Suspicious package provokes alarm

A suspicious package left in the lobby of a U.S. 2 East post office outside Kalispell drew a response from the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office Wednesday morning. According to Sheriff Chuck Curry, the box was addressed to a New York City Red Cross office, but had no return address on it. The call log indicated the box had some weird markings on it as well. Curry said deputies tried throwing a rope at the package to see if it would react to being struck, and opened it after nothing happened. The box was found to contain clothes.

A pair of Marion Pines Drive neighbors in Marion played dueling police reports when each called at the same time to report their respective side of the story. The first said he found his daughter at a neighbor’s recreational vehicle trying to use the phone and the Internet. He reported that he told his neighbor the daughter was only 17 and took her home, and the neighbor then came by and shined a light in his window before yelling obscenities and leaving.

The neighbor then reported the girl had shown up wanting to make phone calls, and that when her father showed up to get her, he made death threats. The neighbor was reportedly uncooperative when a deputy tried to explain it was a misunderstanding. He was advised that he was provoking the situation by driving to the father’s house.

A Hungry Horse man reported his Miles City attorney told him the attorney had spent all of his settlement money, more than $10,000.

A frustrated process server trying to serve a three-day notice to a Pheasant Drive resident reported the people at the home were being uncooperative, calling him names and refusing to open the door.

A chicken of a Chihuahua was reported as running at large on Meadowlark Drive by a person who said the dog, which ran under a fence onto another property, seemed very scared.

A report of a possible grizzly bear and cubs in a Lindsey Lane chicken coop turned out to be a false alarm, although bears had been a problem on the property in the past.

A man with buyer’s remorse contacted deputies after a motorcycle he bought from a person in the Hungry Horse area “blew up” on him before he got out of town and that he was unable to get in touch with the person again.

The sound of several explosions drew a call from a Dye Ranch Loop woman in Kila, who said she was unsure if it was fireworks, loud cannon fire or something else. She heard the sound four or five times separated by 10 to 15 minutes, and that it sounded like it might be coming from over the mountains, but she did not know.

A very drunk, belligerent man was reported serially flipping people the bird outside a U.S. 2 West business, then at a nearby fast food restaurant before he was arrested by Kalispell Police officers, turned over to Lake County law enforcement and his dog impounded at the animal shelter.

A woman who just couldn’t seem to get her vehicle started was arrested for drunken driving after she was seen — behaving as though intoxicated — with her vehicle, which was stalled in the middle of River View Drive from shortly before midnight until after 1 a.m., when an officer arrived.

A thief with a change of heart told her husband that she stole checks from her friend last May and wrote $600 in fraudulent checks. The husband reported the incident and said they would like to write a statement now.

A vociferous vagrant who appeared to have been drinking was reportedly harassing and physically blocking the path of shoppers outside a U.S. 2 West store. The vagrant was warned about his no-extradite warrant and advised to move along.

Marijuana smoke was reportedly coming from rooms 419 and 421 of a U.S. 93 South hotel. A responding officer confirmed there was an odor coming from the room, but it was not marijuana.

The manager of a U.S. 93 South fast food restaurant contacted Whitefish Police Department at 4:28 p.m. to report a problem with an employee who had just been terminated and refused to return his store key. Coincidentally, the manager called back at 11:38 p.m. after being contacted by the alarm company who told him there was a “failure to close” alarm triggered on one of the doors.

A confused motorist was seen driving down the wrong side of U.S. 93 South.

A pair of youths were reported in a go-kart “tearing it up in the gravel” and wearing their hats backward.

Someone left poorly wrapped roses on the porch of a La Brie Drive man.

A passerby contacted the Columbia Falls Police Department about an olfactory observation after passing a truck on Nucleus Avenue that smelled like marijuana.