Mystery checks arrive for girl
A confused Kickbusch Lane father in Coram contacted the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office after his 17-year-old daughter received a pair of checks through FedEx with no documentation included. The checks, from a medical association and an air charter company, were both found to have been written from a closed account that had been hacked, and both companies filed police reports at their local police departments.
A man was taken straight to jail on a $75,000 felony warrant after being released from a Heritage Way mental health clinic.
An angry patron at a Central Avenue bar in Martin City was reported for trying to start fights. She agreed to go home for the night after officers arrived.
A brazen burglar escaped from a Demersville Road home with a shotgun, a rifle, and a handgun.
A group of youths were reported driving down Woodland Park Drive while passing around a bottle of liquor.
A woman reported someone threw garbage at her while she was at a Woodland Park Drive gas station.
A man with a shaved head was reported acting weird and kicking golf balls at cars in a Montana 35 parking lot.
A Harmony Court woman complained about a pair of pushy vacuum salespeople offering a free carpet cleaning. She thought they seemed more interested in getting inside her home than selling her a vacuum.
A border collie on Riverside Road in Bigfork was transported to an animal clinic by an animal control officer after it was reported to be salivating heavily and walking in circles, panting very hard and repeatedly collapsing. The officer reported the dog appeared to be both in distress and sick.
A woman reported her Electric Avenue store in Bigfork and the neighboring store were both burglarized.
A person driving a nursery truck carrying a tree accidentally knocked a light off its pole.
A concerned citizen reported someone was impersonating an undercover federal agent.
An employee of an Electric Avenue business in Bigfork was reported for embezzling.
An unknown motorist drove through the fence of an East Reserve Drive business.
A Sixth Avenue West woman contacted the Kalispell Police Department after someone knocked on her door at 2 a.m., after which she saw a man getting in her car and going through the center console. The man then got out of the vehicle and went back to her side door, trying again to get inside.
A woman was transported by ambulance for withdrawal and delusional behavior after she was initially reported by a 10th Avenue West neighbor who said she and another neighbor were on drugs. The neighbor also said the woman was making advances toward his wife.
A man was reported laying down in front of a Seventh Avenue West hardware store. He was found to be extremely drunk, and was cleared by medical responders before being turned over to his father.
A group of three “skater” youths reported smoking marijuana on U.S. 93 South were actually smoking cigarettes.
A man found his friend’s stolen car behind a U.S. 93 South hotel.
A Kirsten Drive woman reported someone carved bark off her tree.
A counterfeit $20 bill was used at a Hutton Ranch Road store.
A house on Fifth Avenue East was egged.
The Whitefish Police Department received a call from a U.S. 93 South clinic, where someone had stolen the top off a picnic table.
Someone sprayed graffiti on a window at a Flathead Avenue government office.
A Crescent Drive woman contacted the Columbia Falls Police Department after a baby black bear got into her back yard behind her garage and climbed a tree.
An engaged couple got into a fight at a Ninth Street West clinic, where the woman hit both the man and their child.