Fleeing teenager hides in bushes

After a 20 minute chase, Kalispell Police located the 17-year-old suspect hiding along the riverbank near U.S. 2 East. The boy said he eluded police because he didn’t have a driver’s license. Officers had tried to pull him over for a traffic stop around 11 p.m. Friday, but he refused to yield. After leading officers in a short pursuit, he ditched the car and ran into the woods to hide. He was arrested for probation violation, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, obstructing a police officer, resisting arrest and eluding a peace officer.

The two teens sitting outside a grocery on First Avenue East asking customers for money to buy food were gone when police arrived around 9 p.m. Friday.

The man who was reportedly being verbally abusive to an employee of a motel on U.S. 93 South was removed and taken to another motel Friday night.

Officers were unable to locate the suspicious man seen crouching near garbage cans and a shed along Liberty Street around 10:30 p.m. Friday.

Around 2 a.m. Saturday, approximately 15 people who had been drinking were apparently using profanity and being disorderly in the parking lot of a diner on East Idaho. Officers determined the subjects were of age and counseled them. The loud woman was heading inside as officers arrived.

Officers received 63 calls for service between 2:30 p.m. Friday and 2:30 p.m. Saturday.

An intoxicated pedestrian, who was crossing U.S. 2 East to purchase alcohol from a gas station, was counseled by Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies about when to safely cross the street.

The 25-year-old woman punching walls and yelling inside a Martin City residence around 9 p.m. Friday was counseled.

A man was sitting inside a dark-colored van in the parking lot of a Lakeside ski area after hours Friday. It is unknown why he was there. Deputies later found the vehicle, but not the man.

A stolen 1987 silver Honda Accord that had been partially spray painted black was located near an RV dealership on U.S. 2 East around 10:45 p.m. Friday.

Although deputies could hear people milling around inside, no one would answer the door of a Mountain View Drive residence around 11:30 p.m. Friday. Deputies suspected it was a juvenile party.

A person who identified himself as a medical marijuana caregiver said three ounces of marijuana, patients’ cards and a briefcase were stolen from his 1995 Pontiac as it was parked at a Lakeside casino Friday night.

Private signs were vandalized along Oxbow Trail Saturday.

A Mallard Loop resident walked into the backyard Saturday afternoon and noticed a dead deer. The deer didn’t appear to have sustained any trauma and the resident suspected it had been poisoned. The matter was referred to Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks.

Deputies received 143 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Friday and 3:30 p.m. Saturday.

Whitefish Police arrested three men downtown in the early hours Saturday morning.

The first was arrested for having an open container around 1 a.m.

The second, for disorderly conduct around 1:50 a.m.

And the last urinated in public around 2:16 a.m.

Officers received 21 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Friday and 3:30 p.m. Saturday.

Columbia Falls Police arrested a 47-year-old man for DUI along Ninth Street West Friday afternoon.

Officers received 24 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Friday and 3:30 p.m. Saturday.

Alarms

Around 7 p.m. Friday, a man, who had been drinking, called Kalispell Police and asked to be removed from a Third Street West residence. He told officers he and his girlfriend had been fighting and she wouldn’t leave him alone. Officers soon arrived to take him to a motel, but as the man was getting into the cruiser he fell and twisted his ankle. He was transported instead to Kalispell Regional Medical Center.

Molten jelly exploded on a White Basin Road resident during a canning endeavor gone wrong around 3:20 p.m. Saturday. The unfortunate canner, who sustained burns to the arms, was driven to the emergency room by a private vehicle.

A 70-year-old woman collapsed near a shopping center on Main Street Saturday morning, but was alert when medical personnel arrived. She was transported to Kalispell Regional Medical Center.

An 11-year-old girl who sustained a back injury was transported to Kalispell Regional Medical Center around 2 p.m. Saturday.

Columbia Falls Fire Department responded to a report of a dumpster fire at the green boxes in Columbia Falls around 2:20 p.m. Saturday. Only smoke was visible when crew arrived and the smoldering was soon out.