Would-be home burglar thwarted
An Alpine Lane woman contacted the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office after someone tried to break into her home. The would-be burglar was not able to get inside, but left behind a piece of something stuck into the door handle. A video surveillance system did not catch the culprit on video, but captured audio of the attempted entry.
An Ash Road businessman loaned $5,000 to an employee and said the man took off without paying him back.
Deputies responded to a Lost Creek Drive home after a nearby resident reported hearing children screaming, “Mom please don’t hurt me again.” Everyone at the home was found to be OK.
A Cheery Lynn Court man who just couldn’t take it any more called the Sheriff’s Office after a woman wouldn’t stop texting him, sending him at least 200 messages in one 24-hour period.
A motorist in a green pickup truck hit a ditch on Montana 35 and took out a stop sign.
An inmate fainted in his cell at the Flathead County Detention Center.
An abandoned snowblower was found on Montana 35.
A pair of hungry huskies were reported to the Kalispell Police Department after they were seen running around Woodland Park chasing geese, eventually catching one of them. Their owner was eventually found and sent to pick up the wayward pooches.
A tire that didn’t want to follow the pack flew off a car on Grandview Drive at U.S. 93 North, hitting a semitrailer. The issue was determined to be mechanical, and no damage was caused by the rampaging rubber ring.
A Summit Ridge Drive man reported someone called him claiming to be from a company that he owed money for a loan he took out and that the caller had all of his personal information, but that he had never heard of them and hadn’t taken out any loans.
A Merganser Drive resident complained to police after a neighbor kept pushing and shoveling a significant amount of snow into the road, creating poor driving conditions and making it hard for vehicles to drive through.
A Fifth Avenue West resident loaned his car to a friend and contacted police after noticing damage to the vehicle when it was returned.
Employees of a U.S. 93 South business escorted him back into the building after he was reported wrestling with them in the parking lot.
A Granary Ridge Drive man accidentally called 911 when he bumped his phone while eating breakfast.
Someone stole the tablet computer that serves as the credit card machine for a U.S. 2 West coffee shop.
A street department grader struck a parked sport utility vehicle on Hawthorn Avenue.
Whitefish Police Department officers responded to a Minnesota Avenue home after a car slipped into gear and crashed into the house, ripping the door off the car and smashing out windows of the rental home. The vehicle’s owner was not injured and there was no one in the home at the time.
A neighbor dispute built up on Baker Avenue when one men was reported piling his snow on his neighbor’s driveway and lawn. Although the neighbors were to try to find a mutually agreeable place to put the snow, they “didn’t get very far!”
A student was arrested and released to a family member after being disorderly at an East Second Street school.
A passer-by reported a dangerous situation on Dakota Avenue, where someone had left several glass bottles in the middle of the road.
A Columbia Falls Police Department officer responded to a Fifth Street West property Tuesday morning after the door was found broken open. It was unknown if anything was taken.
A report of a woman slumped over the wheel of a vehicle on Ninth Street West was found to be fine, just stuck in a drift and frustrated with the snow. A kind passerby was able to help her dislodge her vehicle.