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One of the great questions of our time was answered Wednesday on State Park Road in Whitefish, where it was reported to the Whitefish Police Department that a tenant at the senior apartments was “the one who let the dogs out.” One of those dogs, which belonged to a person visiting the tenant, allegedly bit another person’s dog several days prior.
An animal report on Texas Avenue turned out to be slightly exaggerated after it was initially reported that a bear had tipped over a garbage can during the evening and dragged garbage across the property into a neighboring yard. The caller said he and his neighbors had restraining orders against one another and that the garbage included items he did not want to pick up. It was later discovered that the culprit was a dog belonging to one of the neighbors.
A Texas Avenue location was added to a list for extra patrols after a resident complained about youths leaving school and going to the location to smoke dope.
A drunken driver was arrested on U.S. 93 South.
A man who may have been going for the most clueless burglar of the year award was arrested by Kalispell Police officers while trying to break into a Corporate Drive business. While the man was kneeling by a keypad, trying to manipulate it and pushing on the door, an employee inside was watching his every move on a security camera and calling police before he could make any progress. The man was arrested on active warrants for aggravated drunk driving and having an expired registration.
A report of a prostitution ring run off of Craigs-
list was passed along to detectives after a man reported he responded to an ad and was solicited, but did not go to the location.
A West Idaho Street business contacted police after getting fed up with a person who kept making harassing phone calls to the business, keeping the employee’s direct line tied up all day to the point that he had to unplug his phone.
A mad motorist in a green sport utility vehicle was reportedly tailgating other vehicles and traveling at up to 100 mph, but after reporting the speeding SUV, the caller hung up on dispatch.
A man walked into a restaurant on East Idaho Street and threatened the manager with the “black mafia.”
A father was counseled by a Flathead County Sheriff’s deputy about appropriate and inappropriate text messages after another person received a forwarded chain-letter text that read, “If you break this chain, you will see a little girl dead in your room tonight.” The man agreed to talk to his daughter about it.
A bicyclist who suddenly found himself surrounded reported a bunch of homeless people on the south side of Rails to Trails and said there was garbage everywhere. By the time a deputy arrived, there was no one around the transient camps, located roughly 200 yards south of the Ashley Creek bridge.
A pair of dogs meant double trouble for a man on Swan Ridge Road in Columbia Falls, who was bitten by both animals and had to get four stitches in his leg.
A distraught Lost Creek Drive woman reported her neighbor said her dog was his, carried it back to her house and threw it in a puddle with rocks in it.