Dive team goes in after sunken vehicle

The Somers-Lakeside Fire Department and eventually a dive team were dispatched to a Lower Valley Road boat launch after a vehicle was reported fully submerged approximately 30 feet from shore.

The Kalispell Police Department received a pair of calls about mischief-makers in the area of Fifth Avenue West, first for people throwing eggs at passing vehicles and second for a group of boys hanging outside an apartment who were heard hitting something.

An East Oregon Street dog owner said someone cut off a dog’s electric collar and cut the wire of the underground electric dog fence in three places.

A pair of young men fled from a North Meridian Road business after trying to steal a cart full of merchandise but left their ill-gotten gains behind the building.

A pair of “slightly disorderly” men were counseled regarding a disagreement over one dumping his trash in the other’s garbage cans on Eighth Avenue West North.

A man reported another man verbally assaulted his wife and spit on their car because they confronted him about riding on the road instead of a bicycle path.

A report of someone walking behind the fenceline of an East Oregon Street property turned out not to be a person but “local wildlife.”

A man was arrested for contempt of court after failing a mandated breath-alcohol test.

An 11th Street West resident with a “booming” radio was advised to keep it down.

A man was arrested for drunk driving during a traffic stop on Glenwood Drive.

Regrets relating to a relative led to a call to the Whitefish Police Department after a man reported having loaned money and a gun to a relative, whom he confronted earlier that day about repaying the loan and returning the firearm. The relative responded by threatening to come to the man’s house and “blow his [expletive] head off.” An officer reclaimed the firearm and later returned it to its owner.

Several people enjoying City Beach at nearly midnight were advised of beach hours and sent on their way.

An officer was unable to locate a dog reported eating a deer carcass in a ditch on Houston Drive.

Columbia Falls Police Department officers responded twice to a 12th Avenue West building where a man was frightening his neighbors, first coming out of his residence screaming and pounding on the windows of a woman’s car, blaming the two women inside for trying to hit his dog while it was on a leash. An officer reported at that time that the man was too drunk to talk to and was told to keep his dog off the sidewalk, leave the other people alone and sober up. About 11 hours later, he was reported banging on the walls of one of the women’s residences, next door to his own.

A very drunk woman was counseled after she was reported exposing herself and urinating on the asphalt in the drive-through of a Ninth Street West fast-food restaurant.

Someone knocked over a stop sign and a street sign on South Meadow Lake Boulevard.

The Bigfork Fire Department responded to Sunset Lane Sunday afternoon for a water rescue call. By the time an ambulance arrived, a kayaker who had ended up out of his boat had already climbed on shore and was only brought into the ambulance to warm up.