Bongos drive neighbor bonkers
A Waverly Place man in love with bongos drew the attention of the Whitefish Police Department after his fed-up neighbor reported he had been playing them from 7 p.m. Thursday to 2:30 the following morning. A responding officer told the people at the home to keep it down.
The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office received a pair of seemingly connected theft reports, starting with a report that someone stole all of the medical equipment out of an emergency responder’s unlocked truck. About six hours later, a backpack containing medical equipment was found inside another burglarized vehicle in the same area. Money and an air freshener had been stolen from the second vehicle.
A woman reported that while she was walking on the trail to the river near Anderson Lane, she found a transient camp consisting of three tents and surrounded by lots of garbage and defecation. She also reported the transients were drunk and harassed her. An officer responded, ordering the transients to stop harassing people, clean up their mess and move along.
A White Birch Lane man threatened to shoot his neighbor’s German shepherd if nothing was done about his suspicions that the dog killed his dog last week.
A surprised Sleepy Hollow Road mother reported that after she let her son use her cellphone for several months, she got it back, and then received a text telling her where to pick up drugs.
A report of four youths with paint vandalizing a fire hydrant on East Evergreen Drive turned out to be a group of Eagle Scouts assisting in the approved repainting of the hydrants.
Someone spray painted profanity on a bank of mailboxes on Mill Street in Bigfork as well as another mailbox on River Street.
An administrator at a U.S. 2 West school called for information about the pursuit suspect still at large in the area.
Someone kicked in the door to a Lesley Avenue business in Somers and stole several hand tools and a tool box.
A very upset person reported a severely wounded deer needed to be dispatched after having been stuck in a fence off Montana 35 for an hour, with a fence pole piercing through its leg and into its body.
The Kalispell Police Department received a report of a vicious dog on Second Avenue West that attacked a dog being walked by a woman, breaking her dog’s leg, and then bit her son in the hand.
An officer reported that after he was flagged down by a passerby who reported a large rock in the road, he removed it — but the rock, he said, was “not large.”
Tire tracks and a damaged tree were the only evidence left after an unknown motorist drove through a Sherry Lane yard.
A man in his 30s was kicked out of a North Main Street business after flashing an employee.
Columbia Falls Police officers arrested a woman for criminal mischief, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct after she drunkenly tried to break into her ex-boyfriend’s home. She was first reported trying to use a skateboard to break in the front door, then going to the back door and trying to rip out the screen.
A woman who decided to make a quick trip home while washing her clothes at a Ninth Street West coin-operated laundry returned to discover someone had absconded with her laundry. A review of security camera footage showed another woman wheeling the victim’s clothes out of the business.
An officer advised several youths to find a better area to practice after they were reported hitting golf balls into oncoming traffic on Railroad Street.
A 13-year-old girl on her way home from the supermarket was shoved off her bicycle by a woman outside apartments on Eighth Avenue East North.
An officer gave a boy and his dog a ride home after the boy was reported having a hard time crossing the street with the dog, which seemed to be “too much for the boy to handle.”