Hospital departure ends in arrest
Flathead County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested a man after he was seen leaving the hospital Wednesday morning, stumbling and admitting to drinking.
When spoken to at the hospital, the man acted belligerently. A security guard from the hospital followed the man to help deputies keep tabs on him until they intercepted and arrested him.
A Hidden Trail man reported his enraged ex showed up at his house, pounded on the door, threw trash everywhere, wrecked the porch, and called the man, threatening him. She also reportedly knocked on his door for an extended period of time after she was told he was not around.
A Hollow Lane resident found tire tracks in the snow around their house, from which footprints led to the back patio, where the screen door was missing, although it didn’t appear as though the would-be-burglar made it inside.
A 50-year-old man apparently passed out in a vehicle on West Reserve Drive turned out to be taking a nap while waiting for his wife to pick him up.
A man who hit a deer with his car called to ask if he could dispatch it and take it home, but he was advised it is not yet legal for the public to pick up dead deer from the road.
A person backed up to and drove off with a pop-up camper from a property on First Avenue South in Martin City.
A call from a panicked parent was transferred to poison control after an 18-month-old boy took a big gulp of nail polish remover.
A Dillon Road man reported someone shot a deer on his property and was gutting it.
A couple, formerly of South Meridian Road, were counseled by Kalispell Police Department officers after it was reported that they kept returning every day to their former apartment building to check all three units’ mailboxes for mail intended for them. The couple was advised how to go through the post office rather than searching mailboxes.
A scuffle broke out in a line outside a new Treeline Road store “over a panic of line position getting into the store” when someone cut in front of one man, then pushed him.
Whitefish Police Department officers responded to a Woodland Place home to deal with an unruly neighbor after a woman reported the neighbor’s car was blocking hers in, and when she went to his door, he answered it with a gun in his hand and refused to move his vehicle. He later moved it after speaking with officers.
A Columbia Falls Police Department officer responded to a Third Street West home at noon Tuesday to deal with a husband and wife fighting in the driveway. In addition to fighting with her husband, the wife also threw rocks at the windows of his black “sporty” car. The husband left for the rest of the day.
Evergreen Fire Rescue was called to a Cardiff Avenue home Tuesday evening for a possible structure fire, but the not-quite-raging inferno was confined to a barbecue.