Threatening calls not a funny prank

A frightened Forest Drive woman contacted the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office after receiving threatening phone calls. The first time the person called, he knew her name, and she hung up immediately. He then called back and left a message saying he was going to kill her and knew her parents’ address. The calls turned out to be a prank.

Deputies arrested a man on a $10,000 warrant out of Washington after he called from his Cayuse Lane home. He hung up immediately, then was called back. In the second call, he said his drunken wife was being disorderly.

A Third Avenue East resident in Columbia Falls complained that his neighbor’s cats were using his yard as a litter box.

A pair of family members of a Flathead Drive resident were reportedly trying to break into the home, with one trying to get in the basement and the other on the roof.

A Three Mile Drive resident found footprints leading to all the vehicles on his property although none seemed to have been broken into.

A logger missing from the Marion area was found getting drunk in a bar.

A gunshot was heard in the area of a bar on Montana 35.

A Cobbler Village resident reported his 12-gauge Remington shotgun had been stolen, and he had seen the exact same firearm listed for sale in the newspaper.

Tools were stolen from a job site on Abbey Road in Whitefish. At least one was later located at a pawn shop.

A box was stolen from a vehicle on U.S. 93 South in Whitefish.

The Kalispell Police Department responded to Third Avenue East after a frightened resident reported hearing a dispute behind his home, then hearing gunshots, and then seeing a woman laying on the ground. The sounds turned out to be from people working on a vehicle who threw a pair of ramps onto a trailer, making a loud banging sound.

An upset Empire Loop resident wrote “shovel your walkway” in marker on his neighbor’s mailbox.

Several people were seen passing a bong around in a car on Stillwater Road.

A homeless man was reported for stealing a coat from a West Railroad Street business, saying that he had been trying to go to jail for two days.

A woman was removed from a Third Avenue East North business after she tried to buy alcohol, dropped what looked like a copy of a Social Security card and stole a camera.

An Eighth Avenue West woman woke up to her car alarm going off and her car door open, although she didn’t believe anything was missing.

A woman reported her old roommate took her computer from a storage unit on Batavia Lane and pawned it.

A man fled from a Hutton Ranch Road business after being seen shoplifting.

Tools were reported stolen on Third Avenue East.

A West Third Street resident reported to the Whitefish Police Department that his landlord chased a person — “either a child or a midget” — off his front yard. The incident was believed to be connected with the report of a woman on the same street who said someone broke into her house for the second time in a week, bending the blinds, leaving the curtains a mess around a bathroom window, and leaving footprints to and from the window.

A confused Shiloh Avenue resident reported a suspicious man wearing no uniform messing with the electrical system on her building. The man turned out to be a maintenance employee who had worked at that building for five years.

A Columbia Avenue woman reported her identity was stolen.

Columbia Falls Police officers arrested a person after a woman reported her daughter’s ex-husband threw things around, threw her daughter down and threatened to shoot everyone at the Fourth Avenue West residence.

A newspaper delivery person reported being attacked from behind and hit on the head with something made of glass on 17th Street West. The delivery person was knocked out, and the culprit stole a ring and money off his dashboard.

A woman reported a man who had reportedly shot himself in the foot on Jan. 9 had actually been shot in the foot by another woman who lied about what happened and wanted the couple’s newborn baby checked on.

A First Street West resident reported a 17-year-old boy from down the street littered and did a burnout in the yard.

An Eighth Avenue East North woman reported her ex-husband took some of her stuff while collecting their son’s belongings.