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Hit-and-run incident turns ugly

| June 4, 2011 2:00 AM

Kalispell Police got a report Thursday involving a head-on hit-and-run incident on U.S. 93 near Hutton Ranch Plaza. The two vehicles pulled into a nearby parking lot, and the reporting party apparently started yelling at the other driver, who then struck his vehicle again and, he claimed, attempted to run him over before driving away.

A man calling from an East Idaho pawn shop said his friend asked him to pawn a necklace because the friend did not have identification. It turned out the necklace had been stolen.

A person calling Friday from Indian Trail Road reported that his roommate had stolen some of his belongings.

There was a report of a fight in the Hutton Ranch Road area, but it turned out to be a wrestling match between a father and son. The son was counseled about disorderly conduct.

A woman calling the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office from Lodgepole Drive in the Marion area reported that she loaned her cellphone to someone who didn’t give it back, and now she is claiming it has been stolen.

There was a report of screens being slit on five windows at a building on U.S. 93 North.

There was a report of a landscaping company truck hitting a fence and a sign on Swan Mountain Drive, causing lots of damage.

There was a report of a radio being stolen from a vehicle on Haugen Heights Road in the Whitefish area.

A woman calling from Dorothy Street in the Columbia Falls area reported that a man she knows was at her place with four men packing up things that do not belong to him.

A woman who reported being assaulted by a man in the Evergreen area last week called again requesting help in removing several unwanted people from her residence on U.S. 2 West. 

At about 1:43 a.m. Friday, there was a report of an intoxicated man breaking a window at a residence on Montana 35 in the Evergreen area, then getting into a physical altercation with several people before wandering off, wearing a gray hoodie and carrying a large duffel bag. At about 4:13 a.m., there was another call from the same address that the man had returned and was standing outside the residence with a rock in his hand. The call log was unclear whether he was ever apprehended by deputies.