Suicide victim pulled from river

The body of a 74-year-old Columbia Falls woman was found in the Flathead River near her hometown shortly before noon Tuesday. According to a release from the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office, the woman had been reported missing yesterday evening, and her vehicle was found today at the Teakettle fishing access.

Her body was located during an aerial search by helicopter. An investigation indicated the woman’s death is a result of suicide, and the cause of her death is consistent with drowning. The investigation remains ongoing.

A Solberg Drive man’s irate and drunk girlfriend reportedly tried to start fights, tore apart his clothes, attacked him with her hands, and followed him around yelling at him after he took her keys so she wouldn’t drive drunk. She eventually agreed to stay at her mother’s house.

A sneaky slugger caused heavy damage to a pickup truck on East Reserve Drive with a baseball bat.

Someone who decided work was overrated vandalized the tires on a forklift and tried to break into a manager’s trailer with a pry bar at a U.S. 2 East job site.

A woman apologized after her phone “went crazy and dialed 911 for no reason” while she was watching a movie on the device.

A confused passerby reported a metal box on First Avenue East sounded like it had an owl locked inside. A responding officer determined the box made mechanical sounds that, while they sounded like one, were not being generated by an owl.

A trio of calls led to the eventual capture of a loose llama on Bowdish Road.

A man reported his neighbor to the Kalispell Police Department for unsafe yard work after the neighbor started to cut a tree down, then left the mostly cut-down tree chained to a still-standing tree. The man said a cable had already snapped and damaged his vehicle and that he believed the tree was going to fall and kill someone.

A distraught dog owner reported her dog jumped out of her vehicle while she was at a First Avenue East North store and a witness saw another woman pick up the dog and take it in her vehicle. The dog’s owner said she believed the woman stole her dog as it had tags that included her phone number.

The nurse manager of a Claremont Street business reported a pair of narcotic patches were missing.

A report of garbled screams coming from an Eighth Avenue East home led to a drunk man turning his music down and agreeing not to scream any more.

An inquisitive 12th Avenue West resident called to ask about polygraph tests and how to go about getting one done.

A man was arrested for partner or family member assault after his wife reported he had beaten her while going through methamphetamine withdrawal.

The Whitefish Police Department received a report that about $300 worth of musical scores were stolen from a Fourth Street East property. The person who reported the crime said an internal solution was going to be pursued before charges were requested.

A Baker Avenue woman called police with her concern that a particular man may have been on her property. She just wanted to ask officers to call her if he was in the area because “destruction of property” would occur.

A man reported his dog was attacked by a pair of pit bulls in downtown Whitefish Saturday night.