Grizzly bears visit Bigfork yard
Seeing two grizzly bears in the yard, a Wolf Creek Drive resident apparently fired once over their heads to scare them, but to no avail. A grizzly bear management specialist set traps for the bears Tuesday morning.
A Buddha statue weighing around 100 pounds was stolen from the front porch of an Essex Place residence sometime Monday night, according to a report made to the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office.
A man was arrested for partner or family member assault and violating a restraining order after he showed up at a bar on Montana 35 frequented by his girlfriend. The two apparently fought in the parking lot around 6 p.m. Monday.
Clothes were reportedly stolen from a Willow Glen residence around 8:30 p.m. Monday.
Deputies plan to trap the aggressive cat seen prowling around Shadow Lane Monday night.
The injured owl found on Fir Terrace was taken to a bird specialist around 10 p.m. Monday.
Someone apparently looked into the windows of a Solberg Drive residence just before midnight Monday.
An intoxicated and uncooperative person claimed to have been assaulted at a restaurant late Monday night. Deputies advised the subject to call back when sober.
The man who walked around a Maple Drive residence, setting off the motion lights, was gone when deputies arrived soon after 3 a.m. Tuesday.
A man drove through the lawn and “deliberately tore it up,” a Magstadt Lane resident reported Tuesday afternoon.
Deputies received 134 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Monday and 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Someone was handing out “vitamin” samples at a store on West Idaho Street Monday afternoon, a man told police, but the caller claimed the samples were actually urine.
The intoxicated man seen stumbling into traffic along Woodland Park Drive was gone when officers arrived around 3:30 p.m. Monday.
Calling to report road rage along U.S. 93 Monday afternoon, a woman apparently changed her mind as the offending vehicle pulled out of her way.
Monday night, a woman apparently became irate after a man told her she was illegally parked.
Officers are investigating a late-night incident at an inn on U.S. 93 South during which a man apparently put his hands around his wife’s neck.
Officers retrieved the knife found in the bushes near a Third Avenue East North grocery and placed it in safekeeping around 8 a.m. Tuesday.
Officers received 82 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Monday and 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Finding a middle-aged man lying in the alley near Second Street Monday afternoon, Whitefish Police took him to North Valley Hospital.
Officers received 13 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Monday and 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Columbia Falls Police are investigating a possible fight between two students at Columbia Falls Junior High.
Officers received 14 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Monday and 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Alarms
Around 5 p.m. Monday, Evergreen Fire Rescue responded to a report of a large cottonwood about to come down on the railroad tracks near Nicholson Drive, but couldn’t find it.
A tree took powerlines with it as it fell onto a car parked along Harbor Heights Boulevard around 5:30 p.m. Monday.
It is unknown how a woman sustained burns to her legs and hand at a McCaffery Road residence around 10 a.m. Tuesday. Bigfork Ambulance transported her to Kalispell Regional Medical Center.