Man reports fears of Mafia, FBI
The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office was kept busy by a Kalispell man who reported the Mafia and the FBI were after him and that people wanted him dead. The man called twice on Thursday, saying he had received a text message saying, “You have until 9 or they’ll be dead,” and once on Friday, when he reported there was someone on the roof of his home. All of the reports were believed to be unfounded.
A man with a lot of patience and passing similarities to Lazarus reported his car was stolen. The man told police it had been stolen from the Flathead Lake lookout area in 1979, but that he was in the hospital at the time and died, then came back to life and returned to Lakeside, where he discovered the car was missing. He was advised that the 30-year statute of limitations on stolen vehicles had expired.
A transient woman with a history that included pulling a knife on people was reported by a pastor for hiding in his church and threatening to kill people. Deputies were able to remove her from the building, and the pastor did not choose to file charges.
A neighborly dispute on Ezy Drive devolved into one threatening to shoot the other’s rabbits for procreating on and damaging his property, and the other threatening to shoot the first neighbor’s cat if he shot the rabbits. The first neighbor was advised to shoot the rabbits if they caused problems on his property.
An inquisitive Shady Lane resident discovered a pair of registered sex offenders lived in the area and reported them to police after finding out they had followed his 16-year-old daughter around a motel courtyard area.
A confused motorist reported being were tricked when a small black sports car pulled out behind the driver and turned on a siren, then sped by smiling and waving.
A concerned motorist reported someone, who was possibly suicidal, in a small truck had swerved deliberately into the wrong lane and the path of an oncoming semi-trailer.
Someone took motorized fun to the links in Columbia Falls, spinning brodies in a fairway.
The West Valley Fire Department fire hall was burglarized.
A suspicious herby smell led to two calls to the Kalispell Police Department, including one of a person smoking marijuana in an apartment on North Meridian Road, and one of people in two vehicles smoking marijuana in a Lawrence Park parking lot.
A fed-up fast-food employee reported someone had come through the drive-through and thrown a cup of tea at her. The night prior, someone had blown an air horn in her ear, although she was unsure if both annoyances were by the same people.
A person either not very pleased with the Grand Old Party or not wanting to pay for his own showing of support stole all the Republican yard signs from a home on Fifth Avenue West
A thief looking for his own payday stole payroll checks from an unlocked vehicle on Third Avenue East.
A boy was arrested on a warrant on Fourth Avenue West.
The Whitefish Police Department responded to a Peregrine Lane home where the resident reported a deer with an arrow through it had run through his yard. Shortly thereafter, a bowhunter came through looking for the animal.
A thief with places to go stole the tires and wheels off a vehicle on Edgewood Place.