LAW ROUNDUP: Lives threatened in eviction case

A woman on Second Avenue West complained to Kalispell Police Department that she was having difficulty evicting her renters. The renter allegedly threatened the landlord by saying that her boyfriend would kill the landlord. The landlord was afraid because the boyfriend allegedly stabbed someone on Oct. 23. Officers determined that the landlord had not yet served eviction papers in the case.

A man was arrested at a hotel on U.S. 93 after management called to report that guests had not left like they were supposed to. The phone was off the hook and the door was latched shut. Officers interviewed the people in the room and one person ended up with a ride to jail.

A woman called to report that her husband had thrown a coffee cup through a window during a heated argument on Eighth Avenue West. The man left the scene after the ruckus. Officers advised the woman of her options.

An officer responded to Greenbriar Drive where a 90-year-old woman could hear her sump pump running, but could not physically check on it herself. The officer turned the faucet off and removed the handle so it could not be turned back on.

License plates were removed from a vehicle and given to their owner after an officer responded to a fight between sisters on Fifth Avenue West. A woman said she had signed the vehicle over to her sister and given her a year to get the license plates changed, but the sister had not done so. The original owner tried to remove the plates, but the pair got into a physical fight where one sister pushed the other on the ground prior to the officer’s arrival.

A duffel bag full of property was reported on Wisconsin Avenue to Whitefish Police Department. The reporting party thought the property might be stolen, but officers said the bag belonged to a man who had gotten into an altercation with his girlfriend a day earlier.

A vehicle was reported stolen from U.S. 93 and was found by railroad workers on a rough dirt road later. The owner said the vehicle had been “torn up.”

An officer told dispatchers that a suspicious person reported on U.S. 93 was waiting to catch a train to Chicago. Someone reported that the man had been standing in the middle of the road, screaming, at one point.

Columbia Falls Police took a report from a man on Scenic Drive who said that he had discovered $14,000 in fraudulent charges to his bank card.

A property owner reported that a door had been kicked in on Third Avenue West and it looked like squatters had moved in. An officer secured the property as best as possible and collected items that may have belonged to the squatters.

An officer was dispatched to First Street East where children were seen running across the street in between passing cars in a suspected game of tag. The reporting party was worried the game might end badly.