Missing 3-year-old found in vehicle
Kalispell Police located a 3-year-old child who had been missing for about half an hour Tuesday afternoon. He had gotten through or over a fence near his Stag Lane residence and into a vehicle in the back lot of a nearby business.
Occupants of a black Chevy Beretta were seen tossing beer cans from the vehicle as it drove along Fifth Avenue West North Monday afternoon.
Silver dollars, a wallet and a brown fleece jacket were stolen from a vehicle parked on Fifth Avenue West Monday night.
Police were unable to locate the source of the suspicious screams heard near Woodland Park Drive late Monday night.
A gun found Tuesday morning on the playground of a Second Street West school turned out to be a toy.
In retaliation for a Fourth Avenue East resident complaining of underage drinking and noise, neighbors reportedly damaged the resident’s truck around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Officers received 64 calls for service between 2:30 p.m. Monday and 2:30 p.m. Tuesday.
A deer limped away after it was momentarily knocked unconscious by a vehicle around 12:42 a.m. Monday. No people were harmed in the collision along U.S. 2 near the airport, according to Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies.
An East Evergreen Drive resident reportedly threatened a 5-year-old after the child flew a kite too close to her car. Deputies counseled those involved Tuesday morning.
A man and a woman on a four-wheeler reportedly drove down a private driveway around 7 p.m. Monday. When the Lakeshore Drive resident asked them what they needed, the two flipped her off and rode away.
After cashing numerous checks for a woman living in a mobile home, a man found a note on the vacant residence Tuesday afternoon reading, “ha ha, catch me now.”
At a Bigfork body shop to pick up her car, a woman called deputies after a mechanic reportedly wouldn’t give her the vehicle and shoved her to the ground. Deputies are investigating.
A Marion dog bit a 13-year-old boy hard enough to leave puncture marks around 6:42 p.m. Monday. The dog is still at large. Deputies are investigating.
A man and a woman arguing verbally at a mobile home park off Montana 35 around 11 p.m. were separated by deputies.
Deputies received 122 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Monday and 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Noticing spoiled groceries in the back seat of a neighbor’s vehicle, a Park Avenue resident called Whitefish Police to let them know that no one had been in or out of the residence in days. The person located inside was transported to North Valley Hospital around 11 a.m. Tuesday.
A woman called police Monday evening, nervous about the three men following her as she walked near a golf course on U.S. 93.
Officers received 21 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Monday and 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Columbia Falls Police received 19 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Monday and 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Alarms
A flaming tree near a Willow Glen Drive home was extinguished around 5:40 p.m. Monday.
Around 10:40 a.m. Tuesday, Flathead Electric customers primarily on the north end of Kalispell experienced an interruption in service as the result of a device failure at the Flathead Substation. Power was restored to the majority of members within 15 minutes. The stoplight at Idaho and Main was out as well. This outage was unrelated to Monday’s, which was caused by a squirrel.
Suspicious white beads seen spilling from a truck as it drove along U.S. 2 turned out to be fertilizer.
A bicyclist hit by a vehicle along Second Avenue West around 2 p.m. Tuesday refused ambulance transport.