Woman told to release vicious cat back into 'the wild'

Trouble was brewing for a woman who trapped a stray cat in her Salem Street garage because the cat had supposedly been vicious toward other cats in the neighborhood. She wasn’t sure what to do with it. Kalispell Police Department advised the woman to “release the cat back into the wild.”

It was a stinky situation for police when two teen girls pushed over a portable toilet and were gone by the time police arrived. The portable toilet was returned to the upright position and no damage was done.

A woman must have not gotten the results she wanted during her workout when she allegedly “cussed out” a man who confronted her in an athletic club parking lot on First Avenue West after she had backed into him, then drove off.

A possibly intoxicated woman wearing a bikini top was spotted walking on Main Street with her pants around her knees.

A woman on West Colorado Street was taken aback when her neighbor came over to her house allegedly threatening to kill her dog “because of the type of dog he is.” She said the dog wasn’t doing anything and hadn’t left her yard. The neighbor later told police the dog had bit him a week ago and that the she broke an agreement to keep the dog in her yard.

A call came in on Second Street West from a cranky person who said people playing basketball in a school near the person’s house on 10th Avenue West had refused to quit playing or being loud.

People reportedly showed up screaming at a woman on West Arizona Street, accusing her of stealing stuff. The woman said there were four adults and a child that shouldn’t be there and was worried they were going to start fighting.

Someone on Sixth Avenue West said he loaned tires to “some guy” and wanted to get the tires back but he wasn’t sure of the man’s name.

A woman reportedly stole a saw at a Third Avenue East business.

A man with two little kids, who appeared to be his grandchildren, was reported as possibly doing a drug deal near a school playground on Fourth Avenue East when someone said a vehicle pulled up and a man got out. The two men exchanged something and the man got back in the vehicle and drove away. Police said a man was out playing basketball with his grandson and nothing suspicious was going on.

A hotel employee on East Idaho Street said that cash and payroll checks were stolen. They later called back and said all items were found “between the sheets” in a room.

A break-in and missing items were reported on Sixth Avenue West.

Whitefish Police Department received a call from a concerned store employee on Central Avenue who said that two strange men entered the store and may have been casing the place. The employee thought one of the men was “drugged out.”

A man on Iron Horse Drive wanted to ask police about alleged threats of physical harm one of his employees made against another employee. He wondered whether the company needed to take legal action in addition to the victim.

Yelling and screaming could be heard between a boyfriend and girlfriend on Texas Avenue. The verbal disturbance possibly started over an argument about the boyfriend stealing the girlfriend’s car last week.

Someone on Colorado Avenue called police to report a house party and cigarette smoke coming in their windows.

Things were getting rowdy at a vacation rental on Dakota Avenue when someone reported clamorous partying on the lake and honking horns.

A man on Spokane Avenue was bit in the arm when he walked by a truck containing a yellow lab.

Someone on Railway Street reported what appeared to be an abandoned vehicle parked by the library for a few weeks.

Columbia Falls Police Department received a report of a man who was reportedly seen taking pictures of every house on Fourth Avenue West. The person calling in the report said they “just think it’s weird.”

“Some guys” were spotted pounding on a demolition derby car with an excavator on Hidden Cedar Loop.  

An RV park owner on U.S. 2 West tried to flag down tenants who left their dog at the location. The abandoned dog was turned over to animal control.

Animal cruelty was reported on South Veteran Drive when a woman confronted a man who left two dogs in a crate out in the sun at a baseball field and that the dogs ran out of water.

An upset woman on Franlou Park Lane said someone kicked down a sign on her property and added that the sign had also been damaged last week.

The driver of a green dirt bike took to the streets going up and down 13th Street West and driving recklessly.