Treacherous roads cause 17 crashes

Slippery, snowy roads led to quite a bit of work for local emergency responders and law enforcement agencies Friday. Due largely to recent weather conditions, responders were called to 17 accidents in Kalispell and Columbia Falls between 6:30 a.m. and 1:38 p.m.

A 13-year-old girl trying to get some sleep led to a response from the Kalispell Police Department on 11th Street West early Friday morning. When her parents came home from the bar with a friend at 3 a.m., the girl came out of her room and yelled for everyone to quiet down, because she was trying to sleep. At that point, the girl’s mother screamed obscenities at her and told her to stay in her room, the friend told police. The friend also reported the girl had said her mother had hit her, and that the mother said her daughter had it coming. The friend left when the girl’s mother reportedly threatened to kill her. An officer checked on the children and the residence and said everything was fine.

The owner of a business on Second Street West reported that someone entered another business in the same building overnight. A window at the business was broken and a cash box was stolen.

A girl was photographed while driving by a person who followed her into a parking lot on Claremont Street. Police believe it was a case of road rage.

Officers were unable to locate a pair of indecent teenage boys wandering around Jackson Peak Drive, where one urinated in the road.

Deputies from the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office were unable to get usable shoe prints or fingerprints at the scene of a trespassing involving an unlocked vehicle and a rental unit. According to the landlord, nothing appeared to be missing. There were footprints leading to the rental from the road, but recent snow showers and snow plow activity had made the prints unusable. The man advised deputies that things had disappeared from there before.

A good Samaritan in Evergreen gave up more than just her time and gasoline when she gave two strangers a ride to a fast food restaurant and back to their home. When she returned to her own home, she found a bottle of seizure medication she had picked up before picking up the strangers was missing from her purse.

A newspaper deliverer in Evergreen returned from his route to discover his vehicle on Solberg Drive had been ransacked and change was missing.

Someone may have attempted to burglarize a business on U.S. 2 East in Kalispell, where a window was broken and a screen removed.

The Whitefish Police Department received a report of theft on Wisconsin Avenue.

Drug activity was reported on South Main Street.

The Polson Police Department located counterfeit money after responding to a report of fraud on Bayview Drive.