Slasher strikes tires near C. Falls
Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies investigated what appeared to be an insatiable tire slasher who ripped through the Falcon Acres Loop and Pheasant Road area outside Columbia Falls overnight Saturday. Tires were slashed at four homes, solar lights were damaged at another and criminal mischief was reported at another.
A man and woman with a long-standing practice of fighting in an apartment complex on Montana 35 apparently were drinking and spatting again just after midnight Sunday. The man went to jail when deputies discovered an outstanding misdemeanor warrant against him.
An ATV had been hauled out of an open storage barn on Pioneer Road but the would-be thieves were unable to make off with it. Deputies stepped up their patrols.
Somebody kicked in the door to a house on 12th Avenue West in Kalispell, a caller reported Saturday. Miscellaneous tools went missing.
A rock slide left nothing more than a bit of a rocky road on East Lakeshore outside Whitefish Saturday afternoon, Montana Department of Transportation officials reported. Since it’s a county road, they referred the mess to the Flathead County Road Department.
Deputies answering a call to Lore Lake Road recovered a vehicle reported stolen out of Gallatin County.
Two young men who showed up at a home on Stageline Drive by Whitefish Saturday apparently were legitimate when they claimed to be searching for a lost dog.
Suspected spotlighters on Columbia Falls Stage just south of Trap Road were gone when deputies checked into the report.
A man went to jail on suspicion of DUI after another driver on Montana 35 called in a concern for erratic driving.
A 14-year-old boy got a ride back home from a deputy after he took off walking down a road near Marion to escape a fight that was under way at the house.
Deputies monitored the Flathead County Detention Center after an inmate allegedly threatened a jailer Sunday.
Two theft reports indicated two sets of skis were stolen from unlocked vehicles in Ptarmigan Village on Big Mountain.
Deputies received 129 calls between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Kalispell police reported they could hear the loud music from the time they got out of their patrol vehicles at an apartment on Fourth Avenue East Saturday evening, but they had to issue their warning through the door when the resident wouldn’t open up. Earlier the landlord had called about the same soon-to-be-evicted tenant, who reportedly had been playing drums and loud music and screaming obscenities. Things had been quiet when police showed up that time.
Officers are investigating a woman’s report that another woman came into her home on Second Avenue West early Sunday looking for a man, but then assaulted the resident. She ran and the intruder gave chase, police reported.
A skater at Woodland ice skating rink Saturday night returned to his gear bag to find somebody had ditched three wallets in it after stealing $200 in cash from them.
Road rage reportedly sullied the peaceful flow of traffic near the junction of First Avenue West and U.S. 2 Saturday evening.
Police ended up arresting a 58-year-old man on a city warrant for indecent exposure after the ambulance was called to a home on Third Avenue West Saturday afternoon.
A traffic stop on U.S. 93 North Saturday evening ended with a man’s arrest for DUI.
Officers were called to a bar on Second Street East about 11:30 p.m. Saturday, where they arrested one female for being a minor in possession and another for unlawful use of a license or ID.
Maybe the stereo faceplate had some resale value to a thief who got into an unlocked vehicle at a theater complex on U.S. 93 North Saturday night. But the missing cookies couldn’t have been good for much more than the munchies.
People on a fire escape outside a downtown hotel caused a disturbance early Sunday. A man ended up getting arrested for an outstanding Highway Patrol warrant.
A woman who left her wallet with $210 in cash, ID, and credit and debit cards in a shopping cart returned to find it was missing Sunday afternoon.
Officers received 73 calls between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Whitefish police checked into a report from North Valley Hospital’s emergency room that somebody had violated a protection order Saturday afternoon.
Officers received 22 calls between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Columbia Falls police received 11 calls between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Montana Highway Patrol went to a call about a vehicle stuck beneath the railroad trestle on South Hilltop at its junction with Jellison Road. Somebody with a Bobcat loader was pulling it out when they arrived.
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Big Mountain ambulance took a 10-year-old boy from the ski area to North Valley Hospital after a fall Saturday night.
Evergreen ambulance took a patient with a back injury from Majestic Valley Arena to Kalispell Regional Medical Center Saturday night.
Kalispell Fire Department had the tenders of a bonfire on Fifth Avenue East shrink the blaze considerably after one report of 12-foot flames.