Night deposits nearly became withdrawals

A problem with too much money brought a call to Kalispell Police after a night deposit box on U.S. 93 North became so full that deposits were not dropping in properly, and as one person reported, “anybody could reach in and take all the deposits.” Security personnel responded and took the two accessible deposits from the box, marking it "out of order.”

A masked masturbator was reported wearing a black ski mask and pleasuring himself in front of the windows to a Heritage Way business, first getting people’s attention by yelling “Hey!”

The manager of a U.S. 93 South hotel reported the front desk had received several sexually explicit phone calls from a couple of unknown men.

A 17-year-old Whalebone Drive boy was reported to police by his mother after the boy failed a breath alcohol test earlier in the evening that the mother had asked an officer to give him. The mother reported that after the boy had failed the test, being cited by the officer and ordered not to leave, he had left with his father and gone to a Woodland Avenue bar.

An unaware parent and several children were advised they were on private property after the property owner reported signs — including food and human waste — that someone had been camping on their property. The family was apparently out catching moths.

A passerby reported seeing a teenage girl jump out of a vehicle with out-of-state license plates and start running. A woman who may have been the girl’s mother then took off after her, tripped, and accidentally tackled the girl. Both got back into the vehicle and left.

Someone damaged security cameras around Bigfork, possibly as a protest against surveillance.

A report of a large party on Rockefeller Drive turned out to be several very vocal video gamers.

A nurse on Sunny View Lane called for a female officer to assist in an examination of a dangerous prisoner.

A shirtless man was reported panhandling on North Main Street.

A skateboarder skirting the rules at the skate park had his board confiscated for 30 days.

A 54-year-old Whitefish man had to set his Piper Super Cub down in a field in the Blasdel Waterfowl Area after an engine failure forced an emergency landing. Flathead County Sheriff Chuck Curry said the man talked to air traffic control before landing safely in the field, and that he had no passengers and was uninjured.

A woman contacted the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office after suffering a broken fingernail and bruising on her breasts and wrists during an altercation with her apparently not-so-friendly fiance.

A group of daredevil youths were seen climbing a power tower on U.S. 2 West just east of its intersection with Montana 40. Do we need to point out that this is dangerous?

Someone dying to get out on the water stole a paddle boat from an Echo Lake Road home in Bigfork.

A resident of U.S. 2 East in Coram reported an explosive problem with his neighbor, whom he said keeps throwing fireworks at his horses while he is trying to train them.

An Airport Road man reported his ex-wife called him from Washington to say she had documents containing all his family’s names and Social Security numbers and that she was going to use it to steal their identities.

A passerby reported seeing a man hit a child in the face and later in the midsection, and that the child — who appeared to be 6 or 7 years old — may have had a bloody face afterward.

A spirited game of hide and seek was overheard by a dispatcher, along with the sound of children giggling, when a man accidentally dialed 911 in the area of Barnes Lane.

A youth with a pistol in his hand was reported walking down Shady Lane.

An East Cottonwood Drive man complained that someone in the area was burning garbage and creating an awful odor in the neighborhood.

A man initially escorted out of a U.S. 93 South hotel by Whitefish Police Department officers after threatening to burn it down later returned, putting a hole in one of the walls in his room, bending a screen, and cracking the door frame. The hotel charged his credit card for the damage.

A Scott Avenue woman reported her neighbor was saying not nice things about her and she felt threatened.