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Man's stuff goes missing during hospital stay

| September 13, 2013 9:00 PM

A hospital patient contacted the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office to report that after he was transferred to treatment, his landlord and adult protective services moved his belongings into a storage unit, and that since then, all of the belongings had been gone through and a lot of items were missing.

A report of an arm sticking out from underneath the guardrail along Montana 82 led to a deputy discovering a man who said he had been assaulted at a nearby bowling alley.

Someone broke into a Mill Street bar in Bigfork and stole a cash register and several bottles of liquor. The burglar may have been caught on one of the bar’s security cameras.

A Fifth Street West resident in Hungry Horse reported his neighbor passed him in a vehicle and then spun out, spitting gravel at him.

An assault victim had to go to an urgent care clinic after someone visiting another resident at the Hidden Meadow Lane property pushed the victim hard enough to leave an indentation in Sheetrock.

Unknown vandals busted out the windows at a Montana 35 coffee kiosk.

A man who had been storing his belongings at the First Street South West home of one of his friends in Hungry Horse reported his friend was now throwing all his stuff into the street and letting people take it.

A group of drunken people were reported sitting in a car in the parking lot of a Ninth Street West business in Columbia Falls, asking customers for money, and then threatening to beat them up if they refused.

An upset Sonic Way man reported his neighbor’s pit bulls got into his sheep pen.


A woman who had had enough contacted the Kalispell Police Department after an employee of a First Avenue East North business looked up her phone number in the company database, then texted and called her repeatedly for a year asking her out, despite her repeatedly telling him to stop.

A group of youths reported a bald man in a black trenchcoat with a dog approached them and asked them to meet him by the river for drugs.

An unsure observer reported what she thought was a drug deal at a West Idaho Street parking lot. The woman said she saw multiple people drive in and get in another vehicle, where someone had a big box, possibly full of baggies. She did see one person with a large roll of money.

A pair of men were reported hanging out behind a Husky Street business, drinking and smoking marijuana. A responding officer said the men were warned about drinking in public, but that there was no indication of drug use.

A quartet of bicycling youths were reminded that they had been banned from an East Idaho Street property and told they could be charged if they returned.

A woman was reported panhandling while accompanied by her German shepherd at the intersection of East Idaho Street and Fourth Avenue East North.

A woman was cited and released after an officer saw her holding drugs.


A movie-making motorcyclist was reported to the Whitefish Police Department after the biker was reported speeding rapidly down Big Mountain Road, passing cars, before speeding down Wisconsin Avenue, passing two cars at once. The motorcyclist had a GoPro camera mounted on his helmet.

Police received a pair of reports of disorderly people near a U.S. 93 West golf course, the first of eight drunken people dressed mostly in black walking in and near the highway. When a motorist slowed down so as not to hit them, one of the men in the group started yelling at him.

The second call came just two minutes later, reporting a party in the golf course parking lot with loud people and loud music.

A man trying to help an elderly Ashar Avenue woman with her phone accidentally dialed 911. A responding officer reported everything was fine and that the man was a little drunk and “having a good time.”

A Baker Avenue woman called to report someone was “creeping her.”

Animal activity reportedly woke a Baker Avenue woman up “again.”


A Columbia Falls Police officer responded to a 13th Street West school after a student threatened several other students.

A distraught daughter called police from Martha Road to report her mother had beaten her up.