Bicycle thief strikes during birthday

Kalispell Police Department officers responded to a pair of rollover accidents Saturday morning.

A woman had to be extricated from her vehicle on Farm to Market Road when she was stuck inside, suspended by her seat belt. She suffered a head injury but was not bleeding. Another motorist rolled a vehicle off Airport Road.

A maddened mother reported she had just brought a bicycle home from the store for her daughter’s birthday party and when they went outside for her to see it, it had already been stolen from the Sixth Avenue East North home.

A weary woman reported a motorist was being robbed on U.S. 93 South but then realized she had been dreaming as she was suffering from severe sleep deprivation.

An officer responded to a U.S. 2 West fast-food restaurant after a drunk, crying, shoeless woman walked up to the drive-through window and said she needed help.

An officer was unable to locate a man reported for harassing motorists at a West Idaho Street gas station and exposing himself to the clerk.

A man was arrested after trying to flee a Hutton Ranch Road store with a cart full of merchandise without paying.

A boy was arrested during a traffic stop on 11th Street West and eventually turned over to his father.

A pair of youths were reported smoking outside an East Oregon Street residence.

A woman was arrested during a traffic stop on 14th Street East.

A Whitefish Police Department officer stopped to check on an unconscious man on Baker Avenue who was found to be very drunk. The officer then located the man’s friends, who promised to take care of him.

A Copperwood Court resident requested a call regarding skateboarding ordinances in the city after neighbor youths kept putting a ramp in the middle of the cul de sac.

Several mouthy men were moved along to a motel after being reported yelling profanities in a Spokane Avenue parking lot.

A man was reported bleeding and having fallen and hit his head after being involved in a fight on East Second Street.

Disorderly guests at a U.S. 93 West business returned to their respective rooms after an officer responded.

An employee was suspected after a $150 cash bag went missing from a Baker Avenue business.

Someone broke into a Ridge Crest Drive home by prying a window out.

A Diane Road woman’s boyfriend was taken by a Columbia Falls Police Department officer to the hospital for a mental health evaluation before being jailed in the Flathead County Detention Center after they got into an argument.

An officer was unable to locate the source of a noise believed to be a gunshot reported by a passerby on Seventh Street West.

A hungry woman fled a Ninth Street West business with a pair of pilfered bags of chips.