Woman sucked into vacuum scam

Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies took a report from a woman on Blacktail Road in Lakeside who said that a man sold her a vacuum for $700. The woman looked the vacuum up and found out that it was a 1990s model and that she had been ripped off. She wanted the case documented for police records.

Several guns were stolen from a trailer on Ashley Lake Road.

Someone from a Washington gun show called to report that two Middle Eastern men with loaded firearms were expected to travel to other gun shows in Montana.

A deputy told a woman that he could not escort her into a house where she was not wanted to collect a purse that she did not own. The woman’s friend had asked her to get the friend’s daughter’s purse.

A fight at a location off Montana 35 where a man and woman were screaming at each other had ended by the time a deputy arrived.

It was a tough week for mailboxes on Grace Road where a woman told Columbia Falls Police that her mailbox had been smashed for the second time in five days.

A woman on 12th Street West reported that her vehicle had been stolen and that the father of her child was the suspect.

A woman on Spokane Avenue reported to Whitefish Police that she received two calls from a telephone scammer with a foreign accent who tried to tell the woman that she would be carted off to jail if she did not pay alleged back taxes via the telephone. The woman gave up no information.

An officer was unable to locate a man walking down U.S. 93, who allegedly came into a fast-food restaurant wearing a reflective vest and screamed at workers.

A husband and wife were told to call Kalispell Police Department if they saw a suspicious person in an unspecified public park again. The couple reported that for the past three or four days an unkempt elderly man had been seen in the area, without pants. The man allegedly urinated in sight of the couple one day.

A landlord was caught trying to enter a renter’s residence on Sixth Avenue West North without prior notice. Deputies counseled the parties.

A woman went into a retailer on Hutton Ranch Road and paid $22 for her bill and was surprised to find out later that $817 had been drained from her bank account. A deputy took a report.

A man calling from Liberty Street said that he sold something via Facebook and the transaction angered someone who kept sending him threatening messages. The man was told to cease contact with the angry person.

A woman on Fifth Avenue West did not want to pursue charges after her ex-boyfriend broke her window in a verbal argument that briefly escalated.

A man was given a ride home after he was found sleeping in the middle of the street near the intersection of Sixth Avenue West and Third Street West.