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| July 18, 2012 8:31 PM

Deputies with the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office recently investigated an area along Libby Creek where two people reported finding what appeared to be two graves.

They also found a large amount of high-end little girl’s clothing, a rubber glove, a syringe, several dolls left in seemingly compromising positions as well as other items.

Upon investigation, deputies discovered each of the shallow graves held a dog.

Officers with the Kalispell Police Department responded to Airport Road after several shots were reported in the courtyard of an apartment complex. Witnesses on the scene told police that someone pointed the gun at people or actually shot at them. Even after police arrived at the scene, two more shots were heard. The suspect fled the scene in a vehicle.

A 42-year-old man was hit by a car and found covered in blood and unable to speak on 10th Avenue West. The man also seemed to have chest pain. The motorist who struck the pedestrian fled the scene of the accident, which was not believed to be the same location where the man was found.

A woman on Eighth Avenue West reported someone is harassing her and has loosened the lug nuts on her car three times in the last year.

Several youths broke into a friend’s house on Green Briar Drive and stole his father’s truck while he was gone, later wrecking it.

The owner of two pit bulls that attacked another dog on Fifth Avenue East was cited after one of the owners of the third dog was bit while trying to separate the dogs.

A motorist struck a power pole on Whitefish Stage Road, damaging a transformer and the vehicle. The vehicle’s muffler dragged on the road as it was driven away, throwing up sparks. A possible suspect was located by following a trail of car pieces down West Evergreen Drive.

A customer got in a fight with a bartender at a bar on Airport Road.

Roughly 14 tote boxes have been stolen from behind a store on West Idaho Street.

Cigarettes and pain medication were stolen from a vehicle in a parking lot on Hutton Ranch Road.

Possible drug activity was reported in an alley off First Avenue East North.

A pair of cars were scratched up in the parking lot of a business off U.S. 2 West.

A West Valley Acres resident contacted the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office to complain about her neighbor raking alcohol bottles onto her property because her husband is on probation and they are not allowed to have alcohol.

A group of three or four people cut locks on a gate, broke out a window and got inside a building on Aluminum Drive in Columbia Falls, stealing scrap metal and opening all the drawers. A security guard later chased three people in a car off the property who may have been the suspects. The bolt cutters used to cut the locks were left at the scene along with a Gatorade bottle and other evidence.

A man with a shopping cart was reported hanging around a store on U.S. 2 East in Hungry Horse, asking at least one person if they wanted to buy some weed.

Several teenagers were reported messing with mailboxes on Orchard Ridge Road.

Three children were reported driving a golf cart recklessly on Solberg Drive, nearly hitting a car.

A group of children had to wash the side of an East Evergreen Drive building with soap and a scrub brush after smearing mud all over it.

A report of shots fired on Willow Glen Drive turned up a resident’s use of fireworks.

An iPod was stolen on Holt Drive in Bigfork.

Jewelry was stolen from a home on Farm to Market Road.

The Columbia Falls Police Department responded to Sixth Street West after receiving a call from a man who said he had gotten into some trouble and wanted to turn himself in. When an officer responded, they found the man holding a gun to his chin. He was taken into custody for a mental health evaluation.

A bicycle was stolen from the library.

Officers responded to a fireworks call on Fifth Avenue West.

The Polson Police Department investigated a burglary at a landscaping business.

Criminal mischief was reported in the parking lot of a casino.

Officers with the Ronan Police Department arrested a person on an out-of-county warrant on Fifth Avenue South West.