Car, lasers track walking woman
A silver 1999 Pontiac followed a woman walking along Liberty Street during the early hours Thursday, pointing laser beams at her. The creepy car was last seen turning north onto an unknown street. Kalispell Police are investigating.
A man was bitten in the hand by a neighbor’s dog Wednesday afternoon near a Sixth Avenue West residence. The dog’s owner wasn’t at home, so officers will follow up.
Unknown persons have been trespassing in the alley near Second Avenue West, leaving behind makeshift pipes from beer and pop cans.
Kids on “Turtle Island” have been killing turtles, a concerned citizen reported to police. Officers counseled the teens to leave the animals alone. There was no evidence of turtle deaths or injuries.
Neighbor relations turned ugly when a man apparently parked his motorcycle in the wrong spot near an apartment complex along Hawthorn Avenue Wednesday night. Although he told police his neighbor was threatening him with a shotgun, the neighbor alleges the shotgun was in its case inside the house the whole time. The matter has been forwarded to detectives for follow-up.
After a fight in the parking lot of a steak house on U.S. 93 South broke up around 1 a.m. Thursday, officers gave a person involved a ride to a nearby motel.
Driving without its lights on, a maroon four-door SUV headed through town around 4 a.m. Thursday, stopping at all of the flashing lights. The vehicle parked at the corner of First Avenue East North and East Washington. A man got out, got into the passenger seat of the vehicle, then got back out and started wandering in someone’s yard. Officers arrested him for DUI, DUI per se, resisting arrest and obstructing.
Someone apparently chopped up a swing set and an old chair with an ax Thursday afternoon. Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating. No address was available at press time.
The man who sits in a chair at a park in the Wagner Lane area, apparently watching children, makes a mother nervous. Deputies learned the man has no criminal history. City parks are public areas.
The group of kids who looked like they were getting ready to jump off a bridge near West Reserve were gone when deputies arrived around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Kids throwing rocks on the roof of a furniture store on Montana 35 were also gone when deputies arrived around 5 p.m. Wednesday.
A man apparently hit his girlfriend because he didn’t want her to leave a Welf Lane residence Wednesday evening. He was arrested for partner or family member assault.
An Egan Slough resident told deputies he would confront the people who are trespassing on his property, but he doesn’t have time.
A nearby renter complained about the loud music at a Coram bar around 11 p.m. Wednesday.
The glass section of a door to a Fox Hill Drive house mysteriously broke Thursday morning. There was no evidence of foul play.
While mowing her Sixth Avenue West lawn Wednesday afternoon, a woman was attacked by two Rottweilers that escaped from a neighbor’s yard. Columbia Falls Police cited the owner, who is reportedly working on his fence.
A piece of wood was discovered missing from the bear sculpture in Discovery Square around noon Thursday. Officers are investigating.
Alarms
One person was transported to Kalispell Regional Medical Center via Kalispell Ambulance after cutting off a finger Wednesday afternoon at a Trails End Drive residence.
At a different Trails End Drive residence about half an hour later, a woman hit her eye on a bookcase. Kalispell Ambulance transported her to Kalispell Regional Medical Center.
Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies took an injured bald eagle to a wildlife rehabilitation expert around 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Although the dump truck and vehicle involved in a head-on collision sustained front-end damage, no person was injured in the crash around 2:30 p.m. Thursday.