Fireworks set off townspeople

The Kalispell Police Department received several fireworks complaints late Friday night.

At 8:58 p.m., a young teenage boy in black was reported for refusing to stop setting off fireworks at a Second Street West playground despite a woman, whose children were trying to play, asking him several times to stop.

At 10:40 p.m., an Eighth Avenue West resident reported someone setting off large ordnance near trees, and that the ordnance was loud and could catch the trees on fire.

At 11:49 p.m., an Eighth Street West resident reported fireworks being set off nearby, and that it had been going on for two hours.

The police department also received two complaints regarding air traffic over the city, the first from a man who was upset about planes supposedly doing “touch-and-go” maneuvers at the city airport. He claimed the city council had made the activity illegal, and said he wanted to file a complaint against the airport about that and the noise. The man already had an open complaint, and an officer reported there were no planes matching the one he described or with the tail number he provided.

The second complaint was that a plane was flying below 500 feet on the west side of town. The person who reported the complaint said they had also notified the Federal Aviation Administration.

Several young, shirtless boys were reported running down Eighth Street West, ringing doorbells, knocking on doors, and running through people’s yards. One resident chased them through several yards, but was unable to catch any of them.

A man visiting from another country reported being jumped and sucker punched outside an East Idaho Street business.

An upset intended recipient of a GPS unit reported the delivery company told them residents signed for the package, but the recipient said they never signed for anything, and that their daughter needed the unit for her upcoming trip to Katmandu. The person who received the GPS agreed to bring it to the intended recipient.

Officers arrested a man for partner or family member assault on Second Avenue East North after the man dragged his girlfriend up and down the stairs and assaulted her, leaving wounds on her arms and her gums bleeding.

A pair of men were arrested for drunk driving within less than an hour of one another early Saturday morning, one at 2:15 a.m. on West Idaho Street and one at 3:12 a.m. on 12th Street East.

A homeless man in his 20s holding a sign including profanity was advised to move along and remove the offensive words from his sign.

Several youths were seen egging cars on Getty Drive.

A frightened woman contacted the Whitefish Police Department after a person got in her face and swung at her. She said she believed the person and two others were trying to jump her.

Residents called in three reports of fireworks, including in the area of Dakota Avenue as well as the area of Iowa Avenue, where a resident said she would keep calling if it didn’t stop.

Officers responded to a Wisconsin Avenue home after a 20-year-old man drank enough alcohol to cause him to have a seizure.

A young man was seen drinking a beer and swerving as he drove up U.S. 93 in a blue pickup truck.

An elderly C Street East North woman contacted the Columbia Falls Police Department after finding what she believed to be a device that contacted the police laying in her yard. She described the device as black with wires between it.

A drunk woman stumbling across Nucleus Avenue was nearly hit by a motorist who later found the woman in the parking lot of a nearby bar. The woman then started screaming and yelling at the motorist. The woman then called police to complain about the motorist.

A concerned Riparian Drive resident reported a pair of teenage boys in black walking down into the brush toward the river shortly before hearing shots fired.