Chase of suspect ends in arrest
Flathead County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to two calls before eventually arresting a man following a pursuit. At 2:29 p.m., it was reported that two men in a blue sport utility vehicle broke the window of a vehicle and tried unsuccessfully to steal a computer. At 4:58 p.m., a man in a blue SUV was reported to have driven up to a car on Valley View Drive, smashed a window and stolen a purse.
Deputies headed toward a possible suspect address on Coon Hollow before chasing and arresting the suspect.
A motorist clocked at 15 miles per hour over the speed limit tried to outsmart a deputy by pulling into a Montana 40 West driveway in Columbia Falls and stating he worked for the resident. When the resident then came out and said she had no idea who he was, the motorist said he pulled in to avoid the traffic stop and said he didn’t have car insurance. He was cited for speeding and not having insurance.
A disorderly inmate at the Flathead County Detention Center was found to have a weapon.
A Hoffman Draw resident in Kila complained about a neighbor channeling water polluted with motor oil and hydraulic fluid onto his property.
A dog was transported to the Central Valley Animal Hospital after its foot was broken when it stepped into a leg trap set up legally for predator control by a Florence Acres Way resident in Columbia Falls.
A Bayou Road resident reported seeing a man spotlighting deer in his field and heard one gunshot.
A .338-caliber magnum firearm was stolen from a Willow Glen Drive home.
A woman complained to the Kalispell Police Department that she was removed from an Indian Trail Road business because she had her service animal with her, and said she was sure her civil rights had been violated by not being allowed to be inside the business with the service animal.
A man was transported to the Kalispell Regional Medical Center after he was found passed out in the bathroom of a First Avenue East business with a beer can sitting next to the stall.
The clerk at a U.S. 93 South convenience store reported a customer asked if she wanted to buy morphine pills.
A woman called in tears to report her doctor wouldn’t give her her medication.
A concerned parent reported there was a vehicle with people inside waiting at his son’s East Idaho Street employer to beat him up when he left.
An officer responding to a report of a youth vandalizing a street sign on 10th Street East found a sticker on a yield sign that said “Tree.”
A dog was reported starving, its ribs showing, on Second Avenue East.
A syringe was found on North Main Street.
An iPod with its owner’s first and last names professionally engraved on the back was stolen from a girl on Wolfpack Way.
An employee at a Flathead Avenue car rental business contacted the Whitefish Police Department for help locating a car that had been rented March 5 by a man who, two days later, assaulted his wife before shooting and killing a man in Whitefish then committing suicide in West Glacier.
Officers arrested a drunk East First Street man after he assaulted a woman, also drunk, hitting her and slamming her face into the floor, also breaking a door.
A man staying with his friend at an East First Street property reported the landlord walked in and started choking him.
A landlord of an East First Street property had questions about his rental house being trashed.
A burglary was reported on Baker Avenue.