Police respond to knife assault

The Kalispell Police Department responded to an assault on Maple Drive when someone called to report they were stabbed in the stomach by a pocket knife after trying to break up a fight between their little brother and a homeless man.

A man calling from a business on Hutton Ranch Road called to report four to five men wearing dark clothes, baseball caps and shaved heads threatened to beat him up,  rushed at him menacingly and were saying racial slurs to a manager.

A motel guest on U.S. 2 reported that $571 was stolen from their room while they were out.

Neighborly mischief was suspected by a woman on Eighth Avenue East who reported that while she was at work someone came onto her property and cut branches off her willow tree.

A report was made that a 13-year-old girl refused to return to school after receiving a sexually harassing, degrading and insulting letter from a classmate.

Someone on Fifth Avenue West called to report a male subject calling and threatening them, stating he was an officer, then a lawyer and threatened to have them arrested.

An employee of a Third Avenue East North business reported a man smoking a cigarette was loitering, asking for money and scaring off customers.

People on Hutton Ranch Road were reported throwing beer bottles and almost hit a car.

Columbia Falls Police Department received a report from Nucleus Avenue of a man in his late 20s scoping out cars in a parking lot.

Someone from Ninth Street West called to report a driver and his passenger — a “cranky old man” — were parked in a handicapped parking spot without a handicap placard or plate after confronting them.

A woman on Baker Avenue called the Whitefish Police Department to report that a woman was stalking her and threw a snowball containing rocks at her window, cracking it.

Two males were reported stealing items from a candy aisle at a business on U.S. 93.