Texts on nail polish unwanted

A frightened woman contacted the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office about a man who had been sending her harassing text messages for the past five months and was now following her. She said that after going to a gas station, she received a text from the suspect commenting on her green nail polish and saying he was watching her at the gas station.

An East Evergreen Drive man who reported neighbors with whom he had been having dog issues had put up a sign in their yard saying “(expletive) you dog hunter.” The resident was advised that his neighbor was protected by free speech laws, that the sign was not obscene enough to be criminal and was “no different than seeing an F-word on a bumper sticker or a T-shirt.”

Deputies arrested a woman for drug possession after initially responding to Montana 35 for a report of a man with a warrant out for his arrest. The man had left two weeks earlier, but the deputies were called into a nearby bar where there was a woman who had pepper sprayed herself, tried to pepper spray someone else, and was talking to herself. She at first would not comply with deputies’ commands, and when they took her into custody they found a syringe loaded with methamphetamine in her hand.

A group of youths were reported in Kalispell throwing stuff at signs and spray-painting cars. Several loud booms — possibly fireworks or firearms — were also reported in the area.

A concerned passerby reported a tarp covered in blood on Conrad Drive, which a deputy found was also full of deer hair. The information was passed along to Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks.

A Trap Road woman reported a young Russian man came to her door, was very persistent, and wouldn’t leave, and when he finally did leave said he would be back.

A man passed out in his car led to two calls to the Kalispell Police Department after he was first reported slumped backwards in the driver’s side of the vehicle in the parking lot of an East Idaho Street business. When an officer responded, the man declined medical treatment, saying he was just taking a nap.

After the officer left, the man only moved his car a few feet and passed out again. The company’s business manager again called police, but by the time an officer arrived, the man had left.

A dog-eat-dog situation was reported at a Rimrock Court home, where one of the resident’s Chow Chows attacked and killed the other, although the resident said the dog was not normally vicious or aggressive.

An officer reported a man on a bicycle was riding slowly around the neighborhood and checking out his patrol car, and that when he came outside, the man loaded his bicycle into a vehicle and drove off.

The manager of a Hutton Ranch Road store reported a transient sleeping “very deeply” in the parking lot in front of the store near one of the planters and wanted him asked to leave.

Someone smashed in the doors of one truck and vandalized the owner’s other truck on Eighth Street West.

An Appleway Drive man reported another man just kicked in his door and was running around the building, saying something about being scared for his life and acting abnormal and agitated. The man was eventually apprehended and eventually dropped off on Seventh Street West.

Whitefish Police Department officers responded to Waverly Place after a resident reported their roommate was acting odd earlier that day, then jumped out of their second-story window, got in his car and drove away. The resident didn’t want their roommate to return.

A very drunk young man was reported riding a bicycle on Spokane Avenue, falling down several times.

A Columbia Falls Police Department officer who stopped to check on a person with their vehicle on Ninth Street West discovered a woman who was “just getting away from her mother-in-law”

A pair of men selling books to earn a scholarship were advised that they first needed to go to City Hall and get a permit to sell door-to-door.

A kind clergyman turned in a wallet containing “quite a bit of money” and an ID that he found on Sixth Street West.