Law roundup
Kalispell police took a call about a phantom cleaner Saturday night. Just before midnight, a Fifth Avenue East resident called to say someone had broken into her apartment, cleaned the bathroom better than she does, straightened the rest of the apartment, then left the residence locked. Nobody else has keys to the place, the resident said. Whereas the tidiness may have been appreciated, the intrusion was a little creepy.
A woman called from Lawrence Park Sunday afternoon, where she said vehicles were illegally parked and the uphill road was too slick for her to make it out of the park. Police arrived to find both the supposedly offending trucks were legally parked and creating no hazard. A plow truck that had arrived before the officer reported the road needed no sanding. The officer then counseled the woman about her threats to slash the tires of the two parked vehicles. Police reported that her non-winterized vehicle was towed out of the park by a good Samaritan.
Somebody reported that there was going to be a naked underage alcohol party at a Kalispell home Saturday night. Everybody was clothed when police arrived, but a couple adults were cited for underage possession of alcohol.
An Isuzu Rodeo reportedly hit a pole near a former Western clothing store, but nobody was hurt.
Officers checked into a reported family disturbance on 10th Avenue West early Sunday, where loud yelling and banging prompted concern. Police said nobody answered the door at first, although they could hear crying from inside. The final report is that the disturbance was not physical.
Police received 55 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Flathead County sheriff’s deputies determined it was a civil matter when two men reportedly showed up at a home on Columbia Falls Stage early Sunday, took the resident’s two ATVs and threatened him. Source of the consternation apparently was a couple sets of tires that hadn’t been paid for.
Deputies are investigating criminal mischief reported at an Evergreen tire store.
Although the caller reported gunshots, vehicles and people at the south end of the Rogers Lake fishing access Saturday evening, nobody was around when deputies arrived. The caller said he hadn’t seen anybody leaving in the interval.
An alleged shoplifter at an Evergreen box store was brought to the detention center Saturday night because he was an out-of-county resident and couldn’t make bail, deputies said. He also reportedly had illegal pills in his possession.
A disturbance on Fern Lane by Bigfork late Saturday reportedly was an argument among people who had been drinking. Nobody wanted to pursue charges.
A deputy responding to an emergency call just after midnight hit a deer as the car drove at high speed through the section of Montana 35 just north of Bigfork known as Ice Box Canyon.
A resident on U.S. 2 north of a produce business called the sheriff’s office to complain of a neighbor, apparently intoxicated, who came outside to yell and cuss at the resident as he worked on his own property. Apparently it is an ongoing problem, and the resident’s children are subjected to the ranting.
Deputies received 107 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Whitefish police didn’t have to go far for an arrest at 2:45 a.m. Sunday. An officer inside the station heard yelling just outside the doors and, after checking into the incident, arrested a 22-year-old man for carrying a concealed weapon and possession of dangerous drugs. The concealed weapon was brass knuckles, the same weapon cited in a similar warrant issued by Kalispell police in an earlier incident.
Two women from Calgary, ages 27 and 23, were cited for disorderly conduct after an alleged fight at a downtown Whitefish hotel early Sunday.
Police received 28 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Columbia Falls police cited two 14-year-old boys for allegedly shoplifting at a Nucleus Avenue supermarket Saturday night.
Police received 10 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Alarms
Big Mountain ambulance took two people, a 16-year-old with a hip injury and a 20-year-old with a knee injury, to North Valley Hospital Saturday afternoon.
Lakeside QRU took a 36-year-old man, reportedly “coming down from alcohol,” to Kalispell Regional Medical Center.