Downed power lines cause accident
Bigfork Ambulance and the Montana Highway Patrol responded to a car accident at the intersection of Somers Road and U.S. 93 South on Wednesday after a utility pole fell on the vehicle and power lines fell across the road.
An Alberta Street resident contacted the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office to report that her granddaughter, who was on parole and had an ankle bracelet, had run away.
An angry man slashed the tires on a vehicle and made threatening phone calls to the owner, a Columbia Falls resident, saying he was going to hurt him.
An unruly man was seen pounding on windows and throwing drinks in a business on Central Avenue in Martin City.
A drunk driver on West Reserve Drive in Kalispell was reported swerving, almost causing an accident, driving the wrong way down a one-way street and running three stop signs.
Deputies responded to Tamarack Lane in Columbia Falls after a resident reported her neighbors’ music was up so loud it was shaking her house.
A Slow Down Lane resident in Bigfork requested assistance removing a woman from her home. She had let the woman stay with her for a couple of days after being in the hospital because the woman had nowhere to go, but advised that they were now not getting along. The woman’s brother picked her up.
A Kila woman reported a theft after her dog was to be shipped to her Browns Meadow Road home, but the person who was bringing the dog turned around.
Someone cut the lock on a gate to an Aluminum Drive property in Columbia Falls.
A panhandler who was either very clever or very naive was reported to the Kalispell Police Department after she was seen walking up to cars on Hutton Ranch Road and standing in front of the “no panhandling” sign when the light turned green. She was advised to move along.
A man looking for an early Black Friday deal walked out of a Third Avenue East North business on Wednesday without paying for a cart full of items.
A thief possibly breaking the law in order to avoid police in the future broke into a vehicle on Woodland Avenue and stole a radar detector.
A shrewd Parkridge Drive resident reported receiving a scam call from someone in Jamaica claiming she had won $2.5 million. The resident said the caller knew the town she lived in and the stores she shops at.
A repeat equine offender was caught at the Flathead County Fairgrounds. The horse had previously been caught on South Meridian Road the night before. Both incidents were the result of fencing issues being dealt with by the owner.
Four youths were reported smoking marijuana in a car on Third Avenue East North. When police located and questioned the driver, he refused to let officers search his vehicle.
A woman was arrested on Woodland Park Drive after it was reported that she was hitting a man who owes her $10,000.
A Fifth Avenue East woman reported her brother had slashed all the tires and broken the windows on her car, possibly in retaliation for a fight she’d had with his girlfriend.
A woman was told not to return to a hotel on U.S. 93 South after she was seen hanging around the building after having been evicted from the property.
A 10th Avenue West resident received a nasty Thanksgiving Day surprise when he returned home Thursday evening and found that someone had come in through his window, stolen his electronics and flipped over his bed.
A Sixth Street West woman reported her boyfriend assaulted her while she was trying to watch television.
Someone siphoned 28 gallons of fuel from a U-Haul truck on North Meridian Road.
Someone stole a license plate off a car in a parking lot on either U.S. 93 North, Hutton Ranch Road or West Center Street.
Camera equipment was stolen from a building on Second Street East.
A Columbia Drive resident contacted the Columbia Falls Police Department after a man wearing a plaid shirt walked into the home and just stood there until the homeowner ran him out.
A man upset that an employee wouldn’t accept his identification for buying alcohol punched out a window at a Ninth Street West business.
A vehicle reported stolen on Ferndale Drive in Bigfork was located by the Lake County Sheriff’s Office when deputies responded to a vehicle accident on Bug Creek Road.
The Polson Police Department discovered a person in possession of toxic substances after responding to a vehicle accident.