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A Two Mile Drive business asked the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office to check on an employee who hadn’t shown up for work. Through the investigation they learned that the employee had announced his resignation via email.

A U.S. 2 business reported the theft of $5.88 in jerky. Employees gave information on the suspect to law enforcement.

Residents at a Blankenship Road home left for an hour and returned to find the place had been burglarized. They told deputies that they had security video footage.

A Walsh Road resident sold a vehicle but didn’t remove the license plates. She later received fine notices for running through toll booths.

A driver called the Sheriff’s Office about another car tailgating him on U.S. 2. The driver said that he had a gun and threatened to use it, according to the report. Also in his car were a wife and kids.

A woman called and told authorities she had been in a fight with her boyfriend. She reported having a bloody lip.

A Helena Flats man called to let law enforcement know that his wife might be driving drunk near Kalispell. She later returned home unscathed.

The Kalispell Fire Department helped clean up a three-vehicle crash at the busy intersection of Idaho Street and Main Street.

There was a rear-end crash on Baker Avenue. The Whitefish Police Department said that a medical issue might have caused one driver to run the vehicle into the other’s car.

A Florida man asked the police to help him out with a former roommate. He said that he used to live on Baker Avenue with a woman but had since moved. Still, the woman kept calling him. An officer left a message with the woman.

Several neighbors reported thefts in the Fourth Avenue West area. One of them called the Columbia Falls Police Department to report that a suspicious vehicle was nearby. Officers brought some people in for questioning and searched her vehicle.

Firefighters from the Department of Natural Resources, U.S. Forest Service and Olney Fire Department responded Thursday evening to a series of fires near the railroad tracks north of Olney.

— Compiled by Inter Lake reporter Matt Hudson