Law roundup

A woman called Kalispell police after a man reportedly harassed her and mocked her son’s skating abilities.

A business owner complained about homeless people hanging out at his store and reaching into the bed of his pickup. Officers told the transients they weren’t welcome there.

A man shoved his ex-wife, who is expecting a baby with her new husband. The woman’s new mother-in-law called police.

Two women were cited and released for theft when they were caught shoplifting at a box store on U.S. 93.

Dispatch received two calls about an altercation at a stoplight, in which one man apparently suffered a cut cheek and bloody nose after another man hit him in the face and broke his glasses. No victim has stepped forward, however, so no crime has taken place.

A cell phone was reported stolen on Liberty Street.

A caller told dispatch he’d honked his horn at the person he saw trying to sneak into a fenced area on Grandview Drive. The would-be burglar ran off, and officers were unable to find him.

Once again, a drugstore parking lot proved a popular hangout for local teenagers, and once again, officers were asked to help move them along.

Later, a group of kids in a supermarket parking lot were thought suspicious.

Jubilee Court was an aptly named place for fireworks Friday night. Unfortunately it is inside city limits, where fireworks are illegal.

More fireworks, as well as a loud party, were reported in a Seventh Street West duplex.

A renter who had been evicted from a 10th Avenue West apartment apparently tried to get back in.

A caller said a 19-year-old man had given a 16-year-old girl roofies.

A caller complained of someone in a white minivan throwing bottles out the window on Seventh Avenue East.

Someone on Liberty Street worried that the several people yelling outside might be up to “possibly some kind of violence.” They were gone by the time officers arrived.

A man tried to fight an Airport Road bartender and then threatened to hit the person who called police to complain.

A landlord reported several items stolen from an apartment and told police the suspect lives across the street.

A Second Avenue East resident called police to complain about a can of paint spilled all over her carpet — apparently part of an ongoing issue with someone from the day before.

A caller found a drug pipe and wanted to turn it over to police.

A caller who had sold a trailer to a guy, whose name the caller didn’t know, said he’d only been paid half what he was owed and that his license plates were still on it.

A teenage boy from a boarding school disappeared from an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and was reported as a runaway juvenile.

A 13-year-old girl was arrested for family member assault after she allegedly fought her mother.

A woman reported some of her brother’s belongings stolen.

Alarms

Kalispell firefighters responded to a smoking Dumpster in an alley between Third and Fourth avenues west.