'Stalker' turns out just to have bad timing

A case of coincidence led to a report of stalking called in to the Whitefish Police Department. A woman made the report after seeing a man in a Jeep at a pharmacy while she was inside, then in the parking lot, then when she was picking up her son from school and later on her street when she went for a walk, at which point she took a picture of him and his license plate and told him to stop following her.

It was later determined that the man was a sales rep for the cable company whose job it is to contact non-subscribers, forcing him to travel around the city. He said all of her sightings of him were a coincidence related to his job, and that he had been inside the pharmacy to get his blood pressure checked.

A man contacted the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office to report his 19-year-old son had been bitten by a pit bull at a Whitefish Stage Road home he is paying for, but where his ex-wife is allowing people to stay with their dogs. He reported his son had sustained puncture wounds and bruising last week and said he was concerned because no report was made when it happened. He asked that the dogs be kicked out of the house, but was told it was a civil issue.

A man was arrested on a warrant and cited for having false license plates, no insurance and a suspended driver’s license after a deputy saw him back into a Montana 35 parking lot at a high speed, make a 180-degree turn — nearly losing control — then overcorrect into the oncoming lane of traffic. He had apparently just been in an argument with his girlfriend.

A Bigfork man on Echo Chalet Drive reported a death threat was posted at his neighbor’s house and that he had also had recent issues with people threatening his life. He was advised how to apply for a restraining order.

Deputies searched for and eventually located and arrested a man after he threatened a woman at a South Cedar Drive property, saying he would burn down her house with her children inside if she called the police.

A man reported another man hit him in the face before hitting his truck then driving away from the U.S. 2 East parking lot where the altercation took place.

An electric utility company employee was bitten by a dog at a Spring Creek Road home in Somers.

A Kalispell Police Department officer helped a Sixth Street West child recover a ball after the child’s parent reported the neighbor was antagonizing the parent’s dogs and encouraging them to fight, then refusing to give the ball back when the parent’s children hit it into his yard.

A woman was taken to the hospital after being assaulted by a man who shoved a door in her face and pushed her in a tub after an argument over him not following the rules of the house at the Appleway Drive property.

A man was reported “disturbing the peace” by “running a vibrating machine” in a Liberty Street apartment.

A Second Avenue West resident contacted the Columbia Falls Police Department after his neighbor left his car in gear and it rolled into the resident’s fence.