Unhinged thief makes off with $150

A business owner on Central Avenue called the Whitefish Police Department after a thief had taken the hinges off a door to get into a locked building and made off with $150.

A man called police after he realized he couldn’t get into his pickup truck parked on Depot Street. He said the locks were frozen and he had no way to get home.

A Kalispell Avenue resident called police after listening to his neighbors have a disturbance for several hours. There was loud banging, yelling and the dogs wouldn’t stop barking. 

The Columbia Falls Police Department was called to wrangle a loose Pomeranian before it turned into a fluffy snowball. The owner complained how the police officer caught the pup, to which he responded by telling her the next time it got loose, he would write her a citation.

The Kalispell Police Department was called to a fight outside a  fast food restaurant on Idaho Street, where one man was struck with a flashlight and had his head split open. 

A Helena woman desperately was trying to contact her son but was unaware where he was or how to find him. Officers contacted the man, who didn’t want to talk to his “crack-head” mother.

A drunken man passed out on the counter of a U.S. 93 hotel and would not wake up. He was cleared medically and a taxi was called to take him home to sleep it off.

An Empire Loop man came home to find a young, drunk teenager on his couch. He had never seen the youth before, but the young man claimed he was in his mother’s house. The caller was concerned because he was in a wheelchair and the teen threatened to fight him and kick him out of “his mother’s house.”

The Lake County Sheriff’s Office made an arrest on Main Street in Polson for assault on a minor.