Friend's traffic stop leads to complaint
A concerned man called the Kalispell Police Department to say that his friend had been pulled over on U.S. 93 South by someone in a beige Jeep Cherokee with a small light on top. The driver claimed to be an officer and asked the friend where the man was, then left. The man said he believed this was a person impersonating an officer trying to find him because he just got out of jail.
An observant passer-by reported witnessing a 5-year-old hit by a car on North Meridian Road, and that the father and the child then left for the hospital, but emergency room staffers said they never showed up.
A drunk mother led to a pair of calls to police by her ex-husband after he first received a call from the principal of their children’s school saying she showed up an hour late to pick them up and seemed to have been drinking. He called back again after calling her on the phone to say she was “definitely” drunk and was slurring her speech.
A “very upset” man called wanting to know why spitting on someone is considered assault and having to breathe in secondhand smoke is not — after he breathed in smoke on Hutton Ranch Road.
An extremely drunk man was chided by a dispatcher after calling 911 to ask for the number to a local pizza place.
A violent 14-year-old boy was reported for threatening children on Second Street West, shoving an 11-year-old girl to the ground, breaking another 14-year-old boy’s bicycle and picking up an 8-year-old boy and putting him back down “forcefully.”
A Texas Avenue woman contacted the Whitefish Police Department after someone broke into her barn and stole all of her saddles — two of which were irreplaceable antiques and one of which was valued at between $1,500 and $2,000.
A Pine Avenue man received a surprise when he found two purses in his hedges that he believed were thrown from the road. An officer made contact with the owner of the purses, which she said she had lost that night.
A drunk bicyclist was the cause of a call to police after he was asked to leave a U.S. 93 South gas station when he was caught drinking on the property and riding in circles around the pumps.
A drunk Denver Street man was reported shouting obscenities at his neighbor and the neighbor’s friend.
A Third Avenue East resident contacted the Columbia Falls Police Department after watching a motorist drive through the nearby baseball park and pull up to the playground. A responding officer advised the driver that she could not park on the grass.