LAW ROUNDUP: Caller 'just says no' to drugs
What could have been a lucky day for a pot user instead ended with disposal of marijuana by a Columbia Falls Police officer. A person discovered a baggie of weed at a business on Nucleus Avenue and asked that police respond for proper safe-keeping.
A woman on First Avenue East asked for medical first responders to examine a possible broken ankle. The woman said she had been walking in the street a day earlier and tripped over the base of a roadway sign that had been knocked over. The base of the sign was still there but not visible. It was unclear why the woman did not call for medical assistance at the time of the accident.
A woman slid off the roadway and took down a mailbox on Diane Road. Her tire also deflated in the crash.
A woman on Flathead Avenue called to ask if she or her husband had left their cellphone at the Whitefish Police Department. The woman said the pair had a little too much to drink the night before and ended up in a holding cell. She thought a phone and some follow-up paperwork might have been left at the station.
A blond fiddle with a plug-in and black carrying case were lost on Spokane Avenue.
A man on Lupine Drive reported to Kalispell Police that his 19-year-old ex-girlfriend threatened to send people to his mother’s home if he did not give her $1,000. The man said the woman blamed him for damage to her vehicle. It was unclear what the “people” were going to do to the man to get the money. An officer found that one of the parties was wanted on a warrant for stalking.
An officer helped a woman who was found wandering along Second Avenue West with a bottle of wine in hand. The woman needed help getting upstairs.
A man on Seventh Avenue West was found stumbling around in the street with his pants falling down. He told one passer-by that he had been beaten up. After an interview an officer determined the young man had gotten into a fight with his mother about a bunch of empty pill bottles. The man was taken to the hospital.
A person on U.S. 93 reported that a drunken man had stabbed the tire of a vehicle. There were witnesses to the alleged crime.
An officer asked people having a party to keep it down after a woman on 11th Street East reported that she could hear someone banging around in a garage. The woman would not give her name and said she called because “the governor said on the news to keep an eye on these strange happenings.”
A man was seen stumbling down Glenwood Drive in a stocking cap, carrying a backpack and a plastic bag. The man was seen urinating. An officer gave him a ride.