Report of beating turns out to be muddled
Kalispell Police received a report of two young kids beating up an older man in the bed of a truck parked in the lot of a box store on U.S. 93 North around 7 p.m. Tuesday. Officers on the scene determined the incident was actually a roommate dispute. One man left the scene prior to law-enforcement arrival and the other man, who was uninjured, told officers he didn’t wish to press charges.
A man reportedly stole medications from his mother around 2:37 p.m. Tuesday. Officers are investigating.
The back passenger window was broken out of a white Hummer as it was parked along Third Street West Tuesday.
A 6-year-old boy was reported missing around 4:52 p.m. Tuesday. After a thorough search, he was located in the parking lot of the Liberty Street apartment complex where he lives. He had reportedly gone to a friend’s home without telling his mother.
Police were unable to locate the kids on bikes with BB guns seen riding along Third Street West Tuesday evening.
Neighbor kids have been damaging the yard of a for-sale home when they try to play with the rabbits living there, according to an Eighth Avenue East resident.
Informed of his citation for letting his pit bull run at large, the dog’s owner reportedly told police they could keep the animal if they located it.
Officers received 68 calls for service between 2:30 p.m. Tuesday and 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Suspicious garbage attracted the attention of Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies, who determined the olive-green plastic case wrapped in duct tape was not a bomb, as had been reported. It was located near the edge of a ski trail in a park near Foy’s Lake Road around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Walking out of a Hungry Horse school around 8 p.m. Tuesday, a car owner noticed smeared petroleum jelly all over the windshield.
An arguing couple had separated by the time deputies arrived around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday. The man, saying he needed to cool off, reportedly left for Alabama.
Deputies received 137 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Tuesday and 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Whitefish Police received 16 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Tuesday and 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Columbia Falls Police received 20 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Tuesday and 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Alarms
In the throes of a medical emergency, a woman reportedly tried to drive herself to Kalispell Regional Medical Center. Heading northbound on Main Street from Idaho, the woman’s truck reportedly sideswiped a black truck, drove up on the median, hit a curb and turned onto Sunnyview Lane, at which point an ambulance was dispatched to take her the rest of the way.
A 10-acre grass fire in the Helena Flats Road area got close to a structure, but according to Evergreen Fire Rescue, crews were able to knock it down before any structures, vehicles or people were threatened. Reported as a one-acre fire around 2:28 p.m. Wednesday, the blaze grew tenfold before crews subdued the flames, clearing the scene around 5:43 p.m. Wednesday.
The front wheels of a vehicle reportedly broke through the ice on Bitterroot Lake Wednesday morning. Marion Fire Department was able to extract the vehicle.
Feeling light-headed as he drove near Point of Rocks, a 29-year-old man pulled over and called 911. When an ambulance arrived, however, he refused transport and apparently felt good enough to get back in his truck and drive away.
Two elderly women were transported to Kalispell Regional Medical Center after a head-on collision around 10:18 a.m. Wednesday on Truman Creek Road. One driver apparently sustained a broken femur; the other was in stable condition.