Turns out, recording was illegal

A Swan River Road man in Bigfork was counseled after contacting the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office to report he had recorded a conversation with his wife about putting his child into a school without his knowledge, violating their custody agreement.

After complaining that the recording no longer worked and that he was concerned it may have been tampered with, he was told it is against state law to record conversations without the knowledge of both parties. He then withdrew his complaint.

An upset Wilson Heights resident reported he caught his neighbor’s bulldog tearing up his flower bed.

A woman was arrested on a warrant during a welfare check on Montana 35.

Someone threw a rock through a window of a building on Wood Run Court in Whitefish.

Graffiti was reported all over the front of a building on U.S. 2 East in Columbia Falls.

Mail was stolen on Larch Lane.

A vehicle escaped by virtue of a self-created smokescreen after an officer with the Kalispell Police Department driving behind the vehicle lost it. The car was initially reported to police because a witness believed it was on fire as it was traveling south on U.S. 93. It was determined not to be burning anything but oil.

A shocked Third Avenue West woman reported that when she took her trash out she discovered someone had painted “die” in white on the side of her garbage can.

A First Avenue East mother was counseled after an officer found her 7-year-old boy and his two siblings, roughly 3 or 4 years old, wandering around by themselves.

A trio of boys wearing hoodies were caught trying to escape a Third Avenue East North business after shoplifting.

A concerned father reported his son was buying drugs from an apartment on First Avenue East.

A wallet was stolen from the poker room of a bar on South Meridian Road.

Someone smashed a window on and burglarized a vehicle on Eighth Avenue West.

Someone slashed a tire on a truck on Northwest Lane.

A woman who reported to the Whitefish Police Department that she had been assaulted by her roommate at their Iowa Avenue residence later canceled her request for charges after saying it had taken too long and the man would not be back that night. Officers later completed a civil standby for the pair so the man could pick up his belongings.

A man told police he believed his pockets had been picked while at a U.S. 93 South business.

A man was arrested and a woman warned about her warrant during a traffic stop on U.S. 93 South.

A bicycle, bicycle rack and milk crate were stolen on Wisconsin Avenue.

A box of checks and other items were stolen from a Lupfer Avenue apartment.

Columbia Falls Police officers turned a boy over to his father after he was reported flashing a flashlight around on U.S. 2 East.

A woman was arrested on a warrant on Ninth Street West.

Graffiti was reported on a U.S. 2 East building.

The Polson Police Department discovered a burglarized vehicle at a hospital while investigating a report of suspicious activity.