Man stops woman from stealing truck

A man’s roommate contacted the Kalispell Police Department on behalf of the roommate when a woman left the roommate’s three-week-old son in the care of her ex-boyfriend. The roommate asked the man to call because he was too emotional, believing his child was in danger due to his belief that the man, with whom his child was left with, was a child molester.

A quick-thinking man kept his pickup truck from being stolen on Third Avenue East North when he left his vehicle running and stepped away to talk to someone, then heard his vehicle moving and ran back, grabbing a woman out of his truck who was trying to drive it away. She was arrested and incarcerated in the county jail.

A man reported smoking a cigarette and carrying a pink drink while looking into vehicles in a Fourth Avenue West parking lot was found to be waiting for a friend and looking for his own vehicle, and was not drunk.

Someone walked onto a U.S. 92 South property, popped the hood of a vehicle and cut out the battery, reportedly causing $5,000 in damage.

Someone threw a rock through the dining room window of an Eighth Street West home.

A man was reported for threatening to rape a woman on Third Avenue West.

An observant citizen contacted the Whitefish Police Department after seeing people driving on the train tracks, appearing to also be setting up tents for camping. The vehicle was located and secured and the people were sent on their way.

A man called for help from an officer after doing some work for a woman in exchange for two personal watercraft and a trailer, but was having problems getting the paperwork for the vehicles from the woman.

A student and parent were brought into the office of an East Second Street school administrator’s office after the student brought alcohol to school.

A man contacted the Columbia Falls Police Department after having left his vehicle at a Ninth Street West home — with the tenant’s permission — after a party, then returned the next day and found the keys missing and all the windows smashed out.

A woman who reported her husband had just punched her in the face at their Fourth Avenue West home found herself being the one arrested for partner or family member assault.

A person who seemed lost and “out of it” and may have “gone to the bathroom” in their pants was reported walking around a playground area on Fourth Avenue West.