Windshields are common target

The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office received reports of four vehicles burglarized with their windshields smashed across the county.

The first report came in at 10:19 a.m. Tuesday, when three vehicles with their windshields smashed were reported on Citadel Lane in Coram. It was unknown whether anything was stolen from inside.

Another report came in at 11:02 a.m., when a vehicle on Lower Valley Road in Kalispell was reported to have a windshield broken with a bat.

A Mission Trail resident in Kalispell also called the sheriff’s office Wednesday morning after her husband found their vehicle had been burglarized. Someone entered the unlocked vehicle and took the cash out of her husband’s wallet, leaving a flashlight behind.

A bartender at an Osprey Business Court bar in Columbia Falls apparently made the right decision in denying service to a customer, who then hit the business’ sign as he pulled out of the parking lot.

A Dawn Drive dog owner called after someone shot his dog with a pellet gun.

A woman reported her boyfriend got bit by a dog in the parking lot of a U.S. 2 East business while she was trying to get into their vehicle. The dog came out of a van that had a ‘beware of dog’ sign on the side.

A Rocky Mountain Drive woman in Lakeside reported a large red flashing light up the mountain toward the west that she had never seen before. She was advised it was likely a cell tower.

A Coram woman told police she suspected her daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend in the theft of her oxycodone and morphine.

The Kalispell Fire Department was called to a Conway Drive business shortly before 10 a.m. Wednesday after an employee saw smoke coming from the ceiling and evacuated the building. It was eventually determined that there was no fire, that the smoke he saw was caused by the motor on a ventilation unit burning out.

A runaway girl led to a pair of calls to the Kalispell Police Department overnight.

The girl was first reported as a runaway at 6:40 p.m. Tuesday after she didn’t return home from a restaurant. She was then located at her aunt’s home in Marion, and her aunt agreed to bring her back to town. The girl then escaped from the aunt.

At 5:56 the next morning, the girl’s mother reported the girl came home in the middle of the night, took the mother’s keys and bank card, then drove away in the mother’s car. The mother said her daughter left a note saying she was leaving town.

A man called police after a firearm was accidentally discharged by its owner while he was cleaning it at a Ninth Avenue West residence. When the firearm discharged, it fired a single round through the ceiling, but it did not strike anyone.

A woman complained that she bought a vehicle from a man then returned it to him after repairs weren’t made, and now he refuses to stop sending her rude emails.

A dog on Bluestone Drive chased a child and two adults before the second adult sprayed the animal with bear spray. The owners were not home at the time, but the dog was contained back in its own yard.

The janitor of an East Idaho Street bank contacted police to report a man sleeping outside the front door. He told a dispatcher the bank “would prefer that people do not do this.” The slumbering man was woken and advised to move along.

An angry West Arizona Street mother reportedly slapped a boy and threatened him with a gun after he broke up with her daughter.

The frustrated owner of a Seventh Avenue East North business requested that police help in dealing with several youths that have been hanging out in his parking lot during the evening and throwing rocks.

A string of thefts from vehicles in Whitefish left residents missing a pair of wallets, $80 in cash, two phone chargers, two fly-fishing rods, an iPod charger and several other items. Two of the victims reported to the Whitefish Police Department their vehicles smelled like cigarette smoke after the thefts.

A Somers Avenue resident complained that the neighbor was allowing his dog to run loose and that it defecated on the resident’s and other neighbors’ lawns.

A driver’s license was found and a passport lost in the downtown area.

A trio of thefts from vehicles were reported to the Polson Police Department in an hour and a half Tuesday morning. The burglarized vehicles were located on Eighth Avenue West, Fourth Avenue West, and Third Street West.