Llamas on loose: Who ya gonna call?
The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office received a pair of calls Tuesday regarding the escapades of escaped llamas. At 6:12 a.m., a man on a bicycle was reported trying to catch his llama on the highway south of Montana 40. Four hours later, another llama was reported running down Johnson Lane.
A shocked Antelope Trail resident in Whitefish reported sometime over the weekend that someone shot at his house, possibly with a .22-caliber firearm. He said the bullet went through the wall by the front door and lodged in the kitchen wall.
A not-so-subtle prank by a girl against her best friend drew a law-enforcement response after the girl called her friend’s parents and reported she was being raped. After a significant response including multiple deputies and the tracking of a cellphone, Lake County deputies were able to report the girl was safe at home.
A remorseful woman turned herself in after having embezzled money from her employer in Lakeside over a span of at least 10 months.
A thief who desperately wanted to get started on his lawn stole a lawn mower and a string trimmer from a South Cedar Street garage.
A safe was stolen from a Montana 35 business after the thief gained entry by breaking a bathroom window.
A Kila woman shared her regret and anger after letting friends borrow her horse trailer and receiving it back wrecked and totaled.
Deputies responded to a Shelter Valley Drive home after a woman threw a glass at her brother, which smashed against his head, leaving him bleeding.
An angry Gilbert Lake Drive resident threatened to shoot his or her neighbor and the neighbor’s dog.
The Kalispell Police Department forwarded a report of a bomb at a Kalispell school to the Department of Homeland Security. The caller claimed to live in Puerto Rico, but the phone call was tracked to somewhere within the U.S. and the report turned out not to be credible.
A shoplifter threw away his second chance after first being cited and released after trying to steal from a U.S. 93 North store. Officers arrested the 18-year-old after he later called the business from which he had allegedly tried to steal, being belligerent on the phone, cursing at and threatening employees.
A very drunk man was seen wobbling around and urinating on Main Street.
A manic man was reported “losing it” on the side of Airport Road, with bouncers from a nearby bar trying to calm him down. He had been in the bar and was cut off an hour prior.
An irate man got upset and swore at a dispatcher after being told all officers were on higher priority calls and could not make it to him to open his car, which he had locked running on U.S. 2 West.
A helpful woman reported that an industrial-size generator stolen from a job site in Kalispell was now in Huntington, Texas, and that someone had tried to sell it to her boyfriend.
Police received a pair of reports of a person in a black minivan trying to hit people on purpose, even turning around and driving back to chase after a 13-year-old boy on a bicycle on Financial Drive.
A forgetful man called with questions about logging the serial numbers of his belongings in case they get stolen, but didn’t know his own address and barely knew his phone number.
A helpful wife took the family vehicle home after her husband was arrested during a traffic stop on South Meridian Road for drunk driving, drug possession, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
A shocked Fourth Avenue West resident contacted the Columbia Falls Police Department to report what he believed was an explosive situation after finding what looked like an unexploded pipe bomb in the trees. The “bomb” turned out to be an empty pipe covered with artificial Christmas tree pine needles.
A disorderly man was kicked out of a Ninth Street West business for the night after he was reported swearing and causing problems.
A not-so-subtle man was reported to the Whitefish Police Department when he was seen smashing the front passenger window of a vehicle on Depot Street and filling his pockets. It turned out the man had broken into his own vehicle.