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Trailer causes its own disturbance

| October 30, 2013 9:00 PM

A Flathead County Sheriff’s Office deputy was delayed while trying to get to a reported verbal disturbance on Pavilion Hill Avenue in Somers when a truck pulling a trailer almost wiped out about 10 cars.

A man reported that while walking along a trail with his wife he came across transient camps under the train trestle and under the viaduct, and that they noticed a transient in the distance who appeared to be aiming a bow and arrow at them.

A man was arrested and two others advised of their warrants at a Ridgewood Drive home after the man struck a woman — who was two months pregnant — in the stomach, causing her to double over in pain.

An Evergreen man called for a standby while he retrieved his belongings from the home of his grandmother — who he claimed was growing marijuana in her back yard.

A Montana 35 woman reported her neighbor approached her at her home twice in 45 minutes acting very strange. He was trying to talk to her, but she said she was unable to understand him and that he might be drunk.

A Holt Stage Road woman called wanting to know what to do with a horse abandoned at her property by a person who moved out of the state.

A motorist and her passenger were each reported smoking from what looked like marijuana pipes on U.S. 2 East in Kalispell.

A woman was reported using drugs in a camper next to a Montana 35 bar.

A center for human identification in Texas called requesting DNA samples from a missing person.


The Kalispell Police Department received a pair of calls from a Liberty Street woman after her drunk husband twice came by her home, the first time initially refusing to leave, and the second time forcing his way inside and grabbing her by the wrist. Both times, the man left on his bicycle and officers were unable to locate him.

A report of people in masks driving around inside a car, opening the trunk to show there were people inside it, and pointing guns at people turned out to be people just messing around with Halloween masks.

A man claimed he had just bought a new cellphone and while transferring his data discovered his phone was full of child pornography. The photos were collected, as were statements from store employees.

A wayward truck struck a Fourth Avenue West home and a phone line service box, also snagging the phone line and ripping it from the box.

A vehicle reported for repeatedly circling a North Main Street casino late at night, feared to be casing it for a crime, was found to be a man trying to find a place to sleep. Officers had a history with the man at another parking lot.

An officer removed a woman from a Third Avenue East North store from which she had already been banned.

A North Meridian Road mother wanted charges pressed against her daughter for stealing money out of her purse after she stole more than $100 from the woman’s tip jar the prior day.

A man called police to report his vehicle had been blocked in by a large white pickup, whose owner was teaching him a lesson for parking in a no-parking zone. The man said he was willing to pay a parking ticket, but needed to get his vehicle out. An officer reported the problem solved itself.


Whitefish Police Department officers threatened to arrest a man and woman after they responded twice at two locations to reports of the duo screaming and arguing.

At 5:21 a.m. Tuesday, an officer responded to a Central Avenue parking lot where he found the couple and their 18-month-old child. They reported to police they had not been fighting with one another, and the 20-plus minutes of profanities were them arguing on the phone with their parents.

Just 19 minutes later, an officer was called to Baker Avenue, this time due to a report that the man and woman were in each other’s faces screaming at one another. The caller was concerned for their child, who was wandering around the parking lot. The couple were advised that if officers were called out again, they would be arrested.

The owner of a pickup with pipes sticking out of the bed too far told an officer he understood the error of his ways and moved the vehicle.

An officer moved a transient along after the man, carrying a backpack with all his belongings and a sleeping bag, was reported walking toward the golf course despite someone telling him to leave.


A Columbia Falls Police Department officer was unable to find an undercover urinator after the man got out of a vehicle on Nucleus Avenue and peed on the side of a building.