Couple attack house sitter

A 22-year-old woman was watching a house on Kings Way early Monday morning when a couple showed up and beat her up with a bat and tried to stab her with a knife. One woman was arrested on a preliminary charge of assault, the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office said.

A truck crashed into a bush and a mailbox at a house on West Cottonwood Drive Sunday night. The man driving the truck was believed to be intoxicated and fled the scene.

A conductor asked deputies to remove an intoxicated man from a train upon its arrival in Whitefish.

Earlier in the evening, deputies cited the owner of a pit bull that attacked another dog on Kings Way.

A suspected burglary was reported on Grand Drive in Bigfork.

Deputies were unable to locate a man in a red T-shirt who was reportedly playing chicken with trains.

A South Cedar Drive caller said a neighbor came out with a knife and asked if the caller’s kids were scared now. The alleged suspect told deputies he was just cutting trees with a chain saw and did not brandish a knife. Regardless, he was spoken to about brandishing knives and the perception it creates.

A man reportedly broke a window in a Hungry Horse store because the store would not sell him cigarettes.

A man allegedly threatened to slit the throat of a woman on Jellison Road.

Deputies received a complaint about a man who put an air horn on his ATV and blows it every time he drives by.

A drunk driver was arrested on Montana 35 in Bigfork. Three dogs in her vehicle were taken to the animal shelter.

A woman told deputies that a man from Yakima, Wash., left her in Hungry Horse and took her ID and purse and everything else she had in his van when he left.

Someone reported a lost wallet with $300, a driver’s license and credit cards in it.

A Hungry Horse man said someone broke into his shed a week ago.

A man told deputies that another man is paying one of his 15-year-old daughters $3 a week to send pictures of possibly nude women to his cellphone.

A Bigfork woman said she returned home from North Dakota to find lots of drug paraphernalia in her house.

A burglary on Sixth Street West was reported Monday morning to the Kalispell Police Department. The caller said medications were taken.

A man living in his van told police he was harassed at the grocery store.

Someone reported seeing a man walking down Fourth Street East and carrying a golf club like a weapon.

Sunday evening, someone popped the lock off a vehicle in a parking lot on U.S. 2.

Officers assisted Montana Highway Patrol with a motorcycle wreck at Cemetery Road and U.S. 93.

A caller told police that a graduation party at a city park was being disturbed by a man loudly preaching.

A woman told police that she was beat up by her ex-boyfriend and his sister-in-law. The woman said the attack happened in front of her baby.

Columbia Falls Police Department officers talked to an 8-year-old girl about stealing Sunday evening. The talk was at the request of the girl’s parents, who told police she has been stealing things.

A man on Seventh Street West said his neighbor was threatening him. The neighbor told the man that he put a curse on him and his family.

Sunday afternoon, Whitefish Police Department officers investigated a report of an assault with a weapon on East Second Street.

Criminal mischief was reported on Kalispell Avenue.

Later that night, an assault was reported on Wisconsin Avenue.