Fireworks call leads to more serious complaint: death threat

 Tempers flared during Fourth of July festivities, keeping area police departments busy with fireworks-related disturbances. 

Perhaps the most significant call related to fireworks was from a scared woman on Sunnyside Drive who told the Kalispell Police Department that a man with a gun was threatening to kill her husband over a 911 call he had made earlier complaining about possible fireworks within the city limits.

A highly intoxicated woman — who was not wearing pants — was discovered slumped over her steering wheel at a business on East Idaho Street and Second Avenue East North. She had earlier been seen swerving across oncoming traffic in the parking lot.

Two hungry women were counseled by Whitefish Police Department after they drove away in a golf cart to get pizza before returning it to a business on Bay Point Drive.

A disconcerted father on Somers Avenue reported his 22-year-old son threatened him by picking up a hammer and asking him how “he wanted to die,” then threatened to kill him if he called the police. The son also allegedly used hatchets and hammers to make holes in the house. The menacing son has also reportedly made threats to his mother. 

A person on East Fourth Street reported an injured male on the south side of the Whitefish River Bridge. The escaped assailant was described as a man wearing a black beanie, black T-shirt and ear gauges and was with a female who had a face tattoo.

Owners of a Doberman that reportedly attacked a small dog ran out of a park after being confronted by the small dog’s owners.

A fight erupted between five people on Baker Avenue before breaking up with some people leaving in a van.

Someone on Baker Avenue couldn’t get to the hospital when two vehicles were reportedly blocking the road.

Four black sweatshirt-clad teens engaged in a display of mischief by throwing fireworks at passing vehicles on U.S. 93 before walking into a lodge.

Extra patrol was requested from a Parkhill Drive resident who reported potential fireworks violations, stating they wanted to go to bed and didn’t want to have to call later that night.

Columbia Falls Police Department counseled juveniles who were picking flowers on Fran Lou Park Lane.

A shocked passerby called to report a man punched his dog in the face then shoved it in the back of his Chevy truck that had a Buffalo Bill sticker in the back window.