Partygoers experience group blackout

A partygoer with a case of amnesia contacted the Whitefish Police Department after discovering he wasn’t the only one who blacked out for several hours. The man said he was afraid they had been drugged.

One hotel guest thought “Have Gun — Will Travel” included leaving the gun behind, forgetting a loaded pistol in their room when checking out. The firearm later was returned to the owner. 

The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office and the SWAT team responded to a Cemetery Road home for a suicidal man barricaded in his home. The team was able to talk with the man, who later exited the house voluntarily.

A nap had disastrous consequences in Hungry Horse, where a vehicle was stolen, taken for a joy ride and crashed while the owner was asleep.

A dead dog reported on the ice of Foy’s Lake turned out to be a plastic toy horse.

 A passerby reported a man who may be dead or alive lying by a garbage can behind a Woodland Park Drive business Tuesday afternoon less than 40 minutes before the man was due to be in court for a hearing on the possible revocation of a probationary sentence. Kalispell Police Department officers transported the man to the Flathead County Justice Center.

  An unhappy East Idaho Street man reported that he loaned a gun to a friend, and the friend repaid his trust by pawning the gun.

A steamed Airport Road resident complained that his neighbors — who he accused of being drug users and dealers — had blocked him in his driveway and he couldn’t leave for work.

An Empire Loop resident failed to catch a dog wandering the neighborhood that was missing one leg and one eye, as well as a collar.

A woman was arrested after a fight on 18th Street East at U.S. 93 South, where one person was yelling “call the cops.”

A man almost took himself out with the trash when he got himself and his truck locked inside a waste facility and the Columbia Falls Police Department had to contact the facility’s manager to let him out.