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Porn is not a police problem

| September 25, 2014 9:00 PM

A man called the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday to report an Internet scam that had frozen his computer. The man was on a pornographic website when a pop-up froze the screen. He was told to contact a computer repair business to help him with his computer issues.

A concerned citizen called police from Helena Flats Road because she was upset her neighbors found a stray chocolate Lab and were keeping it instead of trying to find the owner.

A Whitefish woman said her neighbor’s son shot a cat with an arrow on Tuesday.

Tools were stolen from a work site on Two Bear Trail and were found at a pawn shop.

A teacher had $300 stolen from her wallet in her classroom.

A Kalispell woman called from a U.S. 93 location upset because her neighbor is feeding skunks, and multiple dogs in the neighborhood have gotten sprayed.

A woman on Solberg Drive in Kalispell reported her neighbor, whom she has a restraining order against, for honking his horn and shooting pellets at her fence. The woman said the restraining order states the man is not to “annoy her,” and he was annoying her again.

A man said his mother hired a financial adviser named “Rick” and heard that “Rick” was doing illegal things and was worried that he may have ripped off his mother. “Rick” was out of town.

A Columbia Falls man said he gave a bear hide and money to a local trading post in November 2013 to make a rug, and the trading post called him to let him know the rug was ready, but when he goes to pick it up, there’s never anyone there.

A Kalispell woman called from White Rabbit Lane saying that her neighbor had “tapped into her phone line” and was now charging things to her phone bill. The woman also believed that the neighbor had access to her phone line and was able to make calls off it, as well as listen in to her calls.

Whitefish Police chased a small black bear out of a residential area on Wednesday morning.

A man and woman were seen arguing on Fourth Street. The woman pulled out her bear spray and sprayed the man in the face.

A man was reported for trying to gain entry to an East Second Street home, and was reportedly stumbling around the area.

Columbia Falls Police received a report of stolen medical marijuana plants from 12th Avenue West on Wednesday.

An intoxicated man was camped out underneath a tree on Railroad Street.

A landlord called from a Martha Road residence saying that her tenant had moved out 10 days ago and left their cat behind.

A man called to say there were a couple of kids in the alley behind Ninth Street West “groping and kissing.” He wanted an officer to do a drive-through, saying the kids would probably scatter when they saw the officer.

Kalispell Police received a report of a woman whose car had broken down on Sunset Boulevard. The caller said it looked like the woman was “throwing a fit.”

A rooster was seen wandering in an East Washington Street yard.

A woman was cited for stealing from a Hutton Ranch Road business Wednesday.

Another woman was ticketed for stealing, this time from a North Main Street business. The woman had apparently been giving store employees trouble for a while by purchasing a lot of stuff and then bringing it back and becoming belligerent with store clerks.

And yet another woman was cited for stealing after walking out of a Third Avenue East North business with a tall beer. She was also cited for minor in possession.

A drunk couple called police from East Idaho Street during an argument on Wednesday. The man said his girlfriend was going to have a man pick her up and the man is a drug dealer. The woman could at first be heard crying in the background, and later laughing. The caller didn’t make much sense, according to dispatch.