Facebook 'joke' was an explosive threat

An explosive Facebook “joke” led to a Kalispell Police Department response on Monday, when a boy posted a status saying a pipe bomb had been placed in an area business’s bathroom and would go off in a few minutes. Officers and security guards were able to check all the restrooms and nothing suspicious was found. Police later made contact with the boy who told them it was a joke to one of his friends, not a threat.

A concerned father reported his children are staying with their mother and her boyfriend in Kalispell and that the boyfriend stepped on a kitten in front of his children.

A report of a grenade on the side of North Meridian Road turned out to be a smoke bomb that was picked up by officers.

Officers made contact with a Liberty Street woman who said she had been awake for three days, had no food and was starving.

A sexual assault was reported by an inmate at the Flathead County Detention Center.

Someone broke into a Second Street West home through the kitchen window and stole a jewelry box.

A pair of women stole several movies from a store on Third Avenue East North.

A wallet was stolen at a grocery store on U.S. 93 South.

Flathead County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested a woman on several active warrants during a traffic stop on U.S. 2 East in Kalispell.

A motorist reported a sharp concern after a crate of glass bottles fell from a vehicle and shattered all over U.S. 2 East in Kalispell.

A woman was warned to put out the fire she had started in the middle of Conn Road in Columbia Falls.

Whitefish Police Department officers asked a guitarist to move along after he was reported to be playing the instrument in an East Seventh Street business that was apparently not in the mood for music.

A group of six suspicious teenagers were reported walking up and down Colorado Avenue, which they had done three times in a row.

The Columbia Falls Police Department received a call from a clerk at a Ninth Street West business after a man and an underage woman tried to buy alcohol.

A couple of empty egg cartons were found on Martha Road, where one vehicle had been egged.

A man was arrested on an active warrant during a traffic stop on ninth Street West.