Kids all wet for pulling mailbox prank
A group of youthful miscreants were reported pulling mail out of mailboxes on Maple Drive and peeing on it, drawing a Flathead County Sheriff’s Office deputy to speak with the group about the seriousness of destroying mail and the inappropriateness of forcefully undressing someone.
A woman was struck with rocks when teenagers in a passing vehicle threw them at her vehicle and some flew through her open window.
A report of a stolen business Ford F-150 on Hungry Horse Boulevard in Hungry Horse was retracted when the man who reported it said it had “magically reappeared.”
A Jolly Hill woman in Marion corralled a “huge dog” in her yard that she said “looks like a polar bear” that was later found to be a Great Pyrenees when it was impounded by an animal-control officer.
A 6-month-old baby was reported locked in a vehicle that was not running with all the windows rolled up in the parking lot of a U.S. 2 East restaurant.
A drunk woman was arrested on East Oregon Street after punching another person in the jaw and head.
A drunk woman wearing a more-than-mildly appropriate Jack Daniels jersey was reported stumbling into people’s yards on Mountain View Drive.
A confused Woodland Avenue woman said she could smell marijuana in her house, but couldn’t tell where it was coming from.
A woman was arrested for drunk driving after blowing two of her tires, disabling her car in the middle of the road on U.S. 2 East and blocking two lanes of traffic.
An angry ex-boyfriend with a fiery temper drew a call to the Kalispell Police Department after he set his ex-girlfriend’s car on fire after they broke up early Wednesday morning. The man, reportedly drunk, then fled and tried to hide his truck. Officers were unable to locate the man.
A clued-in clerk at an East Idaho Street business reported receiving a 1988-issue $100 bill that did not have a watermark. The clerk was advised that the bills did not yet have watermarks at that time, but the bill turned out to be counterfeit anyway. The person who tried to use the bill found another way to pay.
A peeping possible pedophile was reported in Woodland Park sitting in the bushes with binoculars watching children. That information, however, was provided third-hand, and an officer located only a man with a telephoto lens taking pictures of the rink.
A drunk driver with a dog was seen swerving all over on Third Avenue East, screaming and yelling out his window.
In a continuation of an issue raised as the temperatures outside also climb, a Whitefish Police Department officer to the city beach after receiving a report of two girls and four boys sitting near the concession stand drinking alcohol, smoking, being very loud, and cursing. By the time the officer arrived, only one woman was still there. She dumped out her alcohol and was sent on her way.
Mischievous youths and a concerned mother drew a pair of calls to the Columbia Falls Police Department within 15 minutes late Tuesday night.
The first call came in at 11:40 p.m. from a Ninth Avenue West woman who said her 16-year-old son had been “ding-dong-ditching” in town. An officer later reported he had made contact with the woman and “returned her pride and joy.” She told the officer the boy may be going to his dad’s home in Kalispell for the summer.
At 11:55 p.m., a Rapids Avenue woman reported neighbor youths had been running around the neighborhood, stopping and pounding on her door. She caught them and spoke with one of their mothers, but said she was upset with the youths harassing her and being out after curfew.