Stealing candy is not child's play

It may be easy to take candy from a baby, but don’t try stealing it from the U.S. 2 business where an employee called the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office to report they had burned a DVD that recorded a theft of cookies and candies. Fortunately, stealing candy is not child’s play.

A street-side gun sale went wrong when the seller turned out to be an easy target. A man on Montana 35 near Kalispell reported that his two friends had told him they had found someone who wanted to buy his rifle. The man wrote out a bill of sale and handed the rifle to one of the friends, who was going to make the sale transaction but never returned with the money.

A tense scene unfolded when someone on Twin Acres Drive in Kalispell called officers and said their father — who has dementia, was hallucinating and feels “betrayed” — had a loaded firearm and left home in a mini van after threatening his wife.

Fraud may be the answer to the “secret” in secret shopper when someone on South Cedar Drive reported online fraud because after they applied to be a secret shopper they were sent a check and said the situation seemed fishy. In one typical scheme, scammers ask people to deposit or cash a phony check and then to send the online associate a real one with real money that will never be seen again.

It wasn’t window shopping that citizens were concerned about when they saw two people wearing dark clothes walking around and looking into the windows of businesses on U.S. 2.

A man — who had previously reported a motor home partially parked in the street — called officers and said the man living in the motor home  on Mountain Drive in Hungry Horse was very intoxicated, yelling and cussing, and that any time someone tells him to move, he yells at them. Deputies later received a call about the same man by someone who wanted to talk to a detective instead of deputies because he wanted to make a citizen’s arrest.

Making money was a priority for a casino worker on Montana 206 in Columbia Falls who waited to report an assault that happened last Sunday because “she didn’t want the patrons to clear out when deputies showed up.”

A husband on Blaine Mountain Road told officers that one of his wife’s former students, who was described as having mental health issues, reportedly had been posting “unusual stuff” on his wife’s Facebook page.

An unruly grandson shouldn’t have been surprised when a grandparent didn’t let him in their Two Mile Drive residence, despite persistent ringing of the doorbell, because the grandson had threatened the grandparents earlier.

Keys left hanging on the inside of a Lake Blaine Road business were reported stolen while a bartender went outside to dump garbage.

Someone called deputies from their trailer on U.S. 93 to report that someone broke a window and bent the frame during a failed attempt to break in.

An abandoned, emaciated-looking dog wearing no collar was found on North Fork Road in Columbia Falls.

A woman believed her ex-husband broke into her house in Kalispell, stole some things and broke her guitar because he had sent her nasty text messages earlier.

A stolen underwater camera was located at a U.S. 2 East pawn shop in Kalispell, and there was surveillance footage of the suspects.

Someone on Center Street in Kalispell reported being almost hit head-on at an intersection by a “full-sized” white and red Bronco that was “jacked up” on large tires.

Missing ammunition was believed to be stolen after it was delivered to  a residence on Klondyke Loop in Somers.

Kalispell Police Department responded to a knife attack on Fifth Avenue West when someone was stabbed in the back.

A concerned father said his daughter’s boyfriend posted a picture on an instant messaging app and that she was now “getting a lot of feedback from the site.”

Police assistance was requested for a fight between inmates at the jail on South Main Street.

An upset father wanted to talk to an officer about what to do with his defiant and aggressive son on Kynzie Lane. He said his son had “cussed out” him and his wife, then left, saying, “You have to wait 24 hours to report me as a runaway juvenile.”

Glasses, credit cards, a checkbook and change were stolen from a vehicle on Second Avenue East.

Embezzlement concerns were reported from a business on Commons Way where it was believed that an employee was stealing cash deposits and substituting checks for the cash in the amount of approximately $3,600.

An employee working for a beverage company told the Whitefish Police Department that a six-pack of beer was missing from the parked truck while delivering to a Baker Avenue business.

When carpets were replaced at an apartment building on Edgewood Place, a truck allegedly stopped in front of a woman’s house and dumped the carpet padding in her yard.

A man called in to report an assault on Baker Avenue. The caller — described by police as not very helpful with information — told officers “you should do your job,” when asked to file a report at the station. When officers called back and asked him to fill out a statement, he declined, telling an officer “to do his job and arrest them,” and that if he didn’t he was going to contact “the commissioner.”

Columbia Falls Police Department got an earful from someone in an apartment building on Seventh Street West who complained of noise from neighbors “who were banging on the floor.” The person believed it was because the neighbor’s son was playing with toys on the floors — which was an ongoing issue. Marijuana smells were also reported emanating from the same apartment.