Harassment call ends in immigration arrests

The U.S. Border Patrol took custody of four undocumented immigrants after a woman told the Columbia Falls Police Department that a man was harassing her. The woman said she sold the man some items and that he then asked her for sex. The woman told police that the man was living with six other men at a motel. When authorities investigated, they found four men who were in the country illegally.

Police were told that a passer-by had put out a couch fire on Nucleus Avenue. The person pulled the couch from in front of a building and put the fire out with water buckets after noticing the couch was smoldering.

The donation box for the Ronald McDonald Foundation was stolen from a drive-through window. Whitefish Police officers logged a report and noted that lock to the box had been cut.

A vehicle was towed and its owner was cited for parking on the wrong side of the street after a woman on Lupfer Avenue called to report that the Toyota sedan had been on the street for four days. The door of the vehicle was left open for two days but was closed by a neighbor. The woman was worried that the vehicle had been stolen. Police could find no evidence it was stolen.

Lincoln County Sheriff’s deputies and an ambulance were called to a Libby retail store, where a man was hit in the head with a stick by another man. The suspect was not found.

A man on Farm-to-Market Road reported that another man had showed up to a job site where both were working and threatened to shoot him. Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies responded and the victim said his coworker had a .357 magnum on his hip at the time of the threat. Deputies determined the situation had escalated after the man who was threatened tried to show the aggressor paperwork proving he had missed work for medical reasons. The aggressor had apparently told the man’s roommate that he was a “tweaker” who had recently been fired. Officers took statements in the case.

Gas was reported stolen from a U-Haul truck on Montana 35.

A woman reported that she believed her ex-boyfriend had someone break into her storage unit because all that was taken were photos and personal documents.  

A woman found a ring at a Hungry Horse pawn shop that she had reported  stolen 10 years ago.

An inmate looking for a plea bargain called Kalispell Police Department to report a burglary.

A car fire was reported at an automotive shop on West Idaho Street. The fire was knocked down and officers filed a report.