Deputy sets neighsayer straight

The manager of a Montana 209 property in Bigfork was advised by a Flathead County Sheriff’s deputy that the unwatered horses the manager keeps are, in fact, getting water — and always have been. The deputy advised the property manager that there isn’t a horse problem; there’s a problem with his two tenants not being able to coexist. The property manager said the horse owners were moving within a month.

A snowmobiler reported being threatened by a man who grooms the trails in the area. The groomer reportedly said that if he saw the snowmobiler and the snowmobiler’s friends, he wouldn’t be able to stop; he’d hit them and “break their jaws.”

An upset friend reported a woman was assaulted in Bigfork a few days prior, causing her to spit up blood and requiring stitches in her stomach.

A U.S. 93 South resident in Whitefish reported a man borrowed his blue and silver 1991 Chevrolet pickup truck and didn’t return it.

People have been siphoning gas and stealing car stereos from a U.S. 2 West car lot in Columbia Falls for several days.

A West Reserve Drive business was burglarized.

A carved bear holding a fish was stolen from a Longwood Drive property.

Two purses were stolen from vehicles on U.S. 2 West in Kalispell.

Someone threw a brick through a window of a vehicle on West Reserve Drive and stole a purse.

A concerned passerby contacted the Whitefish Police Department to report a child about 8 years old climbing on the concrete block on the viaduct. The caller was afraid the boy might fall into traffic.

A young teenage boy led the Columbia Falls Police Department on a chase after he jumped out of his guardian’s vehicle on 13th Street West and ran into a housing development. He was eventually determined to be safe and on his way to the home of his sister’s foster parents.

Ronan Police officers arrested a motorist who refused to provide a breath sample during a traffic stop on Round Butte Road.