'Weird' vehicle contains rocks, wood

A suspicious vehicle was spotted along Hutton Ranch Road. It contained wooden objects on top, big rocks inside and “some other weird stuff in it” that “looks like a propane fire thrower of sorts.” Officers are investigating.

A young teen was seen riding a bicycle in and out of traffic between Second and Third Avenue West around 3 p.m. Tuesday. She was gone when officers arrived.

In a separate incident, although it was reported that a kid on a bicycle was hit by a car along Fifth Avenue East Tuesday afternoon, upon further investigation officers learned the person who reported the incident saw the bike lying against a garbage can and the kid getting off the ground and walking away, and noticed vehicles in the area.

Officers approached the man seen stumbling down the railroad tracks near North Main around 7 p.m. Tuesday, but the man refused assistance.

As a girl and her friend walked near Flathead High School around 8 p.m. Tuesday, a man in a black Eclipse drove by and shot a pellet gun at her. This apparently happened yesterday as well.

An out-of-town visitor watched as a seated middle-aged man fell from a bench in Depot Park and was apparently unable to get up, but told the witness he was OK. Officers caught up to the tumbler later Tuesday night and determined he had apparently been drinking, but was otherwise OK.

Fireworks were reportedly lit off in the Tenth Street West area “every 10 minutes” around 10 p.m. Tuesday.

A biker heading back from Lone Pine late Tuesday night was reportedly shot in the back by two men wielding a BB gun. The biker refused an ambulance and requested the incident be logged for information only.

Dispatchers answered a 911 call, only to hear people talking in the background and suspicious sounds. The call was traced to an Oregon and First Avenue East North address, but officers learned the phone had misdialed while a man was playing shoot-em-up video games.

The 9-year-old child reported missing at 12:55 p.m. Wednesday from a Sixth Avenue East residence was located three minutes later at a park.

Officers received 79 calls for service between 3 p.m. Tuesday and 3 p.m. Wednesday.

Due to employee fears that a bat was rabid, the animal had to be removed from outside a store on U.S. 93 South around 7 p.m. Tuesday.

The hitchhiker picked up along Montana 35 Tuesday night was “strange,” according to the motorist, who called Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies shortly after dropping off the bearded middle-aged man. The motorist was unable to articulate to authorities why the hitchhiker was strange, only that he was so.

A 15-year-old girl was arrested for shoplifting and obstruction after she apparently gave false information to deputies when they questioned her about stealing rings from a box store on U.S. 2 East around 9 p.m. Tuesday.

Medications were apparently taken from a purse inside a car parked outside a business on U.S. 2 East Tuesday night. The woman told deputies she had left the medications inside the vehicle while she ran into the business to use the restroom.

The fate of an owl is unknown after it was hit by a car near the intersection of Hodgson Road and Whitefish Stage around midnight Tuesday. Deputies responded to remove the bird, but couldn’t get ahold of the wildlife rehabilitation expert who typically cares for injured birds.

Alarms

A blue Volkswagen Beetle near the pumps of a North Meridian Road gas station was reportedly on fire around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, but the car’s owner was able to extinguish it before the Kalispell Fire Department arrived.