Gunman turns out to be 'hollow man'
Tuesday morning, Kalispell Police got a report of a man in camouflage pointing a rifle with an orange tip on it at the fairgrounds from a nearby rooftop on West Wyoming Street. A woman said her grandson had spotted the man as they were driving by. The gunman, however, turned out to be a Halloween prop. Officers removed the dummy from the roof and left a note asking the property owner to not use guns as a prop.
A woman’s car door was kicked in at the hospital parking lot.
More than $1,000 of tools were reported stolen on Sunny View Lane.
A 20-year-old man living in a camper with a pit bull in a parking lot on Hutton Ranch Road is suspected of taking or dealing drugs because he doesn’t want to take a urine test, a caller said.
A contractor reported tools stolen on Sunny View Lane.
Later Tuesday, a man reported for going through trash on Fourth Avenue East told police he’s just hunting for treasures. Police warned him that people are watching him.
A grandma wanted to know why her 15-year-old grandson was arrested.
A woman complained that someone is posting pictures of her on the website Craigslist.
Early Wednesday morning, fireworks were heard near Third Avenue East and 11th Street East.
A dump truck collided with another vehicle on U.S. 93 near Hutton Ranch Road. No one was injured.
A Ford Taurus and a Cadillac collided at East Montana Street and Fourth Avenue East North. Several people were injured.
A woman’s truck was keyed on Third Avenue West. A profanity was scratched onto its side.
Someone reported seeing a seagull with a blow dart stuck in its chest. The animal warden said the bird didn’t appear to be in pain and he couldn’t catch it.
A suitcase full of investigative papers was found on Third Avenue East North.
A woman told police that her 16-year-old daughter ran away and is with a chocolate lab and a weenie dog and possibly a 28-year-old man who has been giving her daughter meth.
Someone tried to break into a home on Sixth Street West.
On Monday, someone reported $60 taken from a wallet while it was sitting on the bar.
A stolen bicycle was found at a pawn shop on East Idaho.
A backpack was stolen from a vehicle at the post office on Meridian Road.
A semi truck lost its load on U.S. 93 at 18th Street East.
Someone smashed a window and stole a purse out of a Honda on U.S. 2.
A wallet was stolen from a locker at Glacier High School.
Someone smashed a window and stole a purse from a car at the community college.
An iPod and camcorder were stolen from a locked vehicle parked at the mall.
Tuesday morning, a Bigfork business owner told the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office that money was missing from the cash box and someone had to have a key to take it.
Things were stolen from a car on Peaceful Drive and two cars on Lake Hills Drive in Bigfork. Another car was rummaged through on Crestview Drive.
A man said someone stole an electric guitar, laptop and DVD player from his house on U.S. 2.
A bag was stolen from a vehicle on Emerald Drive in Whitefish.
A Martin City man wanted to turn his two dogs and three cats over to the animal shelter. Instead, the shelter donated enough food for the man to keep the dogs and cats for two more months as he tried to line up a job.
A gun was stolen from a vehicle on Mission Way in Kalispell.
Dogs attacked a man’s chickens on McMannamy Draw.
A woman’s iPod was taken from a vehicle on Nicholson Drive in Kalispell.
Someone saw an empty canoe floating down the river near Columbia Falls.
Deputies were advised to be on the lookout for a North Dakota man going to live in the woods near Kalispell.
An air compressor was stolen from a garage in Lakeside.
The mother of a student said her son told her another student tried to sexually assault him.
Tuesday evening, a wallet was stolen from an unlocked vehicle on Nordic Loop in Whitefish.
A Lakeside man told deputies that a woman with a beer in her hand and another in her pocket and an “I voted” sticker on her shirt was sitting in front of his house and refusing to leave, claiming he stole her dog.
Someone stole a computer from the high school, a caller told Columbia Falls Police on Tuesday.
A car window was smashed out in the high school parking lot.
Items were stolen from a car parked on Fourth Avenue West.
A Sixth Street West man told police he has four nice bicycles to donate.
Tuesday afternoon, a Baker Avenue woman told Whitefish Police a bicyclist stopped at her house and yelled the F-word at her about her political beliefs. Police caught up with the man, who said he was yelling because his mail kept falling off his bike.
A Houston Drive caller reported an alarm going off since Saturday.