Spying dad reported to police
A snooping father was reported to the Whitefish Police Department after he was seen in a parked vehicle on Pine Avenue looking toward the high school parking lot with binoculars. When confronted, he said he was spying on his kids and left.
Parts were stolen off a BMW on Yarrow Lane.
Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies responded twice to the train depot in Whitefish for people on a train and in a crew area.
At 8:44 p.m. Thursday, deputies were called to remove a man from the dining car of a train. At 2:16 a.m. the following morning, deputies transported a drunken man to a motel after he was reported in a crew area just west of the depot, which the caller said was “not a place for intoxicated people.”
Lights in the sky previously reported as a possible UFO were identified by a second witness as paper lanterns.
An Old Church Road man in Olney turned a box of electric blasting caps over to deputies to be destroyed after he found it at the dump. He had taken the box home because he didn’t want the wrong type of person to find it.
The parents of an 11-year-old and a 9-year-old were warned after leaving the children in their van for at least 15 minutes while they were in a Kalispell casino on U.S. 2 East gambling. A Child and Parent Services representative ruled that the warning was enough because the children were not in serious danger due to the mild weather conditions.
A drunken man on Montana 35 who told deputies his girlfriend had run off and might be next door was told she was old enough to go where she wanted and not to call 911 unless he has a criminal matter or an emergency to report.
A group of three men was reported drinking, throwing beer bottles at vehicles and jumping in front of vehicles outside a bar on Montana 35 in Bigfork.
A woman was arrested for drunken driving during a traffic stop on Airport Road after she initially would not stop for a deputy. The deputy sought out and stopped the woman after it was reported that she was so drunk she could barely walk, and then left in her truck.
A Hagerman Lane man reported someone sending him and his girlfriend harassing Facebook messages.
An Ezy Drive man reported his girlfriend tried to get another person to pawn his belongings.
A person was bit by a stray cat on Columbia Falls Stage Road.
A man who loaned tools to a friend staying at an East Idaho Street motel contacted the Kalispell Police Department after he found out the friend had been arrested. He wanted help getting the tools back, as the front desk clerk wouldn’t let him get them from the room.
A Hilltop Avenue woman reported she found a bullet hole in the side of her garage after having heard a shot some nights prior.
A man who had previously been banned from the library was removed and again warned never to come back after he was found in the library again.
Hypodermic needles were found at the intersection of Bruyer Way Loop and Velva Drive.
A man and a woman were arrested after being caught trying to shoplift from a Third Avenue East North store.
A woman was arrested on a warrant on Northern Lights Boulevard.
Someone pried a window off a vehicle on Sixth Avenue West.
Someone slashed two tires on a vehicle outside a hotel on U.S. 93 South.
A license plate was stolen from a vehicle on Jackson Peak Drive.
Columbia Falls Police officers responded to a First Avenue East home after receiving a report of a couple fighting and screaming. The woman involved eventually left to stay with a friend.
A board was stolen from a Ninth Street West business.
Polson Police officers investigated an aggravated assault at a 10th Avenue West apartment.