Shoppers get more than a discount
The Kalispell Police Department responded to a trio of calls from a Hutton Ranch Road parking lot in just over four hours Friday.
Two of the calls involved sexual crimes, including a man who flashed his genitals to people and another man who bent over next to a girl as he was walking by her, stuck his phone under her skirt, and took a picture.
The third call came from a handicapped man upset that he couldn’t find a parking spot after a vehicle without a handicap sticker took the last handicap spot. The caller then said “Never mind, they won’t do anything about it anyway,” and hung up.
Residents of Third Street West, Sixth Avenue West, and Second Street West reported a total of eight full garbage cans, too heavy to lift, knocked over in the alley.
A drunk motorist may have wished she had a more even temper after drawing attention to herself by tailgating another vehicle on Whitefish Stage Road, yelling at the other driver. Police caught up with her in the parking lot of a supermarket.
A Jackson Peak Drive burglary victim reported the crime the following day, after cleaning up the footprints that led into the house from the back.
A man was arrested for drunk driving after being found passed out in his vehicle in a U.S. 93 North parking lot. Immediately prior to being found, he had been reported driving 70 to 80 miles per hour in a 35 zone.
A group of teenagers were reported riding mopeds on a bicycle path.
The Whitefish Police Department received a pair of reports from concerned citizens regarding rain on Friday. The first of the two called in at 4:30 p.m. to share their worry that traffic could have problems with large puddles on East Second Street. The second called in at 10:40 p.m. about a large pothole in a construction area on O’Brien Avenue that formed in the rain.
A report of a drunk woman assaulted and pushed into a pole, suffering a cut above her eyebrow, was found to have actually occurred when she drunkenly ran into the pole, and that she had not been hit or pushed by anyone.
A man who underwent a procedure at the hospital worried employees when he left on his own — with his IV still in — when he wasn’t supposed to be driving. It was determined that he made it home safe.
Someone ripped the phone lines out of the box outside a Scott Avenue home.
A Columbia Falls Police Department officer arrested a boy for probation issues when they found the boy after he had been hiding out in an apartment in the area of Third Avenue West.