Mother's confession prompts concerned call

A concerned Web surfer called the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office to report a Facebook post on the page of a group titled Kalispell Confessions from a woman who said, anonymously, that she leaves her 1-year-old son in the bathtub with a pillow and blankets and a baby gate up while she goes to work because she can’t afford child care.

A Columbia Falls man turned up Friday after being reported to the Sheriff’s Office Thursday, when he left in his truck after drinking alcohol, taking pills and reportedly having been on a drug binge for four days. He was believed to have been heading up into the mountains. Sheriff Chuck Curry said the man was located after he contacted the office on his own.

An on-again, off-again runaway Bigfork boy again took to the streets after his parents found marijuana and a pipe in his room.

A tribal police officer out looking for a boat that was out of gas on Flathead Lake reported finding an abandoned paddle boat near the middle of the lake with no one around and nothing inside but a little water.

A Whalebone Drive resident woke up to a different kind of doughnut, finding tire marks from someone spinning brodies between his home and his neighbor’s home. The resident reported having heard engines revving at 2 a.m. but did not see anything when he looked then.

A Kalispell woman who reported her husband ordered illegal drugs and had them sent to her home was advised that none of the drugs she reported were illegal and no laws had been broken.

A man so drunk he was almost falling over and barely able to pick up the alcohol he had just bought off the counter at a Woodland Park Drive store reportedly drove away from the business.

A youth peed through a South Main Street door toward a law enforcement officer.

A miffed motorist reported a dangerous driver, who passed him illegally in the turn lane on Montana 206 while traveling at close to 100 mph, throwing rocks all over his window, cracking his windshield and leaving several chips. A Montana Highway Patrol trooper located and stopped both vehicles, and the drivers exchanged insurance information.

Shortly after the Kalispell Police Department was involved in a slow-speed chase with a man they later arrested, a report came in of another vehicle wrecked sideways on North Main Street, hung up on an embankment, racing its engine trying to get out. The driver fled on foot when firefighters arrived.

A man counseled last week about his comments to a woman on U.S. 93 North was reportedly once again panhandling. He was cited for soliciting contributions on a highway and given a warning for disorderly conduct.

A young man who smelled like cigarettes and marijuana was reported after he tried to sexually assault a woman in an alley off First Street West, pushing her up against a garage wall, trying to unzip her coat and putting his mouth on her. She was able to punch him in the chest and escape.

A Kalispell couple received a shock when a deputy left them a voicemail saying their vehicle was found abandoned near a golf course. They said the last place they had seen their vehicle was in their driveway, so it must have been stolen.

A considerate neighbor called police after a 64-year-old woman on Eighth Avenue East fell and hit her head. The woman, who suffered a very large bump but no cuts, told responders she was OK and not dizzy, only shaken up.

A serial spray-painter may be at large, as reports came in of a vehicle on Sixth Avenue West tagged for the second night in a row and of playground equipment just down the road tagged. The reports came in just a minute and a half apart.

A blond, skateboarding, apparent drug dealer kept the Whitefish Police Department busy with three calls Thursday.

The first came in from an employee at a Baker Avenue bar, who reported the man was saying suspicious things about collecting drug money. A half-hour later, the man was reportedly sitting behind a Spokane Avenue business for about 15 minutes.

Then, a few hours after that, a man matching the description of the skateboarder was reported for flipping off another man on Denver Street every day. The second man said he overheard the skateboarder saying, “I’m just trying to sell some weed.”

A drunken man reported for cutting down the soccer net in the city park told an officer the net was unsafe for his child, a toddler he had with him.

A report of a man hitting a woman in a vehicle on Spokane Avenue and the woman screaming for help and honking the horn turned out to be a verbal argument between a boyfriend and his girlfriend, who didn’t want him to drink and drive.

Columbia Falls Police officers responded to Martha Road Thursday afternoon after a fight between four people ballooned to include eight people. At least two people went to the hospital as a result of the fight, and at least one was found to be in possession of dangerous drugs.

A woman who reported an illegal marijuana grow operation on Martha Road eventually admitted she has not actually seen the grow operation and that’s just what she’s heard people say.

A pedestrian reported a sweet, fat beagle named Brody that wouldn’t stop following him.