Party den draws constant complaints

A drug den on Dorothy Street was repeatedly reported to the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office by a pair of neighbors early Tuesday morning.

One of the neighbors first called just after midnight to report a large party at the home involving underage drinking and that she had seen someone light something and then put a clear tube up to their mouths. She said the resident of the home deals drugs out of the house and has guns.

Half an hour later, the woman’s husband called back to say the party was still going and that he would go over himself, but the resident has pulled a gun on him before. Another half hour later, the man called again to report the resident had just threatened to shoot his wife, that the resident had a handgun, and that he believed the resident was selling methamphetamine in front of the home.

Complaints of fireworks came in from three properties — one on Lower Valley Road where someone was throwing fireworks against a building and leaving the debris behind, one on Maple Drive where a resident shared her consternation that the fireworks were landing in her yard, and one in Somers, where several people were seen setting off fireworks at a boat launch.

A man was successful when he searched for the source of gunfire he heard in the area of Patrick Creek Road — a little too successful, as the person with the gun pulled it on the man. The gunman then fled the area.

A man was left bloody after being assaulted at a motel on Going-to-the-Sun Road.

A U.S. 2 East man complained that his neighbor’s “wolf-dog” was out circling his fence and that he has had problems with the dog in the past.

A 14th Street East North woman in Columbia Falls reported her sure belief that while she was away from her home for three hours, someone went inside her house and also took the hinges off her doors and put them back on in different spots.

Several cocky egg throwers kept up their barrage, hidden in the darkness, while a Stone Street homeowner tried to scrub the residue from his house.

The Kalispell Police Department was kept running by multiple reports of fireworks throughout town Monday night and Tuesday morning.

At 9:11 p.m. Monday, a Mountain Park Lane resident reported his neighbors had been setting off firecrackers and the like for the last couple of nights. The neighbors were advised of the city ordinance on fireworks.

At 11:14 p.m., a Fifth Avenue East resident reported hearing a sparkler bomb explode nearby. Half an hour later, people were reported lighting off fireworks in a parking lot off Wolfpack Way.

At 12:20 a.m. Tuesday, a fed-up South Woodland Drive resident reported fireworks going off somewhere in the area for the third night in a row. Fireworks were also reported near Hawthorn Avenue less than one minute later.

It was also reported that sometime overnight, someone stole the caps off of fence posts at a Kirsten Drive property and dropped firecrackers down the now-open posts. The person also broke sprinkler heads.

A College Avenue woman reported a man came into her bedroom and attacked her. Upon being approached by law enforcement, the man said he needed to go to the emergency room and felt he was too impaired to give a statement. He agreed to go to the police department in the morning to fill out a statement.

A Fifth Avenue West man called 911 to report his wife is still gone and that he didn’t need any help, just wanted her to come home. He was advised that unless he needed immediate medical, fire, or police assistance, to stop calling 911 because officers knew he wanted his wife to come home.

An observant housekeeper had the desk clerk contact police after seeing a man smoking methamphetamine in a car in the parking lot of a First Avenue East hotel.

An offended resident complained about an amplified proselytizer to the Whitefish Police Department, saying the man was using a public address system to shout things from the Bible that the resident was sure other residents would find offensive as well. The complainer was told the man was on private property and has permission to preach the gospel. The man did turn his speaker down, however.

A dozing driver was arrested for also being drunk after a passerby reported he was almost run off the road by the man, who he then saw asleep in his pickup truck with the door open in a Dakota Avenue driveway.

A man was arrested after slamming the hand of the owner of his home in a door after the owner told him he could not light off fireworks at the Bay Point Drive property.

Residents complained of fireworks in the areas of Skyles Place and Locarno Drive.

A suspicious young man was reported to the Columbia Falls Police Department after he was seen walking down Third Avenue West shortly after 4 a.m. carrying a flashlight and a screwdriver, checking cars.