Arson was just 'unintelligent' kids

A suspected arson in Kalispell turned out to be “just kids being unintelligent in the parking lot.” A caller told the Kalispell Police Department that he chased a group of youths off his property who had lit a bike tire on fire and were throwing it around his property.

Police responded to a report of a 7-year-old running down the middle of Three Mile Drive. When the caller tried to get the child to stop, he told her he was “just outside getting exercise.” Officers attempted to contact a parent but advised that having returned to the sidewalk, the child was allowed to go running.

A store employee in reported a man wearing a gun and knives in his store was making customers feel unsafe. According to the caller, “He keeps taking the knife out and showing it, then putting it back.” After the responding officer spoke with the man, he agreed to leave the weapons in his car.

Police destroyed a “garbage bag full of marijuana” after a motel maintenance man reported his find.

A Kalispell man called the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office to report that a vehicle drove onto his property at 3:30 a.m. and “was spinning a bunch of brodies,” then drove toward the highway and someone inside started firing off a shotgun.

Another caller said that a blue sedan was driving 10 miles under the speed limit, and the passenger was a female with short blonde hair hanging out of the car, “making strange gestures” to passers-by. The caller noted, “They may be been under the influence of drugs or something.”

A shotgun-wielding man stepped out of his house to confront a vehicle that pulled up in his driveway. The occupants of the vehicle insisted they didn’t know where they were and were leaving. The man waited outside his house, shotgun in hand, for deputies to arrive.