Thief uses unsecured car as personal ATM

Somebody left nearly $2,000 in a vehicle on Colorado Avenue and didn’t lock it. The money was stolen, according to a call to the Whitefish Police Department.

A U.S. 93 business had video of a suspected shoplifter. He was last seen “drinking a 5-Hour Energy.”

A driver alerted police to a flag near a bridge that was “touching the ground.” An officer stopped and propped it up but noted that it would need to be repaired.

Two “homeless people” and a dog were sitting on the deck of a Central Avenue business. An employee wanted them removed.

One Woodland Place resident thought that dogs walking along the nearby river banks were “disturbing” the wildlife on the property.

Police received a report of a man with orange suspenders who fell off of a bicycle on East Second Street and was bleeding from the head. An officer was unable to locate the injured cyclist.

Two bears were spotted near Barkley Lane, and it wasn’t the helicopter that goes by that name.

After a 17-year-old came home from a party vomiting, the parent called the police to report an “underage party” with drugs and alcohol.

The Columbia Falls Fire Department was called to make sure that a grease fire inside a Central Way building was fully extinguished.

The West Valley Fire Department responded to a reported structure fire on Wintercrest Drive. It turned out to be a small burn pile consisting of some fence posts that the owner decided to discard.

Whitefish Fire Department responded to a fire near Happy Valley that apparently got started when high winds blew a branch across power lines on U.S. 93. The fire burned about a half acre.

Someone called the Columbia Falls Police Department with third-hand information about a toothless man who was “stoned out of his mind.”

Graffiti on a school building reminded people of the local area code and expressed unpleasant sentiments toward police, according to a report.

The Kalispell Police Department was called after employees of a Third Avenue East North business watched a woman steal sunglasses by putting them on a child after the tag “fell off.”

A police escort was requested for the winning team of a state softball tournament.

After a suspicious parked vehicle was reported with a dog inside, an officer found that the vehicle’s owner had permission to be there. It was noted in the report that after an event that day, the vehicle “will be dog gone.”

Police met with a witness who thought that he’d seen an escapee from a Missoula pre-release facility.

One man was placed in custody after a disturbance was reported near Second Avenue West North. The caller described a man yelling at a woman and one of them possibly throwing up.

One person felt compelled to call the police on a group of about six kids who walked through a parking lot near Bluestone Drive more than once. Several of them had skateboards, according to the report.

A Sherry Lane resident was told by a neighbor that a mysterious car backed into the driveway and parked there for a half hour in the middle of the night.

One caller thought that 7:30 a.m. was too early for young kids to be outside playing.

A female beagle was found near Buttercup Loop. The person who found it couldn’t keep the dog for too long because it was “in heat” and the resident’s own dog was also in a family way.

Police arrested two boys in relation to an attempted theft. They reportedly tried to pilfer the nicest soccer ball at a Hutton Ranch Road business — it cost $120.