Real deputies arrest fake cop
Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a man running around West Cottonwood Drive with a handgun, a fake badge and a flashlight, telling people he was a police officer. The man threatened to shoot at least one person. A child was released to a neighbor following the man’s arrest.
The Kalispell Police Department was contacted by an on-again, off-again victim who initially reported a passenger in her car stole her keys, “disconnected her wires” and took her car. The passenger reported the woman punched him in the face, which she denied. The woman eventually recanted her story, saying she no longer wished to file a complaint, that she inadvertently was struck in the ribs while trying to get the keys back and that she was “not scared of him.”
A 17-year-old boy listed as a runaway was transported to the hospital after he was picked up on Hutton Ranch Road, possibly having overdosed after having taken some drugs earlier and been found unconscious. He was extremely confused and could not remember his name, other than a belief that it started with a T, and said he remembered being inside a pharmacy and taking medicine.
A Lehi Lane resident complained about being growled at by his neighbor’s loose dogs — one large dog and three “teacup Chihuahuas.”
Someone took his anger out on a mailbox on U.S. 93 South at 18th Street East, ripping it out of the ground and leaving it in the street.
A person in a light-colored hoodie was seen running through a horse pasture and hopping a fence into the yard of a North Belmar Drive home.
A trio of troublemakers were banned from a Woodland Park Drive bar after starting a fight.
A man who attempted suicide in his vehicle in the parking lot of a Fourth Avenue West business was transported to the hospital after regaining consciousness.
The Whitefish Police Department received a report of a man who “appears to be a transient” cutting down all the bushes in front of the O’Shaughnessy Center, but it turned out to be an employee cutting down rose bushes to make room for a new sign.