Law enforcement roundup

Flathead County sheriff’s deputies joined in the search for a husband and wife who had driven with three children up Blacktail Mountain Saturday before calling about 8 p.m. to report they were stuck in a couple feet of snow and were without jackets in 45-degree weather. They were concerned about the woman’s diabetes, the sheriff’s office reported.

Flathead and Lake County search and rescue teams were called out, but it was ALERT helicopter that finally located the family about 3 a.m. Everybody was fine, the sheriff’s office said, and the family was taken to a local hotel for the night.

Snowmobiling friends were concerned about their diabetic buddy, a 34-year-old man who had mechanical problems with his snow machine and got separated from the rest of the group on the back side of Big Mountain Saturday night. He spent the night in a warming hut but when he wasn’t back by 11:30 a.m. Sunday, North Valley Search and Rescue was called out and apparently tracked him down about 12:40 p.m. ALERT helicopter landed and checked on him. He made it out safely.

Mailbox casualties numbered between 10 and 20 after a vehicle apparently drove recklessly along Vonderheide Lane and Judd’s Way overnight.

It was paintballers 2, homeowners 0, after a spree in Hungry Horse Saturday night.

A traffic stop on Cemetery Road late Saturday ended with a trip to jail for a man accused of drunk driving.

Just a half-hour before midnight, an alarm at a huckleberry business in Hungry Horse turned up a broken window. Deputies were investigating Sunday afternoon.

At nearly 3 a.m., deputies suspect it was a case of mistaken address identity when a woman reportedly broke into a Solberg Drive house, then scrambled back into a car with a man and left.

A stolen stereo report came in from Hungry Horse. A camera and box of miscellaneous items went missing from a Jellison Road home.

One of the arguers left before deputies arrived at a U.S. 2 home east of Kalispell, where a disturbance was reported Sunday morning.

Deputies are investigating threats at a home southeast of Columbia Falls.

Deputies received 140 calls for assistance between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Kalispell police are investigating a report from 10th Avenue West that four men beat up a young man Sunday afternoon. Two of the assailants ran away, and the other two were being detained in the apartment when police were called. The victim, whose face was bleeding, refused an ambulance ride to the hospital.

Complaints and questions about a tattoo parlor/dance club on South Main came in to police three times by 12:30 a.m. The final complaint was about broken glass in the road and 15 people hanging around outside the club. The suspicion was that they had been throwing beer bottles.

A caller just before 8 p.m. first told dispatchers she couldn’t find her keys. Then she said her boyfriend wouldn’t giver her the keys, but that was a good thing because she was drunk. Dispatchers heard a male voice yelling at the caller in the background, then the caller hung up. Police couldn’t get the man to answer the door, but found no signs of a physical fight.

Officers requested Child Protective Services for an 8-month-old baby after a noise complaint Saturday night.

Police stopped a driver on Airport Road just after midnight and ended up arresting a 20-year-old man for DUI and careless driving, and a 20-year-old woman for possession of alcohol.

Two guys in a green Mustang threw a road cone at somebody walking near the East Idaho underpass, the pedestrian told police.

Chest-shoving and shining light beams in a person’s eyes were the stuff of a complaint at an East Idaho restaurant early Sunday.

At a nearby motel, liquor, drugs and sex between adults and underage girls were the allegations a couple hours later.

Two complaints came in at 3:15 and 3:45 a.m. about a noisy party on Fifth Avenue East.

A large group of kids smoking cigarettes and hanging out near a Second Avenue West grocery were up to no good, the caller told dispatchers Sunday afternoon. Dispatch let officers know.

Officers received 127 calls for assistance between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Columbia Falls police arrested a 54-year-old man for DUI in a traffic stop along U.S. 2 West early Sunday.

Somebody reportedly stole a wheelchair from a garage on Sixth Avenue East North.

Officers received 30 calls for assistance between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Whitefish police are investigating a possibly counterfeit $10 bill that was passed at a Whitefish pizza restaurant.