Law officers busy this weekend

Fireworks, noise and criminal mischief kept Flathead County Sheriff's Office deputies busy over the holiday weekend.

A Trumble Creek Road resident was worried that fireworks going off in that neighborhood on Sunday night would interfere with incoming flights at Glacier Park International Airport. Deputies responded but were unable to locate any pyrotechnics.

A fireworks rocket hit a house on Cooperative Way in the Kalispell area and deputies arrived to talk to both the fuse-lighter and the recipient of the unwanted blast.

On Halfmoon Flats Road in West Glacier, a report was filed about campers not following the 10 p.m. fireworks curfew. Fireworks displays also were unwelcome on Stoner Creek Road in Lakeside and on Ridge Run Court near Whitefish.

A couple of firearms thefts were reported in different neighborhoods. A shotgun was taken from a vehicle parked on Haven Drive in Kalispell. And a Coon Hollow Road resident in Kila said he'd been out of town for several months and upon returning found a 40-caliber automatic pistol with a fully loaded clip missing from his vehicle. He said his wife had been driving the car, so the gun may have been stolen somewhere in Kalispell.

An XM radio valued at $120 was stolen from a vehicle on Kelly Road.

Someone blew up a mailbox on Bald Rock Road.

Two separate reports regarding smashed back windshields of vehicles came in, one on Peaceful Drive in Bigfork and the other on Old U.S. 2 East in West Glacier.

A bunch of loud teens partying and drinking on Parliament Drive turned out to be adults, not kids.

Deputies responded to a report of two teenagers spray-painting graffiti in a tunnel just past the Foy's Lake roundabout. Officers found old vandalism but nothing freshly painted.

A dock was reported floating down the Swan River where it got hung up on a bridge pylon.

A storage unit on U.S. 2 East was burglarized and three large artillery packs were reported missing.

On East Evergreen Drive, a resident drove an all-terrain vehicle through three fence lines and left tire marks.

Whitefish police responded to numerous complaints about fireworks all across town, including Iowa, Dakota and Minnesota avenues and Sixth Street East. In most cases verbal warnings were issued.

Officers arrested 19 teenagers who were suspected of being minors in possession of alcohol at Whitefish Lake on Monday afternoon.

The Kalispell Police Department did not have office personnel available on the July 4 holiday, so a full report was unavailable.