Law roundup

Windows at a Central Avenue retail store were shattered in bar brawls that Whitefish police investigated Saturday night.

First, shortly after 10:30 p.m., officers received a call about a fight, reportedly involving a lot of shoving, pulling and yelling, between two men inside a Central Avenue bar. It continued as the pugilists went out the back door, and then one ended up going through the next-door store’s plate-glass window. Police arrested a 28-year-old man for criminal mischief in that case.

Then shortly after 12:30 a.m., a man had just finished boarding up the broken window when two more men brought their fight into the alley. One man shoved the other, whose head was severely cut when it went though a window next to the first one. The man who did the shoving took off, the repairer told police when he brought the victim to the station. The injured man was taken to North Valley Hospital.

An hour later, a woman was among a crowd of fighting people who spilled out the back door of another Central Avenue bar onto a side street. As she wound up to punch a man in the face, police reported, an officer grabbed her arm and ended up getting punched in the mouth. She continued to resist, so he initially arrested her for assault on a police officer and disorderly conduct, but later dropped the count of assault.

Before another hour had passed, another disturbance broke out at a bowling alley on U.S. 93 South, where a 26-year-old man was arrested for disorderly conduct and a couple warrants.

Police arrested a 39-year-old man for DUI, driving without a license, a Highway Patrol warrant and criminal endangerment for having an 18-month-old child in the car when police stopped him at 9 p.m. Saturday.

About 20 Canadians having a party were causing enough disturbance to neighbors on Old Highway 93 that, after the second day of the racket, the neighbors called Flathead County sheriff’s deputies. The deputies told the partiers to quiet down or risk deportation.

The shoving and yelling between a Shady Lane resident’s grandson and his wife Sunday afternoon apparently was over a greeting card. The wife reportedly ended up with red marks on her neck as she tried in vain to get the card out of her husband’s hand.

When family members moved their trailer onto the property at a Rhodes Draw home, it was too much. The resident relatives called in to report the unwanted subjects.

Two men got into a pushing match outside a bar on U.S. 2 west of Columbia Falls early Sunday. Deputies arrived to find one had a Colorado warrant, but couldn’t track down the other man.

Officers fought with two women and a guy reportedly caught shoplifting at an Evergreen box store Sunday afternoon.

Deputies received 111 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Kalispell police are investigating a couple contacts with the same man in two incidents Sunday afternoon. First a call came from Third Avenue West North, reporting that a man and woman were fighting, with the woman allegedly getting her hair pulled and the man getting smacked three times. Then came a call from a hotel on U.S. 93 South reporting that the man had pushed another man there, then took off toward another hotel.

The man himself then called dispatchers to say he was driving drunk and headed for Bigfork. They advised him to pull off to the side of the highway, which he said he did. No report on whether police found him there.

Officers also are investigating a case of a woman who called a friend, crying, to say her boyfriend threatened her. The phone disconnected during that call.

Police were tipped off about an underage drinking party after a girl told her mother that someone spiked her Mountain Dew and that she woke up wearing someone else’s clothes. She eventually directed police to a garage on Sixth Avenue West where the party possibly took place.

Officers received 63 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Columbia Falls police are looking into a possible case of criminal trespass on Fourth Avenue West, where a man who had been evicted from an apartment returned and went back inside Sunday morning.

Officers received 22 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.