Calls report canines versus chickens
Dogs, chickens and dogs attacking chickens led to several calls to the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office Thursday.
A Bigfork woman reported a neighbor’s dog came out and bit her leg while she was walking past the Echo Lake Road home.
A Kila woman on Hoffman Draw accidentally pushed the emergency button on her phone, causing it to dial 911 while she was feeding her chickens.
A Kalispell resident on West Valley Acres reported a pit bull that keeps coming onto the property and chasing chickens.
A dog attacked and killed several chickens at a McMannamy Draw home.
A car full of “young-looking people” was reported traveling down the wrong side of the road on Third Avenue West, swerving into traffic and nearly hitting several vehicles. The car eventually stopped at the parking lot of a U.S. 93 South hotel.
A representative of a Flathead Drive business reported the theft of several thousand dollars’ worth of lumber sometime over the past few months.
A report of gunshots and people yelling near Collier Drive turned out to be a party around a bonfire where someone had thrown a can of bee spray into the fire, causing the can to explode with a sound similar to gunfire.
A bail bondsman reported a bond forgery in Somers after a woman’s husband signed for her bond instead of him.
A man contacted deputies for help after his wife refused to let him back into their West Cottonwood Drive house.
A West Cottonwood Drive resident complained that a woman keeps letting her 13-year-old daughter drive and asked for an extra patrol to catch the underage motorist.
An upset Tronstad Road man reported a person on a motorcycle spun out or sped by his vehicle at 1 a.m., coming into his driveway and intentionally spitting gravel at his truck.
A group of five teenagers’ five-finger discount drew the attention of the Kalispell Police Department when an employee at an East Idaho Street pizza business reported the teens came in, stole a pizza off the warming rack and went outside to eat it, refusing to pay for it.
All four suspects located by police continued to refuse to pay, and they were banned from the store after the employee refused to request charges be pressed against the group.
An officer responded to Fourth Street West after a call came in from a drunken-sounding woman who said she had fallen. The woman had sustained a broken hand and a severe laceration and was screaming loud enough that a passerby also called police.
The mother of a 17-year-old boy on probation reported she could smell marijuana, went downstairs and found a pipe but couldn’t find any drugs, although she said her son “looks stoned.”
An observant passerby reported watching three girls and two boys meet in an alley off Fifth Avenue West, where the boys gave the girls money and the girls gave the boys drugs.
A man was released after trying to start fights with people at a First Avenue East business. A patron dragged the man out of the store and restrained him until police arrived.
Someone threw a glass bottle at people doing a prayer vigil on North Meridian Road at Liberty Street.
A bus driver called to ask whether the patrons of his party shuttle could have open containers of alcohol on the bus.
A drug pipe found in a Sunny View Lane patient’s belongings was collected by an officer for destruction.
A white 1996 Subaru Impreza was stolen on Ninth Avenue West.
A Whitefish Police officer gave a man a ride to a motel and got him checked into a room for the night after the man reported a fight between him and his friends. He was found on Colorado Avenue wearing a white T-shirt covered in blood.
A miffed mother reported her son was hit by a vehicle while riding his bicycle in a parking lot on Central Avenue. The driver gave her son her first name but did not call police, packing up the boy and his bicycle and dropping him off at home before leaving.
A woman reported her boyfriend was designing a ring with a local jeweler, and after they decided not to use that jeweler, the jeweler refused to return their stones.
A report of drug activity on East Fourth Street led to a boy’s arrest and his incarceration in the juvenile detention center.
A fed-up person on Karrow Avenue complained that dump trucks speed through the area every day at 8 a.m. An officer agreed to contact the superintendent of construction to ask the truck drivers to slow down.
The Columbia Falls Police Department received two calls about a woman, first when she was sitting on railroad tracks near Second Avenue West North for two and a half hours, and then when she was lingering outside a Fifth Street West business, harassing one customer and refusing to let an elderly woman leave.
A man was released to his mother after his blood-alcohol level was measured at 0.147 percent — nearly twice the legal limit — during a traffic stop on South Hilltop Road.
A Glacier National Park representative brought a drunken man to the police department.