Dog, deer both meet bad end
The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office responded to Conn Road in Columbia Falls after a gutted deer was found next to a dog that had been shot and killed.
A concerned observer called the sheriff’s office after a drunk woman whose breath smelled of alcohol and who had an open beer in her vehicle picked up her child from a Gopher Lane school in Marion.
A Hungry Horse man and his Third Street West neighbor were counseled after the neighbor blocked the man’s driveway with snow.
An Ashley Drive man complained about his neighbor making excessive noise chopping wood. None of the man’s other neighbors reported hearing anything.
A man was arrested for drunk driving during a traffic stop on Montana 35.
The Kalispell Police Department received a trio of accidental dials over Monday and Tuesday, including one from a woman while she and her husband were getting into bed and two from workers at a U.S. 93 South hotel.
An unknown man trying to get into a woman’s car on First Street East — reportedly talking to the empty car, saying “unlock the door” — was advised by an offcer that it was not his brother’s car.
A group of five youths were warned to stay off a Fifth Avenue West woman’s property after she reported having problems with high school students breaking into her home.
An officer’s swift response to a Sunny View Lane business kept a woman who smelled of alcohol from driving herself home.
A boy was cited and suspended from school after being found in possession of tobacco.
A girl was reported behaving in a disorderly manner at a Wolfpack Way school, cursing at staff and acting generally ungovernable.
A girl was reported by one of her parents after she was found to be in possession of illegal narcotics. The parent took the drugs from the girl and turned them over to an officer.
A man was reported running away from the area of a U.S. 2 West bar after two gunshots were heard.
A suspicious man was reported sitting in his pickup truck on Second Avenue West, repeatedly using a lighter for about 20 minutes.
A concerned passerby contacted the Whitefish Police Department to report the city hall sign on East Second Street was hanging very low, appearing that it could come down at any time and hit someone walking by on the head.
A cautious clerk called for contact after a suspicious man came in the U.S. 93 South business and started asking questions about employees on shift, when they worked, and other unusual questions.
A Second Avenue West North daughter contacted the Columbia Falls Police Department after someone hit her mother’s house, next door, with a car while her mother was out of town.