Potentially violent situation defused

A Flathead County Sheriff’s Office deputy responded to an East Reserve Drive property after a woman reported a man and woman who were temporarily living in her shed were screaming at one another. The man, who had threatened to kill himself, eventually barricaded himself in the shed, where he had access to a gun. The situation was eventually defused without incident, with one person transported to the emergency room for evaluation.

A First Avenue West North woman in Hungry Horse reported her 53-year-old ex-girlfriend was trying to beat her up. Both women were drunk. When a deputy responded, he said the woman was more concerned with where she should go on vacation than the argument they had, and a pair of men at the residence denied anything physical had happened and said the woman yells all the time.

A Montana 35 man was cited for disorderly conduct after it was determined he had no emergency following a call to 911 in which he reported that a meth dealer had taken off with his girlfriend.

A Springwood Lane man was educated on the county dog ordinances after his Labrador got out of its electric fence and charged at his neighbor. He agreed to have the fence repaired.

A Trails End Drive man reported someone had been coming onto his property, letting his dog out of his house, then calling it in as a dog at large.

A report of a man in a van disposing of 30-40 potted marijuana stems near Columbia Falls was turned over to the Northwest Drug Task Force.

A sick-of-it somebody on Sunnybrooke Lane in Somers reported their nasty neighbor was letting garbage in white bags pile up in the yard.

A pair of suspicious teenagers were reported walking around with a flashlight and talking loud at 2 a.m. on Fox Hill Drive.

A Lakeside resident shared concerns about a man who was posting things on Facebook about killing people.

A Kalispell Police Department officer responded to the parking lot of a Burns Way health-care clinic after a woman called the hospital dispatch line and said her father was inside getting an intravenous injection and if they didn’t let her in, she would kick the door down. After the officer made contact with building personnel, the issue was resolved.

A woman in a U.S. 93 South store was allowed to use the store’s phone, and when she hung up asked a nearby person for five dollars. When the person refused she said “I guess I will just drive away in that stolen car,” and left in the vehicle.

Four men and a woman reported for fighting outside an Airport Road bar had separated into two groups and driven away in different directions by the time an officer responded.

A Fly Way man reported someone broke into his truck, taking a house key and a key to another vehicle and leaving behind a cigarette burn on the driver’s seat.

A woman jumped into the back seat of a vehicle and fled from a U.S. 93 North store after taking a saw and “all kinds of blades.”

A frustrated Fourth Avenue West man reported high school students trespassing across his property.

An officer was unable to locate a young man reported lying in the grass along U.S. 93 North.

A welfare check on a vehicle on Fifth Street East turned up a couple napping in a vehicle.

A rock wall on Woodland Avenue was vandalized.

A very drunk woman was given a citation by a Whitefish Police Department officer after her car was found high-centered on Seventh Street West. The woman claimed her boyfriend was driving. The car was towed out and turned over to a sober driver.

A burglary alarm at a Fairway Drive home turned out to have been triggered by a stray golf ball.

A very drunk man at a Baker Avenue bar reported a woman’s boyfriend threatened to kill him.

A possible meth maker was reported to the Columbia Falls Police Department after buying Sudafed and taking some aluminum foil out of a roll at a Ninth Street West business.

A man in a hoodie reported acting suspiciously in a park was found to be playing with his 3-year-old son and not doing anything suspicious at all.

Several youths were reported smoking cigarettes under a 12th Street West man’s carport.