Ninja turtle seeks relief in public

A 40-year-old man in a ninja-turtle costume was seeing running down Fifth Avenue East and urinating in front of a house. The homeowners called Kalispell Police Department hoping to have him charged with indecent exposure.

A man in a police costume started a fight with several people at a U.S. 93 South parking lot. After the man removed his cop costume, he left the parking but allegedly came back in a gray Dodge van and hit one of the people standing around in the parking lot. The driver fled north on U.S. 93 before officers arrived.

A Third Street East house was broken into while the homeowner had taken her daughter trick-or-treating. Nothing appeared to be missing.

A Hutton Ranch Road business employee called police after noticing a woman in her late 20s stuffing items under her jacket.

A Sixth Avenue East resident called police to report someone had shot a mortar into his house for the second time this week. No damage was reported, but the caller wanted officers to visit the neighbor.

A man called to report that he had hit another vehicle Friday night and he had left all of his information with the vehicle.

A woman called 911 when a man sleeping in her bed had been snoring and stopped breathing. She dropped the phone and performed CPR, successfully, while dispatch remained on the line and sent an ambulance.

Someone found a gun Sunday morning on Main Street.

Someone called Whitefish Police after an alligator flag was stolen from in front of a house. The flag was later found with several others at a golf course near Fairway Drive, where someone had driven onto the fairways and greens. The moonlight drivers planted on one of the greens American, University of Montana and alligator flags taken from various places around Whitefish. Employees at the golf course said trick-or-treaters were the vandals who broke one of the flags off a pole at the golf course.

Someone egged a Whitefish vehicle on Pine Avenue between 5:30 and 8 a.m. Sunday morning.

An East Second Street employee called police about a man who was sleeping on the sidewalk, blocking the front door.

A Railway Street resident reported a chicken wandering the neighborhood.

Someone stole a leather coat and pair of chaps from a Spokane Avenue home the night of Halloween.

A landlord called police after a former tenant drove over a sign and into a garden on her property. The caller believed the driver was attempting to run her over because she had evicted him from the property.

Someone called Columbia Falls Police to report that a man who had purchased his vehicle and moved to Texas had refused to remove the old license plates. The caller was concerned because he said the new vehicle owner had “used the vehicle to get into trouble in Texas.”

A sign blew over on Sunday on Sixth Avenue in Columbia Falls, blocking traffic.