped them at Main and 10th Saturday night. The man driving was arrested for DUI.
No suspects were listed in the reported theft of a chocolate Labrador puppy from Fourth Avenue West North on Saturday.
Whoever was looking in the back window of a Sunnyview Lane home but ran when the resident approached was gone when police arrived Saturday night.
Police held a 26-year-old man for parole violation and possession of dangerous drugs when they stopped him on Eighth Avenue West about midnight.
The guy who left a U.S. 2 West bar on foot, then fell down a hill behind the bar, finally was tracked down at the hospital’s emergency room.
Pizza burning in an oven tripped a 6:16 a.m. fire alarm and lots of smoke to clear out of the house on Seventh Avenue West.
Roommates stole her $150 LG Slide phone, the caller reported. Everyone was counseled.
Officers logged 82 calls between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Columbia Falls police arrested a 28-year-old man for DUI during a traffic stop on U.S. 2 West near Hilltop Road late Sunday.
Officers logged 39 calls between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Alarms
Bigfork ambulance took a person with a nearly severed finger from a home on Riverside Road to Kalispell Regional Medical Center Saturday evening.
Kalispell ambulance went to Vanderbilt drive for an 11-year-old boy with seizures Saturday night, but didn’t transport him. When they had to return for the same problem 15 minutes later, they did take him to the hospital.