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Egger forgets to cover his tracks

by Daily Inter Lake
| December 21, 2015 9:00 PM

Flathead County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report that a resident’s home had been “egged again.” The caller said he cracked the case because foot tracks in the snow led directly to a neighbor’s house. The neighbor told sheriff’s deputies that it must have been his sons and vowed to get to the bottom of the situation.

Four horses were reported running loose on a road near Bigfork.

Someone left a destroyed mailbox in a Kalispell resident’s front yard. The caller did not know if it was a message or simply a dump site. Sheriff’s deputies found several more damaged mailboxes in the surrounding neighborhood.

Several guns and rounds of ammunition were stolen from a lake cabin near Somers.

A woman called the Sheriff’s Office to report her husband had been holding her against her will using “psych games.” The caller described the man as a survivalist who carries many weapons.

A man turned in a wallet he found near West Reserve Drive. The owner was able to claim the wallet a few hours later.

A BNSF police officer called the Sheriff’s Office to report two men smoking marijuana on a train en route to Whitefish.

Someone called to report a suspicious-looking vehicle parked outside a Kalispell business. Minutes later, another car drove into the parking lot and dropped the driver off, who then left peacefully.

A man called the Sheriff’s Office after he came home and saw a flashlight beam inside the house. When he entered the home, no one was inside but the back door was unlocked and a screen was missing from one of the windows.


After dropping a female escort off at the airport to fly back to San Fransisco, a man asked Whitefish Police to check on his residence to make sure she hadn’t returned. The pair allegedly had a verbal dispute at his home when she demanded money and he believed she would return to collect despite his efforts to fly her away.

An ATV was reported pulling children on a sled through town.

A driver called police about someone driving recklessly in a residential area.

Whitefish police caught a man driving a vehicle with the wrong license plates.


A resident called Columbia Falls Police to report a suspicious-looking vehicle driving around the neighborhood. Police found the driver was just waiting to give someone a ride.

A woman, over seven months pregnant, called police when her roommate gave her 24 hours to vacate the apartment for no apparent reason.


Flathead County Search and Rescue responded after a boater near Bigfork reported his watercraft was disabled.