Truck driver leaves fallen dog behind

A hapless brown dog with a blue collar fell out of a truck — and the driver drove on. A good citizen on East Second Street caught the dog and was asked by officers to bring it to the Whitefish Police Department.

A distressed woman in her Colorado Avenue apartment said she saw a child wearing a scary silver mask in front of her car and it appeared as if he was looking up into her apartment; he also reportedly squatted near a green car. She got upset at the questions dispatch was asking her and hung up. An officer looked around and talked with the woman who “stated the suspect male was right next to the officer and there was nobody there.”

Someone reported several tools stolen by burglars in a garage on Karrow Avenue.

Two people — one wearing a red snowboarding coat — were holding flashlights and trying to open car doors on Colorado Avenue.

A boyfriend allegedly “went psycho” on his girlfriend, wrestling her to the ground and stealing her purse and keys. The girlfriend called the Kalispell Police Department from Second Avenue West North and said the boyfriend may have a wound on his face because she elbowed him in the face and he went to the hospital to get stitches. She also said he had meth on him.

A man called police and said another man had slapped him on the face before taking off in a vehicle with a female passenger on Treeline Road. The man who made the call said he was driving and gave them the “bird” since they had their bright lights on. Both vehicles stopped, the drivers got out of vehicles and the man hit him in the face. He said he also smelled alcohol on their breath.

A co-worker’s husband allegedly threatened a man who called police from First Avenue East to report the harassment and that the husband “may have done something to his truck to make it not run right.”

An elderly woman was seen driving the wrong way in a roundabout and was northbound on the U.S. 93  bypass, possibly still going the wrong way.

Two angry and possibly hungry shoplifters were being combative with store security on U.S. 93. The male shoplifter had stuffed items in his pants and the woman concealed items in her purse.

A suspicious man described as wearing “grubby” clothing was reported walking with a rifle on U.S. 2 West by someone who did not actually see him but was given the information by someone who did.

An observant woman on Greenbriar Drive reported a slender man wearing a stocking cap, glasses and carrying a clipboard came by her house saying he was a representative with the Boys and Girls Club and said she thought he was trying to scam people. Officers believe this man was part of the same group of people they have dealt with several times regarding incidents earlier this month where people were going door-to-door misrepresenting themselves as soliciting money for a magic show.

A concerned school principal called police to report a boy between the ages of 3 and five — wearing no coat and boots on the wrong feet — who was walking on the school playground at Third Avenue West. The boy was returned to his mother who lived on the same block.

A man on Seventh Avenue West had questions about people parking in the gravel in front of his house.

Aggressive dogs cornered a woman on Ninth Avenue West and Fifth Avenue West.

A silver Toyota 4Runner was reported stolen by the owner calling from Third Avenue East. The owner said the keys were not in the vehicle but he cannot find them.

A woman on U.S. 93 North called police to say another female driver in a green Volvo SUV went in the center lane to pass vehicles, throwing up gravel that hit and chipped the caller’s windshield.

A woman caring for her friend’s dog said it “didn’t appear it had been getting cared for properly” and had concerns about giving the dog back. She was advised that she cannot keep the dog and it was not emaciated but thin from having 11 puppies, but she could file a complaint with Eureka law enforcement where the owners lived.

The Columbia Falls Police Department received a report from someone on Terrace Court who wanted officers to talk to an unfriendly neighbor who regularly lets a golden retriever out around 7:25 a.m. and  6 p.m. and it chases and barks at people. On this occasion, the dog was chasing and barking at a couple jogging down the street.

The same excitable golden retriever was spotted around 5 p.m. on Riparian Drive.