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Woman wonders if someone hid a body

| September 17, 2015 9:00 PM

Officers with the Columbia Falls Police Department told a woman to call back if she received any more texts from a number that sent her an earlier message that read: “I just hid the body.”

Officers took a report about donations being set on fire at a business on Nucleus Avenue. The organization’s cameras recently were stolen.

Officers retrieved marijuana and a pipe from a business on Meadow Lake Boulevard. Employees had found the paraphernalia.


Tools were reported stolen from a construction job site located off U.S. 93. The Whitefish Police Department responded and found that the plywood had been pried off a wall to get into the store.

Officers took a report about a man who allegedly left another drunk man with a bloodied nose behind a bar on Central Avenue after the pair got into a fight.


Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies arrested an apparently drunk man who was first reported walking in traffic on U.S. 2 East. A person tried to pick the man up, but the man threatened to kill the driver.

A man on Handkerchief Creek Drive was advised to take a bat he killed to the Flathead City-County Health Department. The man killed the bat because it was acting strangely.

A woman on East Evergreen Drive reported that her daughter was hit in the back of the head while she was walking home from school. The boy who hit her also cursed at the girl.

Deputies told a man there was little they could do to alleviate problems caused by scammers who listed a man’s home as for rent on Craigslist without getting the homeowner’s permission. The ad was taken down on Sept. 13 by the website but appeared again later.


The Kalispell Police Department responded to a business on U.S. 93, where a manager was concerned because the spouse of one of his married employees was contacting other employees about the  employee having an affair with an unmarried co-worker. The manager was concerned because the spouse has a history of violence. The manager was told how to get an order of protection.

A man said a coworker threatened to kill him if he didn’t transfer to another branch of the fast food chain where he worked. Management has reported previous threats to police before, and the man has had to change his phone number multiple times.