Barking up the wrong phone line
Despite a West Seventh Street man’s failure to understand the purpose of 911 and non-emergency numbers, a Whitefish Police Department officer responded to the area after the man complained of a barking dog. After calling 911 to report his annoyance, the man was told how to call the non-emergency line, but that didn’t stop him from calling 911 again just 12 minutes later, at which point he was again advised of the proper number to call and told that an officer had already responded and left behind a warning for the dog owner.
A car-surfing student was reported on Park Avenue.
Several burglaries at Bigfork businesses were reported to the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office Wednesday morning. The burglaries occurred at properties on Village Lane, Crestview Drive and Montana 83, with cash drawers missing from at least two businesses.
A student brought a vial of liquid into a West Evergreen Drive school that smelled like cough syrup. A school employee reported the substance along with their belief that it might be alcohol or some kind of drug.
A report of a “huge dog” that “looks like a wolf” and was acting vicious turned up a German shepherd, still wearing a shock collar, on Rusty Trail. It was impounded and taken to the animal shelter.
A woman was arrested for partner or family member assault after a fight on Holt Drive in Bigfork. Both she and the man with whom she was fighting had drank “a beer or two.”
A local resident planning to testify against a person in court found a note in his mailbox telling him not to show up.
A deputy was unable to find a camper reported traveling down Airport Road with stuff falling out of the back.
A contractor’s tools were stolen from a house under construction on Whispering Meadows Trail.
A home was ransacked and a “bunch of items” stolen on Lower Lost Prairie Road.
A hypodermic needle was found sitting on top of a U.S. 2 East snow bank.
A man was arrested on a warrant on South Main Street.
A very drunk elderly woman wearing blue and white rags on her head was reported after she kept falling down on West Wyoming Street, eventually crawling across the road. A Kalispell Police Department officer gave the wobbly woman a ride home and encouraged her not to leave until she sobered up.
A person called police after loaning a knife to a man on U.S. 93 South who then used it to cut his own throat, then setting it down and going inside a nearby hotel, bleeding badly.
A manic man jumped out of his vehicle and confronted a motorist after brake-checking that motorist on West Washington Street.
A woman slipped and fell on Woodland Park Drive while trying to take things into her house, breaking at least one bone in a compound fracture.
A duck-hating driver was reported for purposely driving over a group of the quacking fowl at Woodland Park.
Someone smashed the window of a truck on East Montana Street and stole a range finder and two pair of binoculars.
Drug paraphernalia was found inside a Seventh Avenue West rental unit and subsequently destroyed.
An annoyed 12th Avenue West apartment-dweller contacted the Columbia Falls Police Department to report her neighbor was yelling, cursing and playing loud music, and was possibly drunk, an ongoing problem. A responding officer reported that the music was not loud but the man was drunk and he was advised him to keep it down.
A person was arrested during a traffic stop on Railroad Street.