Psychic: Icy with a chance of drowning

Flathead Sheriff’s deputies were unable to reach a self-described “police psychic” who called from Cincinnati, Ohio to leave a message about a couple who might be in danger. The man had never visited Northwest Montana, but was concerned because he had a vision of a man and a woman floating down a river in the Flathead National Forest. He envisioned the two hitting some rapids and falling out of a raft. The man had to carry the woman out of the woods in the vision. The man said the “closest name” he had referencing anything he saw in the dream was “Columbia Falls.” The dispatcher noted that is sounded like the visionary might have imbibed some intoxicating substances prior to calling.

A debit card left in a car’s cup holder proved to be too much temptation for a thief who broke in the passenger side window of a vehicle that was parked overnight at a Bigfork church. The woman’s bank card and her college ID were taken.

Children were frightened after a man living in a trailer off Bear Trail in Whitefish shot into the air to scare the youngsters. The man called dispatch and reported that he shot an unloaded charge into the air after four or five youths allegedly grabbed icicles off of the side of his motor home. A mother of one of the children was upset by the man’s reaction to the children’s play, which she claimed was in her family’s “huge” backyard. An officer was dispatched.

A man showed up to an rental business in Kalispell in a van with Idaho license plates, and promptly got sick in a bathroom. The man went outside, then returned and asked to rent a tent that he could use at a campground for two months. A worker at the shop thought the behavior was suspicious.

A landlord was arrested for assault with a weapon after he allegedly threatened to Tase his tenants living off Valley Drive in Kalispell.

A woman on Henry Lane was able to get a pawn shop to put a hold on her wedding ring after she discovered that the jewelry had been pawned without her permission. The woman discovered the ring was missing in September and had a hunch her daughter might have stolen it. The woman did not know if she wanted to press charges, because she wanted to give her daughter a chance to own up to the theft.

A man at a bar on Montana 35 reported that he had been drinking and smoking with a man who said that he wanted to be a serial killer. Though the man was drunk, the reporting party was concerned because there were nine specific people on the hypothetical hit list. The caller did not know the drunken rambler’s name, but gave law enforcement a description of the man that included a Mohawk hairdo, and promised to keep an eye on him for any signs of homicidal tendencies that might develop over the course of the evening.

A woman reported a gooey situation to the Whitefish Police Department after someone rang her doorbell on Great Northern Drive at 9 p.m. at night and left a broken egg on her porch. Nearby mailboxes had also apparently fallen victim to the sticky vandalism.

A man called to ask if an officer might have kept his driver license after he was pulled over on U.S. 93 while driving his employer’s Range Rover. The officers on duty could not immediately recall the case.

Officers were unable to locate a man on Central Avenue who was allegedly wearing a camouflage snowboard helmet, yelling at people and vomiting in public.

Columbia Falls Police fielded a call where a man had lost his Canadian passport somewhere along Nucleus Avenue.

Getting stuck in a snow berm off Montana 56 was the least of a driver’s worries after Lincoln County Sheriff’s office took the driver into custody for an aggravated DUI.

Kalispell Police could find no evidence anyone had been assaulted or injured after a woman called and said that someone else told her to report a stabbing at a location off U.S. 93. The woman said she had just met the person who told her to call in and did not have more information. Officers noted the woman seemed rather disinterested in helping them discern what might have happened. A few minutes later a person showed up at the emergency room, stabbed. An officer went to the hospital, but found the man had left.

A officer told a man lying in a field off Liberty Street that he was not welcome in the area after someone called to report a suspicious person walking around with bolt cutters. The man said that the had unsuccessfully tried to make contact with his ex-wife.