Car takes a beating for troubled affair

An “on again, off again” 12-year affair led to a call to the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office Thursday after the man with whom a woman had been having the affair reported he had punched dents in her car. She said he showed up at her house and she did not want him there with her children, and that as she tried to leave he threatened her verbally and then punched the car. He later called her back and apologized, offering to pay for the damage. She said her husband was aware of the affair but was out of town.

A red letter was found affixed with a hunting knife in the guest section of a Wolf Tail Pines Road gated community near Whitefish that offered a reward for whoever finds the suspect that murdered a service dog, but an address listed on the letter was found not to exist.

A fed up Goat Trail resident in Whitefish followed a man in a pickup truck and later stood in front of the vehicle to keep the drunk man from driving away before a deputy arrived. The resident was tired of the man constantly throwing beer cans in his yard.

A man acting like he was on drugs, smelling of chemicals, and carrying a small bag was reported after he went into the bathroom of a U.S. 2 East gas station and stayed there for 15 minutes. He was gone by the time a deputy arrived.

A Ridgewood Drive woman caught a man she knew from Craigs-list trying to break into her home by crawling through a window.

A nearly 2-foot tall metal squirrel was stolen from the yard of a Caroline Road home.

A worried mother had questions about her son forging her name on documents after he signed her name on a permission slip allowing him to ride a bull at a rodeo.

A woman hit a man in the back of the head with a bottle on Montana 35.

The Kalispell Police Department was called to what may have been an end-of-the-school-year prank on Northwest Lane, where someone pulled a fire alarm.

A group of six men reported standing in a parking lot smoking marijuana turned out to be using an e-cigarette.

A “very concerned” woman reported she called a graphic design company and while she was providing them with her email address she heard the operator say the word “Unabomber.”

A report of 10 shotgun blasts led an officer to Sherry Lane, where no evidence of firearms was found, but the smell of fireworks lingered in the air.

A violent veteran at a Baker Avenue bar was reported to the Whitefish Police Department after he allegedly punched a woman, who then required stitches from the injury. Observers reported his whereabouts to police twice more as he walked around town, eventually to another bar, but he wasn’t apprehended.

A group of adults having a party with loud music at City Beach were brought back down to earth by an officer who told them no alcohol was allowed at the beach and made them pour out their drinks.

A transient woman was advised by a Columbia Falls Police Department officer that she was banned from a Ninth Street West Laundromat where she’s been sleeping and using the bathroom.

ALERT was called to Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park Friday afternoon after a bicyclist suffered a head injury with possible loss of consciousness in an accident roughly 19.5 miles up the road.