Burglar takes time for a meal

Kalispell Police Department received a report from a woman on Seventh Avenue East Wednesday who said it appeared as though someone had burglarized her home and eaten dinner. A window leading to the home’s basement had been broken.

A man on Third Street West returned home to find that an Xbox and DVDs had been stolen and that someone had apparently rifled through several drawers.

An officer responded to a verbal disturbance on East Nicklaus Avenue where a man said his estranged girlfriend had taken his keys and cellphone and was breaking things. The officer learned the woman broke only a photograph of herself and the man, which belonged to her.

Someone at the intersection of Seventh Avenue West North and West Washington Street wanted to file a report after seeing someone throw dog feces in the road.

Pain pills were reportedly stolen from a vehicle parked at a business on Hutton Ranch Road.

The victim of a theft reported on Eighth Street East said she found some of her stolen jewelry at a pawn shop.

After an employee at a business on U.S. 93 North accused a driver of leaving without paying for $8 in gasoline, the driver told the officer he had indeed paid for it.

Someone was seen near a vacant building on East Idaho Street holding a crowbar.

A man on First Street West said he detained a 12-year-old boy he caught breaking a limb of one of his trees.

Someone stole a laptop computer from an unlocked vehicle parked near U.S. 93 South.

Flathead County Sheriff’s Office deputies were unable to locate a man who was reportedly seen exposing himself and carrying a knife on a trail near the Old Steel Bridge off of Holt Stage Road.

Burglary was reported at a church on U.S. 93 North where someone broke a window and stole speakers.

Someone took a television, DVD player and generator from a home on Marjorie Street in Columbia Falls.

A wallet was stolen from a vehicle on Mission Trail.

Fraud was reported on Kelley Road after a woman reported that an unknown person used her credit card account to buy shoes.

Pain medication was stolen from an 84-year-old man on West Lakeshore Drive in Whitefish for a second time.

On Montana 35, someone was accused of stealing electricity.

The theft of a 12-foot boat and a motor was reported by a resident of Rest Haven Drive near Whitefish.

A man on U.S. 2 East in Essex was taken to Kalispell Regional Medical Center for a mental evaluation after allegedly trying to hit his son with a steel bar.

A caller in Tennesse wanted to report that his or her brother-in-law had placed a roadblock on Kila Hill in Kila to prevent family members from entering the property in an apparent escalation of a continuing dispute.

A vehicle was egged on Mountain View Drive, a home was egged on Solberg Drive and a boat was egged on Park Drive.

A woman on U.S. 2 East in Coram claimed that she was kicked out of a bar because she witnessed a possible drug deal and reported it to police.