Argument results in arrest

The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office took a call from a Columbia Falls number. Dispatch heard crying in the background but no words until a second party started speaking and the line went dead. A call back found two voices arguing. Officers arrived and took the male half of the arguing couple to jail on charges of assault.

An Olney resident called to report a friend of his was going to Eureka to pick up two pounds of marijuana.

A Kalispell woman on Second Street West called to report transients who had set up a camp about 100 yards from her backyard. She witnessed them ripping off materials from a nearby house to burn in a fire pit. Officers talked to the men and found they were the owners of the property and were dismantling the buildings.

A driver on Farm to Market Road called about a red pickup truck that was “messing with her” by slowing down in front of her and speeding up when she tried to pass.

A Fairway Boulevard resident called the Kalispell Police Department when, after his dog was barking at the door, he found a strange man outside who asked to use a phone. He had not knocked and was just standing outside.

A man wanted to report an underage party. He had tried to get in and was jumped and beaten up, so decided to commit a party foul.

A Fourth Avenue West woman called to say that a man against whom she had a restraining order was in her attic with a gun talking with a woman. Officers didn’t find anyone in the house. The woman was suffering from a mental health issue and had a friend coming over to help her.

A caller who had been assaulted by a man in a car a year ago just reported the same man tried to run him over in the same parking lot. Both parties filled out statements.

A man was bitten on the hand by a squirrel while trying to remove the rodent from a building on U.S. 93. It had made a nest in a hotel room. The health department notified police that squirrels could not get rabies so the critter was released to bite another day.

The Whitefish Police Department took a call from an assisted living home about a woman screaming for a long period. Employees knocked on her door and were told to go away. She was screaming for two hours before officers were called and medical assistance was requested.

A man who had a bit too much to drink on Central Avenue was demanding to be given his car keys to drive home. The bartender was concerned he may not only have been drunk but had a head injury because of how strange he was acting. He got a ride home.

The Columbia Falls Police Department was called about a man trying to wheel himself in a wheelchair through the snow.

The Big Mountain Fire Department was called about a fuel spill on Gelande Street at 10:05 a.m.