'Fugitive' game becomes reality

Seeing two young men loitering near a Main Street hotel around 4 a.m. Wednesday, a Kalispell Police officer approached. The men said they were playing fugitive. Taking their names just in case, the officer learned one had actually a warrant and subsequently arrested him.

A man apparently called a candy store Monday afternoon, saying he was from the phone company and would shut off service if employees refused to answer questions. The phone company was advised of the situation.

The mother of a Liberty Street resident apparently refuses to stop calling.

A woman said that as she was out walking along Second Street East Tuesday evening, her dog was attacked by another dog.

Clutching a bag full of clothes, a dark-haired woman ran from a department store at a Kalispell shopping center and sped away in an early ’90s black truck. Officers were unable to locate the woman or the vehicle.

Officers received 79 calls for service between 2:30 p.m. Tuesday and 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.

After apparently banging on the door to a Ridgewood Terrace residence Tuesday night, a woman was waiting for her brother-in-law Wednesday morning and took photos of him. He told Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies he didn’t know what she wanted, but felt threatened.

Chickens belonging to a Riverstone Drive resident keep wandering into a neighbor’s yard. The offended party planned to speak with the chicken owner around 5 p.m. Tuesday.

A transient has apparently been camping on a neighbor’s property and smoking pot, a Columbia Falls Stage Road resident reported Tuesday night. The camp was vacant when deputies arrived.

Although her boyfriend has been trying to break up with her “for days,” a woman reportedly refused to leave an Idaho Hill Road residence around midnight Tuesday and said she would sit in the driveway until the sheriff showed up.

Near a Spotted Bear Road residence around 1 a.m. Wednesday, a small group of people were apparently hiding near the boat and knocking on the door, whispering and at times whistling. Deputies were unable to locate them.

Deputies received 173 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Tuesday and 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Whitefish Police arrested the man who said he was so angry he would blow up City Hall.

A man built a shack on an East Lake Shore Drive property, a resident reported Tuesday night. Officers advised the man where it was appropriate to camp and asked him to move along.

Teens have been “shooting stuff out of their mouths at animals” along Obrien Avenue, an observer told officers around 1 p.m. Wednesday.

Officers received 22 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Tuesday and 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.

The owner of a Ninth Street West auto repair service store came to work around 7 a.m. Wednesday to find a rear window broken and the cash register containing $200 missing along with two cases of synthetic oil. The burglary occurred sometime Tuesday night, according to Columbia Falls Police.

Officers received 15 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Tuesday and 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Alarms

A black helicopter was reported hovering over an Airport Road residence around 4 p.m. Tuesday. The man who said he saw it was advised to contact the Federal Aviation Administration.

A man, too intoxicated to be arrested, was banging on the door of a Hungry Horse bed and breakfast before he passed out around 11 p.m. Tuesday. He was taken to North Valley Hospital.

The woman bitten by a dog in the Mallard Loop area was taken to Kalispell Regional Medical Center by private vehicle around 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Following a three-vehicle collision near the intersection of Whitefish Stage Road and Reserve around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, one person was taken to Kalispell Regional Medical Center with a stiff neck.

Around noon Wednesday, a biker was hit by a white Ford Explorer along First Avenue West North. The car was last seen heading northbound on Fourth Street West. The biker sustained injuries to the leg, foot and elbow but refused medical treatment.

The person who fell 10 feet from ladder at a Marco Bay residence was transported via Lakeside Ambulance to Kalispell Regional Medical Center around 2 p.m. Wednesday.