Sir, can I ax you what you're doing?
Kalispell Police received a call about a man Wednesday wandering around East Oregon Street and Sixth Avenue East North carrying an ax. When officers spoke to the man, he told them that he had brought the ax to be pawned and had already done so by the time police arrived.
A woman called police Tuesday night after locking herself out of her apartment on First Avenue West. She was told police can’t unlock her apartment for her.
A housekeeper at a U.S. 93 South hotel found a glass pipe with drugs in it while cleaning a room Wednesday morning.
A man in a gray SUV stole a pellet gun and football gloves from a Hutton Ranch Road business Wednesday morning. The man, who had a bluetooth device in his ear, told loss prevention at the store that “she was bothering his police investigation.”
A juvenile probation and parole officer had his radio stolen out of his car on Wednesday. The vehicle window was smashed.
A woman reported a starving cat on First Street West. An officer found the cat to be friendly although a little thin.
A man called the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office from Trumble Creek Road near Columbia Falls on Tuesday morning saying that his neighbor had put down his horses and left the carcasses in the field. The man was concerned about wolves and other predators coming into the area.
A truck was broken into in Bigfork on Monday night and a backpack with a computer in it was stolen.
A man in a gray Mazda stole a backpack full of items from a U.S. 2 East business Tuesday afternoon.
A woman calling from East Evergreen Drive reported that her driver’s side window had been broken out sometime Monday night.
A woman reported road rage on U.S. 2 East after a man in a Ford truck almost sideswiped her. The truck pulled into a gas station and the woman followed and asked him if he knew he had almost hit her. The man responded with a slew of profanity capped by telling her he wished he had hit her. The woman told officers she was shaking and too scared to follow the man any further to get his license plate number.
A man called police after he went to his ex-wife’s house in Bigfork and was told to leave. Shortly after he left, he received a threatening phone call from his ex-wife’s boyfriend in prison.
A night clerk at a Montclair Drive hotel found a purse with what appeared to be drugs inside early Wednesday morning.
The roaming black bear was back at it in Whitefish again. This time he was spotted lumbering down Wisconsin Avenue on Tuesday around 6:30 p.m. He was later spotted on the patio area of a lodge nearby, according to the Whitefish Police Department.
A landlord called the Columbia Falls Police Department from a Seventh Street West residence saying that she had found marijuana in the apartment Tuesday afternoon. The landlord wanted to evict the tenants because of the drugs. A couple of hours later, the resident called to tell police that the landlord thought she saw marijuana, but it was just tea in a bag on the microwave.
An intoxicated man was harassing customers in front of a Ninth Street West business Tuesday night, asking customers for rides and money.
The Lake County Sheriff’s Office made an arrest on disorderly conduct charges on U.S. 93 just after midnight on Tuesday.