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Stolen saddle adds insult to injury

| March 24, 2014 10:00 PM

A woman calling the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office from Bowdish Road near Whitefish said her son was riding a horse when it got tangled up in a fence, injuring her son. She rushed him to an emergency room, and when she returned she found that the horse’s saddle had been stolen.

A housekeeper at a hotel on Montclair Drive discovered drugs and paraphernalia that were left behind in a room.

There was a report of two intoxicated men wielding firearms in an unsafe and threatening way at a Tamarack Lane residence.

A man called from McMannamy Draw requesting assistance with getting rid of a neighbor’s geese that keep returning to his house.

A man called from a location on Montana 35 in Evergreen saying that people were banging on his door and threatening him, even though he did not know who the people were.

A man calling from Trails End Drive said his teenage daughter came home and started calling him names and threatened to kill him. The man said he wanted the girl to move out, and she gathered belongings and left on her own.

A man calling from Willow Glen Drive said his friend took his expensive sunglasses. The caller said he thought the sunglasses would be returned but his friend notified him that he had sold the sunglasses to a third party.

Early Monday, at about 1:50 a.m., BNSF asked for assistance in getting an intoxicated man off of a train that was arriving at the Whitefish train depot.

 

Kalispell Police got a report Saturday about an intoxicated woman screaming at customers in a First Avenue West bar. The woman was arrested soon after.

A man was southbound on U.S. 2 when the truck in front of him stopped, and the driver got out and threatened to beat up the reporting party.

Sunday morning, a woman calling from Airport Road said she caught someone rummaging through her vehicle and a neighbor’s vehicle.

After getting a report about a man waving a knife around and talking to himself outside of a hotel on U.S. 93 South, officers arrested the man on a felony theft charge.

There was a report of an office and security system being vandalized on Fifth Avenue East.

A vehicle was broken into on Fifth Avenue East.

Groceries and a cooler were reported stolen from a vehicle on Third Avenue West.

There was a report of a man being “blue and cold” on the back deck of a business on U.S. 2 West. An off-duty police officer administered CPR and the man was successfully revived.

Monday, a guard caught a woman bringing a .40-caliber pistol into the federal office building on Corporate Drive. The guard took possession of the handgun and the woman was subsequently interviewed by police.

Two officers forced their way into an apartment on 10th Avenue West in an effort to assist a man who had been calling for help with mental health issues.

A woman calling from Fourth Street West said her home was broken into, the perpetrator left muddy foot prints all over the house, and $700 in cash was missing from her bedroom.

 A woman calling Whitefish Police from East Third Street Sunday said that her boyfriend was attacked by her dog.

Columbia Falls Police got a report Sunday regarding an unattended truck that apparently rolled across Third Avenue West, causing damage to a resident’s yard and trees.