Chopper helps find missing child

Two Bear Air helped the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office locate a missing 4-year-old boy in the Trap Road area Friday afternoon.

The boy’s mother reported he had been missing for 15 minutes and she had searched her entire home. At that point the pilot of the Two Bear Air helicopter reported he happened to be in the area and began searching, eventually locating the boy in a field and hovering over him until the mother arrived at the scene and was reunited with her son.

A deputy responded to the Blankenship Bridge area along with North Valley Search and Rescue personnel after receiving a report of a man who had been camping and became surrounded by water. He was safe but needed some help getting out.

A beaten Bigfork woman on Moondance Trail called to say her 52-year-old boyfriend had slammed her head into a cabinet and into the floor, leaving her bleeding, and that she had locked herself in the bathroom. Her boyfriend could be heard in the background crying and apologizing.

A person reported receiving a suspicious text message sent from an email address stating, “I’m not going to say anything about the arsonist.”

A hospital nurse reported a man showed up in the emergency room after shooting himself in the finger on Patrick Creek Road.

An El Rancho Road resident complained about an ongoing issue with a man who walks around the area naked.

Kalispell Police Department officers responded to a pedestrian underpass after a man shot himself early Friday morning. A call initially came in to 911 from his girlfriend, who said he had just stolen her car after asking her to kill him. The 24-year-old man was found in the tunnel, having lost a lot of blood. Kalispell Fire Department personnel also responded to the scene.

A miffed man contacted police and reported a man had just tried to run over him and was continuing to trespass on a U.S. 93 South property. The man said he would handle the situation on his own but was “strongly advised against it.” When the man returned, he again said he would take matters into his own hands and was again advised against it. After a third report in which he said if the man walked through his front door he was going to “smoke him,” an officer finally contacted the alleged suspect and determined the reports were unfounded.

A man was sent on his way after standing in the parking lot of an Airport Road bar, yelling and changing clothes. He had been in the bar three times but had not had anything to drink, and had entered the bar the day before and said he has a brain disorder.

A man was reported walking around a U.S. 2 West parking lot yelling obscenities at customers of a coffee kiosk.

A cabbie contacted the Whitefish Police Department to report an eight-man brawl outside a Central Avenue bar with one man cornered, but the fight had broken up by the time an officer arrived.

A group of boys were reported smoking marijuana under a Colorado Avenue porch.

A crossing guard at a Fourth Avenue West school requested a Columbia Falls Police Department officer come to the school and watch the belligerent motorists who drive by.

A Nucleus Avenue bartender was reported for being drunk.