Avalanche, flooding danger looms

The Montana Department of Transportation designated a no-stopping zone between Essex and seven miles west of Marias Pass due to high avalanche danger.

Some minor flooding was reported on Little Bitterroot Creek next to Hubbart Dam Road west of Kalispell.

A Harmony Road woman called the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office and reported she had just been pushed out of her own house by her ex, who no longer lives there, but then said “never mind, it will only make it worse,” and hung up.

A livid Lore Lake Road woman who had just spent two hours plowing reported her neighbor had now plowed all his snow into her easement.

A red 2013 Chevrolet Suburban and a black 2013 Hyundai Elantra were stolen from a U.S. 2 East car rental business.

The owner of a U.S. 93 South facility blocked a woman in with his truck when the woman, who was behind on her rent, tried to pull her trailer out.

A guest at a Montclair Drive hotel left behind some drug paraphernalia after checking out.

A Gordon Avenue woman reported a woman told her daughter she was going to burn their house down.

A computer tower, laptop, screen, and pellets were stolen and a forklift vandalized at a Berne Road business.

A man was reported possibly sleeping behind the wheel on U.S. 2 West.

A man turned himself in on a $15,000 felony theft warrant.

An inmate at the county jail was injured.

A man was arrested after begging a pregnant woman not to call the Kalispell Police Department when he came around a Woodland Avenue corner too fast and slid into her vehicle.

A vehicle on Third Avenue East North belonging to an employee was extinguished and towed to a mechanic shop after the engine caught fire.

A criminal condiment caper was reported by a frustrated First Avenue East North woman who was unsure whether or not she wanted to pursue charges after someone covered her car in ketchup.

The manager of a U.S. 93 South motel reported the smell of drugs coming from one of the rooms. The motel manager decided to handle the issue in house.

A car was located on Ninth Avenue West after having been stolen from the parking lot of a U.S. 93 South bar earlier that evening.

An accidental dial led to a dispatcher being treated with someone’s rendition of “Do You Believe in Magic?”

A West Arizona Street woman reported someone came in through her back door and stole her medication.

A First Avenue East North resident complained that a neighbor was using a snowblower shortly after 5 a.m.

Several cars slid into a ditch on Seventh Avenue West North behind the fairgrounds.

Someone broke into a U.S. 93 South store by breaking a window.

A vehicle was burglarized on First Avenue East North.

The Whitefish Police Department was called twice on a very drunk man in a ski coat first reported offending a lot of people and refusing to leave a Central Avenue bar, where he was reportedly touching people and swearing. He was later reported bothering customers in front of the bar, from which he had been kicked out three times that night.

A woman was arrested for disorderly conduct after first being transported to a motel following a call to police in which she stated three men were breaking into her house. That incident was determined to be a landlord-tenant issue, as the men said she needed to be moved out.

A Shiloh Avenue woman reported a neighbor’s cat had been left outside again and that the feline kept coming to her door and scratching. She said she was previously accused of letting the cat into her apartment and had been told to contact police instead of the cat’s owners if it happened again.

A city worker contacted the Columbia Falls Police Department after an irate man swung shovels at him in an alley off Third Avenue East. The combative resident was told to take his complaint to the city manager.

A very upset Franlou Park Lane woman reported that her neighbors were blowing snow into her driveway. She said she had already confronted them once but they continued to do it and she wanted to “take the law into her own hands.”

A man reported slumped over the wheel of his vehicle on Nucleus Avenue was found not to be impaired, but to have recently had an argument with his wife.

Responders from the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office, Kalispell Police Department, Whitefish Police Department, Columbia Falls Police Department, Montana Highway Patrol,  West Valley Fire Department, Smith Valley Fire Department, Marion Fire Department and Three Rivers EMS were kept busy responding to 31 vehicular accidents between about 8 a.m. and 10:15 p.m. Monday.