Mystery message: 'Can the dead live again?'

An unsettled Stumptown Loop woman called the Whitefish Police Department to report that, throughout the day, things had been opened and moved around in her home and containers of food had been left on the counter. She also said she had just noticed her door unlocked and open and found a brochure on her front step that read, “Can the dead live again?”

A woman reported that she left her house the prior night so her roommate could get his stuff, and when she returned she found he had stolen rims, cash, her dog, and various other things and also broke a computer and trashed the house.

Officers were unable to locate a pair of people on the ice near River Lakes Drive that a passer-by was concerned might fall in.

A large black-and-white dog was reported running around the neighborhood in the area of Colorado Avenue trying to bite people.

A recently divorced man called the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office out of concern for his former wife after a landlord contacted him and said no contact had been made with her in a couple of days. He later discovered she had been fired from her job two weeks earlier, and when he checked on the house, the door was held shut with a rope stretching into the house. A deputy later contacted with the woman, who was safe and sound.

A deputy saved a 97-year-old Kalispell man from making a huge mistake after the man reported he had been speaking with people about him winning $2.5 million and his plan to meet them at the airport to give them $4,000 in exchange for the millions. The man wanted a deputy to accompany him to the meeting, but instead the deputy advised him it was a scam and not to meet the people.

A West Cottonwood Drve man received a phone call from someone claiming to be in Philadelphia who said he had the resident’s sister-in-law in custody and wanted $7,500 to avoid criminal charges. The man told the Sheriff’s Office that his sister-in-law lives in Arkansas.

A Patrick Creek Road man was arrested after his wife said he punched her and threw her across the house and also threw their daughter to the ground.

A pair of motorists reported an enraged woman who passed one of them in Somers, slammed on her brakes, jumped out and started screaming at the driver behind her.

A U.S. 93 South woman near Whitefish reported someone, possibly her ex, forced her door open with what looked like a drill bit.

A Badrock Drive resident near Columbia Falls said his girlfriend stole “a large amount” of money from him and refused to give it back until he moved out.

A Yeoman Hall Road resident’s cats were chased by a pair of dogs that are also eating the cats’ food.

A motorist was reported spinning brodies and driving recklessly in a field before racing up and down First Avenue. The vehicle also had loud exhaust.

A woman brought her son to the Columbia Falls Police Department to speak to an officer about him running amok. The boy was then arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia.