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Animals run amok Thursday

| March 15, 2013 10:00 PM

The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office received several reports of unruly dogs and other animals between 8:46 a.m. and 8:27 p.m. Thursday.

A trailblazing black Lab puppy caught the attention of law enforcement after it was reported that the pooch kept trying to get through the fence onto the runway of Glacier Park International Airport.

A Whitefish Stage Road woman reported her neighbor’s Labradors kept coming onto her property and attacking her dogs, and that the dogs had killed her dog in the past. The neighbors agreed to build a fence between their properties.

A golden retriever was reportedly trying to kill chickens on Sawbuck Trail in Columbia Falls.

A medium-sized black and white dog was reported as being aggressive on Echo Lake Road in Bigfork, where a man had to threaten the dog with a branch to get it to leave him alone.

A Fairview Cemetery Road resident in Columbia Falls reported some type of large animal, likely a beaver or a muskrat, was suck in the basement window well. The resident didn’t want to try and get it out because it had claws. The resident was advised to place a 2-by-4 in the window well for the animal to use to climb out.

A Montana 209 resident in Bigfork reported a drunken man in his 60s pulled into his driveway and claimed to know his grandparents. The man tried to leave and got stuck on the icy road before he eventually was able to pull away.

Several people were reported by a security guard for using ski runs on Big Mountain after hours on a regular basis.

A pair of shoes, women’s socks, old cars and a bag of animal bones were reportedly buried on the west side of a bridge in Kalispell.

A motorist was arrested for drunken driving on Montana 82 in Bigfork.

Windows were smashed out of vehicles on Pavilion Hill Avenue and Burns Street in Somers.

Someone slashed the tire of a vehicle on Ridgewood Drive.


A Whitefish Police officer cited and released a woman during a traffic stop on U.S. 93 South after discovering the woman had a warrant out of Kalispell for failing to appear at a hearing about her expired registration, that her registration was still expired and that she had no insurance.

A neighborhood resident complained about the “toxic fumes” being put out by a delivery van that was parked on Ashar Avenue.

Someone tried to use another person’s ID to buy cigarettes at a U.S. 93 South store.


Lake County Sheriff’s deputies investigated an incident of unlawful transactions with a child on Joscum Lane.

Deputies arrested a person for partner or family member assault in the same trailer court where they had investigated another incident of partner or family member assault at a different mobile home several hours earlier.


Ronan Police officers investigated an assault at a group home.