Thief makes off with $600 in golf balls

The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office took a report about $600 worth of golf balls stolen from Eagle Bend Golf Club at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

A criminal mischief hit-and-run accident was reported at 10 a.m. Tuesday after mailboxes were hit on Morningstar Drive.

A burglary was reported at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday on Terrace Road after guns were stolen and houses trashed.

The sheriff’s office received a report of phone scams where someone calls from Las Vegas to give notification of $2 million in winnings. The person must send $300 before collecting the winnings, however.

A trespass was reported on Mountain Creek Drive in Kila about someone driving a four-wheeler on the road.

A disturbance between a 16-year-old male and a 20- to 25-year-old male was reported at 6:20 a.m. Wednesday on Solberg Drive after the boy tried to leave the residence.

A burglary was reported at 10:30 p.m. Tuesday on Cottonwood Drive after a girlfriend reportedly took a boyfriend’s laptop after an argument.

A report of people breaking into cars was taken at 3:20 a.m. Wednesday on Reserve Drive. The suspects are two white males in their late teens or early 20s.

A report of a vehicle being spray-painted in Whitefish was taken at 5:53 a.m. Wednesday.

Kalispell Police were alerted about two girls walking in the roadway of Conrad Drive. Several cars had to swerve to miss them in early afternoon Tuesday near Woodland Park.

A caller was concerned about a man with a scraggly mustache in a black leather jacket who appeared drunk and was walking in traffic on East Idaho Tuesday. No word whether this was the same mustachioed man in a dirty gray shirt who was supposedly harassing customers for money for prescriptions at a nearby pharmacy.

Police investigated a report of child abuse in Woodland Park. The caller said a heavy-set female in a white baseball cap and T-shirt was yelling and hitting a 1-year-old child in a stroller while walking down a path.

A woman was arrested for shoplifting Tuesday afternoon at a store on North Main Street.

A caller alerted police that a woman had left three to four children alone in a van in downtown Kalispell. Police counseled her about leaving the children alone and told her to take care of a misdemeanor warrant out of Hill County.

A caller informed police that a woman with advanced diabetes and mental illness may be living out of a storage shed on North Meridian Road. No one was on site when officers checked.

A resident of Sixth Street West reported that her iPod was stolen. She suspects a young relative and asked police to contact him.

Police investigated a complaint that youths were spray-painting the bridge at Underpass Hill. It turned out that the young people were performing a good deed by removing the graffiti Tuesday evening. 

A woman called police late Tuesday to report that her teenage son saw a man about 60-years-old smoking drugs at the skate park. He said the man tried to get the youth to come over and “try a bowl.” Police investigated and found a man matching the description but others at the skate park said he had not offered any drugs.

A woman complained that a man in his early 40s with dark skin and black messy hair approached her early Wednesday morning on U.S. 2 and asked if she wanted to smoke a bong. She said his zipper was down and she could see what she shouldn’t. Officers searched but could not locate the offender who was in a tan Lincoln Town Car with rust on the side.

A woman on Third Avenue East reported that her boyfriend had choked her and had left with her 3-year-old child.

A caller on Third Avenue East complained that a man was hiding in the trees near the building. The caller stated that a stack of used hypodermic needles had been found in the area earlier.

A 14-year-old boy alleged Wednesday that he had been assaulted by his mother and her boyfriend on Lupine Drive.

A caller reported that two 8-year-old boys were left home to fend for themselves on Canvasback Court.