Abusive man sends wife to hospital

Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a man on preliminary charges of aggravated assault and partner or family member assault after his wife called and reported he had just beaten her up, giving her a concussion and a possible broken leg. The owner of the couple’s apartment later called for information after another tenant told the landlord about all the law enforcement and medical responders.

An unknown caller impersonating Sheriff Chuck Curry contacted a woman, telling her he needed to meet with her on Lower Valley Road. She went to the address and found no one there, but later received a call from the man saying she was there, but late. The woman then called dispatch and was contacted by the real Curry, who said he had not called her and didn’t know who she was.

Deputies responded twice to a Hungry Horse Boulevard home, where a drunken woman was reported beating on the door of her friend’s home, where her daughter was staying the night with her friend’s daughter. Both the woman and the friend were found to be drunk, the woman too drunk to tell deputies what happened.

A man reported his 19-year-old daughter was assaulted while at a party near Columbia Falls and had to be taken to the emergency room.

A nervous North Juniper Bay Road woman reported she is woken up approximately three times every night by explosions and loud bangs.

An East Lakeshore Drive man called to ask if the sheriff’s office could dispose of an old dynamite detonation cord, but later called back and said it had been taken care of.

A Gunsite Loop man reported his neighbor has a fence on an easement, and while U-Dig was on site marking water lines, the neighbor said he would not move the fence and would shoot them all. The man said his neighbor had pulled a gun on him before.

A group of gallivanting goats were rounded back up after being reported loose on Montana 206.

An animal control officer impounded a hound dog with “strong lungs” and transported it to the county animal shelter.

The Whitefish Police Department received a pair of bar-related calls Thursday night and Friday morning.

At 11:07 p.m. Thursday, a man was reported trying to fight with patrons at a Baker Avenue bar.

At 12:06 a.m. Friday, a patron at a Central Avenue bar reported a man was being verbally abusive to people in the bar during an open mic event.

A mad mom reported her son gets harassed by another child when he rides his bicycle to school and was almost hit by a vehicle recently trying to get away from the child. She told a dispatcher that “extra patrol is not doing (expletive),” and wanted to know what she could do, “before my son gets killed.”

A man reported his son found a scuffed-up trolling motor that looked like it had fallen off a boat lying across Wisconsin Avenue.

An observant person turned in a wallet to police after finding it and noticing the ID didn’t match the credit cards inside.

Someone shot out the window of a vehicle on West Eighth Street.