'Stuck' teens spirit away a keg
A call to the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office reported a keg of beer missing from a delivery truck. The caller said he was delivering beverages to a private community on Big Mountain Road in Whitefish when two teenagers flagged him down. The teens said their car was stuck and asked for assistance. The driver went to get the community’s security guard, and returned to find the teenagers gone and a 5.16-gallon keg of beer missing from his delivery truck.
A man called to report his vehicle stolen from in front of his home in Kalispell last Wednesday night. The keys were left inside the vehicle, a gray Honda, and the man suspects his nephew took the car and wrecked it. Officers were able to locate the vehicle, which was recovered on Saturday after a slide-off on Columbia Falls Stage Road. Pawn slips were found in the car, and the man asked to speak to a deputy further about the matter.
A horse and a mule on Foys Canyon Road appeared malnourished to a caller, who wanted to report the owners to Animal Control. The caller said the mule was shivering, and she had not seen any food set out for them since last spring. Responding officers found remains of hay bales on the property, and did not see an immediate act of animal cruelty, though an officer said he would try to get in touch with the animals’ owners.
A plow was unable to properly do its job on First Street South West in Hungry Horse because a silver pickup truck was parked on the road. The truck was surrounded by four feet of snow and could not be moved. The owner had been warned on two other occasions, so the plow driver called a towing company. When the tow truck arrived, the truck owner said he did not want the vehicle, and encouraged the towing.
A mother reported a rogue St. Bernard dog attacked her son on Parklane Drive in Kalispell. The child was not hurt, but the dog was on the loose and headed toward a church. Responding officers located the dog’s owners and issued a verbal warning.
A home on Leisure Drive in Kalispell appeared to have been broken into. However, it turned out the front door had just blown open.
A horse on White Rabbit Lane apparently hadn’t been fed for several days and the water trough was frozen over. Officers scheduled a follow-up call for the next day.
Officers were unable to locate a driver on Montana 35 who had a beer in his hand while driving.
A man left a bar on U.S. 2 in Marion after having “a couple of beers.” Other bar patrons tried to stop him, and felt he was unsafe to drive. Officers found the man and “counseled him on drunk driving.”
A man wearing a tan hoodie and carrying a baseball bat was stumbling and “walking in and out of traffic” on Willow Glen Drive.
Two men got into a verbal altercation at a bar on Hungry Horse Boulevard, and the caller said it was “getting ugly.” One man pulled a gun and pointed it at the other man, then left on foot. Officers in the area began searching for the suspect.
A woman entered a man’s home without permission on Walker Meadow Road in Whitefish and began “throwing things and breaking things.” The woman had been the man’s girlfriend, and physically removed her before calling dispatch. The man said he was missing a gun and believed the ex-girlfriend had taken it, although he was not sure when. Officers arrived on the scene and arrested the woman.
A report stated a 12-year-old girl was receiving obscene calls on her cell phone from an unknown man. A dispatcher advised her to block the number and call back if that did not help.
A report to the Whitefish Police Department indicated a husky dog was “being obnoxious” and aggressive on private property on Columbia Avenue in Whitefish.