Driver endures window-shattering event
Country-road crossfire led a woman to contact the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office after a drive down Bachelor Grade Road. The woman reported she passed three adolescent boys — one in horn-rimmed glasses — walking down the road carrying some kind of weapon, and when she passed them her back window shattered. When a deputy responded, the boys were nowhere to be found.
A “top heavy” and heavily tattooed woman stole plants from a U.S. 2 East property, apparently not the first time she had stolen from the business.
An employee of a Kalispell business stole a company van and rolled it in an accident.
An East Northview Loop resident was reported for calling the Flathead County Justice Court and being a nuisance.
A woman whose luck ran out was caught on video stealing $212 worth of scratch-off lottery tickets.
A person trying to be prepared called with questions about crime rates in an area of Columbia Falls due to an upcoming move to that location.
A confused U.S. 93 South resident in Lakeside reported he has been finding blunt arrows around his house for the last year due to someone shooting them into his yard.
A Kalispell woman reported her ex-husband was sending death threats to her ex-boyfriend and her mother. She was advised she could not report the crime for someone else, that it could only be reported by the victims.
A series of eggings and one paintball attack on U.S. 93 North, as well as an egging on Fourth Avenue West, led to several calls to the Kalispell Police Department late Wednesday night.
At 10:51 p.m., a motorist reported someone threw an egg at his car as he passed Grandview Drive, nearly causing him to run off the road. At 11:33 p.m., a motorist reported a vehicle being hit by two eggs while passing Sunny View Lane. Then, three minutes later, a motorist reported his vehicle was struck by paintballs as he passed Conway Drive.
Yet another egging was reported at 1:08 the following morning, when a Fourth Avenue West resident reported someone throwing rocks at the house. When the resident’s mother arrived, she found egg all over the outside of the house.
A boy was reported by one of his parents for taking prescription pills to school and giving them to another student to hold, and that the student then distributed the pills.
A man in his early 20s was reported walking up to people on Second Street West and offering to sell them a gun.
A woman reported her drunk boyfriend was punching himself in the face.
A tight-lipped victim refused to tell police the name of the suspect or the reason for a fight despite having been injured and bleeding as a result.
A young couple possibly looking to strengthen their relationship by committing a crime together was reported looking into cars behind a Hutton Ranch Road building.
A surprised Fifth Avenue West North resident awoke to discover someone had cut down three of his birch trees overnight.
A passer-by contacted the Whitefish Police Department after seeing a man wearing a black hoodie and a black backpack walking along an alley off Columbia Avenue because the man was wearing “weird” goggles, although he was not trespassing or behaving abnormally.
A frightened woman contacted the Columbia Falls Police Department to report that a man told her friend he would pay her $100 to beat up the woman.
An officer advised several people in an alley off Nucleus Avenue of the state’s open container laws.