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LAW ROUDUP: Where's dat wascally wabbit?

| December 2, 2015 6:55 PM

Columbia Falls Police were able to reunite a woman and her rabbit after neighbors reported that the woman was periodically exiting her home on 10th Avenue West and screaming at people. Neighbors could hear the woman screaming and throwing things when she went back inside. When police found out that the woman was searching for a bunny, they helped her locate it.


Whitefish Police responded after an emergency room worker called to report that two men who admitted to using meth were being disruptive at the hospital by yelling. One of the men kept falling down and the other said that one of the two had broken a needle off in his arm. A doctor thought the staff needed backup from officers.


Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies responded after a woman on South Cedar Drive found that her shed door was wide open and there were footprints in the snow. Law enforcement found that the footprints were caused by dogs and deer and that nothing had been taken.

A man on Whitefish Stage Road said that he receives prescription drugs via the mail and that when he came home, he found his mailbox open. It was the scheduled delivery date for his prescription.

A woman on Tamarack Lane asked for guidance after she kept receiving threatening messages from the wife of a man who had impregnated her. The woman wanted to sever all ties with the man after she found out he was married, but the wife allegedly kept threatening her. The woman was told to block the wife’s phone calls and block her on social media.

Two men in a verbal dispute about firewood on Van Sant Road were counseled by a deputy.

A man on Montana 209 near Bigfork found what was believed to have been stolen property from a vending machine. The call was transferred to Lake County.

A man on U.S. 2 told an officer that he had lightly spanked his dog so it would not run away again after someone complained that the man was beating his dog.


Kalispell Police Department responded to Seventh Avenue East, where a woman said that a person had run a vehicle into her yard and hit a tree. The driver left the scene, and the woman could find little evidence for officers to collect, but she wanted to report the hit-and-run.

An officer disposed of blankets with fecal matter on them after someone called about a suspicious red bag that had been in the parking lot behind a downtown restaurant.

An officer was unable to locate a man who was reported as walking down West Idaho Street with a shotgun or a rifle.