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Trampoline caper goes unpunished

| May 21, 2015 9:00 PM

The Whitefish Police Department received a report that two teenagers allegedly jumped on an O’Brien Avenue resident’s trampoline and then drove away.

Police advised some youths not to trespass on the roof of an Edgewood Place business, as they had been caught doing.

Someone reportedly caught a shoplifter red-handed at a Central Avenue Business. The shoplifter allegedly threw the stolen goods back at the witness and drove away.


When a woman asked someone about her husband, she reportedly received a text message reply that he was dead. She called the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office, who confirmed that the husband was very much alive. The two had been having marital issues.

An Airport Road resident asked the Sheriff’s Office if she could use a Taser on her neighbor in the event of trespassing.

More than a month early, fireworks reportedly were going off near Mountain Drive in Hungry Horse. A woman who reported the nuisance said that she was going to “buy a bullhorn and yell all day” in response.

A man arrived to pick up his belongings from his estranged wife and found that she was selling his stuff.

One driver who felt she was being followed told the Sheriff’s Office that a tracking device may have been placed on her car.

Deputies walked through a U.S. 2 business near Kalispell after some people were reported to be “twitching out.”

Someone was apparently digging around and found a “blanket filled with bones” buried on Crane Mountain. The caller was advised to call the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.

A man thought that some kids threw a snowball at his car on Montana 35.

It seemed friendly enough when a man waved at a Spring Creek Drive resident. But the resident was not happy that he did so after walking onto her property.


The Kalispell Police Department cited and released a man who tried to steal a “block of cheese” from a First Avenue East North business.

The front end of a car was “destroyed” in a crash on Hilltop Avenue. One driver reported a sore neck.

Someone tried to alert police about a warrant for a man who walked into the hospital. Police told the caller that there was no active warrant.

One witness thought she saw a woman “huffing on some sort of pipe” near a city playground.

A woman called police right after she was allegedly hit in the face by another woman.

A woman found that another car had parked “on her bumper.” The driver of the offending car reportedly apologized and drove away. The woman made a police report.

A dog owner watched as a sport utility vehicle ran over the pup on Second Avenue West and drove away.

The Bigfork and Ferndale fire departments responded to a house fire on Raven Way that reportedly started from a stove burner.


The Columbia Falls Police Department cited a woman who allegedly stole a 30-pack of beer from a Ninth Street West business.

A Mossberg shotgun was found on Frontage Road.

No injuries were reported in a Sixth Street West crash, but the drivers reportedly couldn’t agree on what had transpired.