'Creepy' man scares children
Saturday evening, a North Meridian Road woman told Kalispell Police a strange man came to her apartment door and scared her kids while she was taking the trash out. Her two boys answered the door and thought the man was “creepy” because he asked, “Where is your mother? Why are you all alone?” The woman asked for extra patrols and police added it to their hot sheet.
Earlier in the day, police arrested a man for drunk driving after someone reported him drinking from a can while driving erratically in his older green Cadillac with tinted windows.
A 19-year-old man was cited for theft at a store on Hutton Ranch Road . The man was apprehended and held for police by a shoe department employee.
A Two Mile Drive resident asked for extra patrols because items have been stolen from several vehicles and juveniles are hanging out in the parking lot at night.
Saturday night, police cited a juvenile for theft for shoplifting at a store on U.S. 93.
A girl’s Jeep was egged on Empire Loop. Family members told police they suspect her ex-boyfriend.
Around midnight, four men were fighting at a casino on U.S. 93 but had stopped and gone outside by the time police arrived. A few minutes later, a caller reported the same four men “trying to start fights with anyone” at a bar on Airport Road. The men were escorted from the property with a sober driver.
Responding early Sunday to an alarm at a business on U.S. 2, officers arrived to find the front door smashed open but no one inside.
An employee at a store on East Idaho Street said someone left without paying a $9.95 bill.
Saturday morning, a suspected poached deer was reported to Whitefish Police but proved unfounded. The caller found the deer on Colorado Avenue, its head cut off, back strips cut off and the rib cage and skin cut. An officer advised someone filled a tag for the deer and a dog got hold of the carcass.
Early Sunday morning a man told police he was assaulted. He said he was leaving a bar and bumped into another man. The bouncers took him into a corner and punched him multiple times in the head.
Columbia Falls Police took a man into custody Saturday to question him about a rash of vehicle break-ins.
A Third Street East man complained that someone keeps text messaging him pretending to be a 15-year-old girl who found him on Facebook. The man later advised it was a friend pulling a prank.
Saturday night, officers broke up an underage party on Rapids Avenue. County deputies were called out to help, with about 10 people in the house and a bunch who ran. The kids were sent home with parents.