Man caught relieving himself in public

The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office caught up with a man who was accused of urinating in front of people and taking photos of children. He said that he relieved himself in the bushes and thought he was out of sight. He then showed a deputy photos of some birds,  not children.

Authorities recovered a leaf blower that was purportedly stolen from a Fairmont Road school.

A resident of East Village Drive said that a neighbor’s dog repeatedly came around and was “challenging” them. The resident didn’t specify what the dog was challenging them to.

A Hungry Horse resident was treating her dog for possible poisoning a day after she told the Sheriff’s Office that a neighbor threw some food over the fence.

After receiving two cords of wood and paying for three, the customer splintered relations with the wood salesperson and went to the Sheriff’s Office.

One driver felt that Hodgson Road was too narrow for bicyclists to ride.

A man reported that he was in an altercation with a drunken business partner on Mountain Drive in Hungry Horse. It included a brief rock volley. Things apparently cooled down and the man drove away, but the original caller would not make a statement about a possible DUI.

One caller reported that a bank card and a dog were stolen from a car on East Evergreen Drive. The caller wasn’t sure about her exact phone number.

Someone driving by a parked vehicle on U.S. 2 near Kalispell apparently smelled marijuana and called the Sheriff’s Office. Upon inspection, the parked car was unoccupied.

A man is missing his .38 special handgun. He thought it might have been taken from his truck on Rose Crossing.

Someone told the Kalispell Police Department that a hole next to a manhole near Appleway Drive was broken and large enough that “a child could easily fall in.” It was three feet deep and the city marked off the area.

Police were advised to assist an ambulance en route from Eureka with a “combative patient.” On the way, the ambulance was slowed some road construction.

Police arrested a woman for the alleged theft of a fanny pack from a U.S. 2 property.

Tools were reported stolen from several vehicles on Third Avenue West North.

There was a report of a man who smashed the window of a truck on Seventh Avenue East. He was in an apparent fit of rage.

A called wanted the Whitefish Police Department to know that her roommate was at McDonald’s. A reason was not given on the report.

A “load of beer” was dumped onto West 13th Street, spilling boxes and bottles along the roadway.

A driver thought that a pickup was going to ram his vehicle on Nucleus Avenue, according to the Columbia Falls Police Department. It did not.

— Compiled by Inter Lake reporter Matt Hudson