Empty tax threat reported to sheriff
A concerned Country Way East man contacted the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office after receiving a call from a man stating he was with the IRS and claiming an officer would be at his home to arrest and incarcerate him for unpaid back taxes. The man said his caller ID showed that the call originated from New York.
A man called the sheriff’s office after someone at a Lake Blaine Road bar contacted him and told him another man at the bar was making threats about killing the caller’s wife and looking up videos on how to stab people.
An Evergreen woman wanted a deputy to speak with her 12-year-old child after the child picked up a rifle and pointed it at a 6-year-old sibling. The gun was not loaded.
An Evergreen woman reported her husband’s ex-girlfriend — a probation officer in Idaho — was threatening her via text messages, using language that sounded “very dangerous and disturbing.”
A pair of pickups were reported spinning brodies in a U.S. 2 West parking lot. A deputy located one of the vehicles and counseled the motorist on his driving.
Motorists in a pickup truck and a passenger car were reported fighting each other with their vehicles on U.S. 2 East just south of the airport, swerving at and flashing lights at each other.
An animal control officer found more than 20 cats in the front yard of a Voerman Road home in Whitefish after he responded to a report of cats left there to die.
An extremely drunken man who lost track of time called 911 to ask what day it was.
A quartet of wandering goats were reported on Hoffman Draw in Kila.
A motorcyclist was reported spinning brodies in a U.S. 2 East parking lot. The brodie-spinning biker was warned about driving recklessly.
A man was arrested for attempted burglary when deputies responded to several alarms at a Montana 35 gas station, triggered when glass was broken.
A wounded man contacted the Kalispell Police Department to report that 25 people attacked him and his partner on Denver Avenue at the end of August, leaving him with a “fractured face,” and that he believed it was planned as part of a hate crime.
A worker who was at a foreclosed Ninth Avenue West house to shut off the water called police after finding a large case in the basement with an “expensive-looking camera” inside that said KRMC on the side of it.
An officer stopped to investigate a pair of vehicles in Lawrence Park and found people shooting a movie, who had previously made parks and recreation staff aware of their activity.
A passerby reported a woman running down North Meridian Road with a horse that the passerby believed she had stolen.
A tin containing multiple bank cards belonging to different people was found in a West Center Street business.
The manager of a Sixth Street West property reported someone had dumped rocks down a sewer clean-out.
A Second Street West man contacted police after finding his ex-wife — who has a restraining order against him — on his property. He believed she had taken items from his porch in the past.
A manager at a U.S. 93 South store found a purse that contained drugs, but no identification.
A stop sign was found in the middle of the road at the intersection of 13th Street East and Third Avenue East.
A Whitefish Police officer was unable to locate several culprits after receiving a report of someone firing a rifle down by the river. The caller saw three people running east across Spokane Avenue and then down East Eighth Street immediately after hearing the shots. The caller said they were possibly teenagers, one of whom appeared to be carrying a hunting rifle.
A man was arrested for drunken driving during a traffic stop on Edgewood Place.
A theft victim called the Columbia Falls Police Department after tools, a laptop, an iPad and a computer screen were stolen from an unlocked vehicle on Rapids Avenue. The victim did have a lead, however, in the form of location software that showed where the iPad was at the time.