Phone woes: tub drop and 'FBI lock'

Columbia Falls Police were called Thursday morning when a woman could hear her neighbor screaming, cussing and slamming things around. When police arrived at his apartment, he informed them that he was just upset because he had dropped his cellphone in the bathtub.

A man called the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday morning to report something “criminal” on his phone. He was being very secretive, saying he wanted to talk to an officer in person instead of blurting it out over the phone in public. He did say that he believed there was an “FBI lock” on his phone.

A U.S. 2 East business was burglarized sometime Wednesday night. Cash and beer were stolen.

A lock was picked on a U.S. 2 East storage unit and a gun, two guitars and a flat-screen TV were among items reported stolen.

Another storage unit was broken into on South Complex Drive.

Someone called from a Whitefish animal hospital saying that a dog there had been scratched by a bat and the bat needed to be picked up for rabies testing.

A woman called Kalispell Police to say that last week, the lock on her house was full of water and on Thursday there was a toothpick stuck in it.

A woman said that when she walked out of the mall, a man approached her and asked her if she wanted to buy a container of Tide pods.

A caller reported hearing two or three people yelling loudly on Fifth Avenue East on Thursday evening. It turned out they were yelling at a football game.