Locks don't deter determined partiers

A man called the Kalispell Police Department on Sunday to report that he locks his building on First Avenue West North on a regular basis, but it appears people have been partying in it in his absence, because “there is always a lot of trash and beer bottles left behind.”

Officers had to take keys from a very intoxicated man trying to enter his vehicle on First Avenue West on Saturday. 

A woman called to report a man in his 50s who had followed her daughter Friday.

Officers checked on a boy who appeared to be about 4 years old walking toward the playground with an “extremely intoxicated” man and woman Saturday. 

An argument between neighbors turned physical on Third Avenue East and a child called 911 saying that someone was trying to kill her mom and dad. 

A man was cited outside a business on First Avenue East North for harassing customers in the parking lot. 

Two young men, about 18 or 19 years old, stole beer from a location on West Idaho Street by grabbing the booze and running out the door and down the street. 

Theft was reported Sunday at a business on First Avenue East North when a man grabbed a 24-ounce can of alcohol and went into the bathroom. The same man had stolen a deli sandwich the night before. The suspect was cited for shoplifting. 

Two intoxicated men were asked to leave an event on Sunday for causing problems with vendors and staring at people and making them uneasy. They didn’t make any purchases but instead told a vendor that “a big storm was coming and they needed to cover.” 

A panhandler was told to move on Sunday morning from a location on First Avenue East North. 

Three men held down a shoplifting suspect Saturday on Ninth Street West until the Columbia Falls Police Department arrived. 

An SUV collided with a telephone pole Sunday on Ninth Street West. The driver said he wasn’t injured. 

Whitefish Police responded to a pickup on fire on U.S. 93 South on Saturday. No one was injured. 

A flag was stolen from a residence on Geddes Avenue. 

An aggravated woman called from Central Avenue to report another woman putting boxes into her trash bins. Near the end of the phone call, the reporting party said she’d “probably just call the woman herself and that there wasn’t anything law enforcement could do about it anyway.”

A concerned girlfriend said her boyfriend called her from Iowa Avenue and said he fell going up the stairs and thought he had a broken hand.