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Was Harvey Wallbanger intoxicated?

| April 3, 2014 9:00 PM

The Kalispell Police Department received two reports of a very drunk man wearing a black and red flannel shirt, blue parachute pants and aviator sunglasses yelling while holding a beer and having a hard time walking on East Washington Street. When located by an officer, his name was found to also be the name of, appropriately, an alcoholic drink. He was cited for being an intoxicated pedestrian.

A man was reported to police after being seen passed out in the grass outside a Third Avenue East North grocery store with his pants down and his private parts exposed. He eventually got up, pulled up his pants and got on a bus, riding to Evergreen.

A woman reported that, while she was in her car in a U.S. 93 South parking lot making a phone call, a man in a pickup truck approached her and accused her and her passenger of stalking his friend, then peeled out, shooting rocks on her windshield.

A Flathead Crimestoppers tip led to a man being arrested on a felony warrant at an Appleway Drive apartment.

A suspicious motorist was reported driving slowly through a Greatview Drive neighborhood, spotlighting houses.

A woman reported that during a supervised visit on U.S. 93 South, the father was smoking marijuana.

An offering box four feet tall was found, with a lock still on it, in a drainage in Lawrence Park.

A garage and truck on Northland Drive were egged.


The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office received a call from one of its animal control officers when a man known to panhandle showed up at the officer’s Columbia Falls property upset that his dog had been taken away. The man, who has a non-extraditable warrant out of Florida for violating his probation on an original charge of buying cocaine, was cited for disorderly conduct.

A Riverside Drive man was educated on owning horses and the proper care the animals require after it was reported that his horses appeared to have bad feet and were being neglected. The man made an appointment with a veterinarian while an animal control officer was at the property.

A Bigfork woman on Echo Lake Road reported a woman driving by her home stopped and put a piece of paper in her mailbox that said “feed your animals or give them up... we are watching.” She said her animals were perfectly fine, and that there had been complaints made in the past.

A woman reported that she was receiving threatening text messages from a person who had been released from the county jail on his or her own recognizance.

Someone kicked in the door to an Ash Road business, but it did not appear as if anything was stolen.

A Cobbler Village Lane man called asking how to get his rifle and sword back.

Marijuana was found in a pair of pants at a U.S. 2 East business.


A meandering motorist decided the third time was the charm, reportedly taking down a trio of stop signs on Denver Street, Spokane Avenue and Colorado Avenue. He was also reported to have previously been spinning brodies in a nearby field. The driver was located by a Whitefish Police Department officer and arrested on preliminary misdemeanor counts of criminal mischief, failure to remain at the scene of an accident, reckless driving, and three drunk driving related charges.

An East Second Street man contacted police after receiving a strange, threatening call from a “mechanical voice.”

A report of a disturbance in a Wisconsin Avenue apartment building involving children and parents all arguing turned out to be the family playing loud music. They agreed to quiet down.


A Columbia Falls Police Department officer who responded to a report of a party bus on Wildcat Drive with a running engine and playing loud music found everything quiet, but did locate an old school bus, painted black, with neon lights flashing inside.

Another vehicle in a park was reported playing loud music with “heavy bass,” keeping a woman’s baby awake.

An officer was unable to locate a man so drunk he could hardly stand while he was inside a Ninth Street West store, despite searching nearby gas stations and bars.