Squatter arrested for second time
Flathead County Sheriff’s Office arrested and sent a squatter to jail for the second time in a week after responding to a theft call Monday morning.
According to Sheriff Chuck Curry, the man was recently arrested for squatting in a vacation home on U.S. 2 East. When he got out of jail, Curry said, he went back to the property and started loading items from the home onto a trailer. The man was arrested for theft.
A Hungry Horse woman reported that her ex-boyfriend was going around offering people $50 to steal her dog.
A bewildered Bigfork woman reported her son had a party at their Riverside Road home while she was gone, and she was now missing hunting knives, bullets, and guns.
A man called to complain that he had been handcuffed by police after an altercation at a Montana 35 bar, and now he couldn’t feel his thumb. He refused a medical response, instead demanding a phone call from a sergeant.
A Tamarack Lane woman reported a peeping Tom after someone wrote “sexy” on the side of her daughter’s truck and left a “rude” picture on the side of the house.
A crafty Quarter Horse Lane man caught intruders in his home on video.
A drunk man was the focus of a pair of calls to Kalispell Police, the first coming in at ten minutes before midnight Monday, when he was reported stumbling into East Nevada Street traffic, possibly carrying a beer can. He was found to be four blocks from his home and was allowed to move along. However, a little more than an hour later, the man was reported by a Second Avenue East North resident as snooping around vehicles. Upon responding, an officer located the same man, who had apparently gotten lost and had to be redirected.
A shoplifting woman was released by police after a First Avenue East North manager and several clerks chased her down on foot after she fled the store when she was noticed. The officer reported he was in the process of getting a warrant for her for multiple thefts.
The owner of an Idaho Street restaurant reported a man in his 30s wearing a camouflage hat and shorts pulled up in front of the business on a bike and then did a drug deal with a woman, whom the owner saw put what he believed to be drugs in her pocket.
A boater with a bad attitude was reported to the Whitefish Police Department after getting very close to kayakers while towing a water skier with his large boat, getting within three feet of one kayaker, pointing and laughing at her before moving on.
A passing motorist contacted the Columbia Falls Police Department after witnessing a mad mother’s impromptu punishment when the stopped on Nucleus Avenue, made two roughly 6-year-old boys get out of the car — inside of which there were four more children — and drove around the block, yelling at them when she came back before putting them back in the car.
An employee of a Nucleus Avenue video store was reported for exposing himself to another employee.