Partner assault call needs to be sorted out

Flathead County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested a Jolly Hill man in Marion for partner or family member assault after he allegedly tried to choke his wife. Both were drunk, and the wife was very uncooperative in a phone call, saying police never help her and hanging up. There was a prior physical disturbance at the home in which the wife was the aggressor. She hung up on a dispatcher a second time before deputies arrived.

A woman hiking on a trail on the east side of Whitefish Lake reported two people standing outside a sport utility vehicle on Del Rey Road shooting multiple rounds.

A green box in Somers was a little greener than normal Tuesday, when a person dumping their own trash found large bags full of trimmed marijuana and branches from the plants up to three feet long.

A Braig Road resident in Columbia Falls claimed someone purposely cut a tree in front of her home, causing it to fall on a tank and part of her house during a wind storm over the weekend. The deputy reported the branch appeared to have broken off, not to have been cut with a saw.

A Hungry Horse man on Second Street West reported his belief that his soon-to-be ex-wife had been in his house after discovering someone had been inside and realizing all the missing items belonged to her. The woman, who has a warrant out for her arrest for charges of criminal mischief and vandalism, had not yet been served a restraining order obtained by the man.

A U.S. 2 East man tried to take care of a non-existent warrant for his arrest after receiving a prank call from a man identifying himself as a sergeant with the Kalispell Police.

A Bando Lane woman found out her friend wasn’t the best person to watch her vehicle while she was out of the state after she came back and saw the vehicle in Whitefish, later discovering it had been sold as an abandoned vehicle despite the woman still having the title.

An employee of a Montana 35 auto dealership exhausted himself dealing with the theft of a carburetor.

A report of indecent exposure at the Flathead County Detention Center turned out to be an inmate with an injury. We didn’t want to know the rest of the details.

A Whitefish woman reported her husband stumbled upon a fort containing several items recently stolen from Happy Valley storage units.

The Kalispell Police Department received a premature report of a dead body in the area of Grandview Drive on Tuesday. A person walking in the nearby park reported she could see something lying still that looked like a body, and that her son got within 10 feet of the person and the person did not respond. When officers arrived, they found the man was perfectly alive, and advised him to leave the private property upon which he was sleeping.

Whitefish Police Department officers responded to Houston Point Drive after receiving a report of a pickup truck flipped over in a ditch with its lights on. The driver, who was not at the scene, was later located and determined not to need medical attention.

Dispatchers eventually overcame a poor phone connection to receive information about a man overdosing on heroin on Wisconsin Avenue who was breathing on his own, but was unconscious and blue in the face. He was transported to the hospital.

A concerned daughter was her 77-year-old mother’s guardian angel when she called police after not being able to get in touch with her. When officers arrived at the mother’s Bay Point Drive home, she was conscious and breathing but “definitely” needed medical treatment. She was transported to the hospital.

A trio of energetic retrievers were seen chasing deer on Whitefish City Beach. The dogs’ owner was counseled and put the animals on leashes.

An employee of a Good Avenue company complained about a serial thief taking their signs.