Hunting season open for burglars

A deer head mount and guns were taken from a home on Montana 206 near Columbia Falls, and Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies logged a report.

An all-terrain vehicle that was being held for a fundraiser was stolen from Coverdell Road in Bigfork, along with the trailer it was sitting on. Deputies collected the cut lock and logged a report.

Locks were cut off of multiple storage units at a facility on Holt Drive in Bigfork.

A 1986 Red Chevrolet truck was stolen from a Flathead Drive address and returned shortly thereafter to the owner after a person reported that he had seen a notice about the stolen truck and thought it might be parked outside his children’s playground. The owner had left the truck unlocked and running in the morning to warm it up.

A casino in Lakeside asked deputies what they could do to keep a man from entering the casino and trying to eat food there. The man had repeated the scenario multiple times and was vulgar and mean when staffers asked him to leave.

The Columbia Falls Police Department responded to a woman on Seventh Avenue West who said a neighbor had grown agitated about her feeding squirrels bread. The neighbor told the woman to stop feeding the squirrels and picked up all the bread. The neighbor threatened the woman by saying she would knock her down if she kept feeding the squirrels. A citation was issued.

Officers warned a person walking on the railroad tracks about trespassing and the need to stay off the tracks.

The Whitefish Police Department fielded a call from a person who picked up a set of DeWalt tools that fell from a truck a week earlier. The person had put an ad on Craigslist trying to reunite the tools with the owner but had not had any luck. The person hoped police could help find the owner.

A man told the Kalispell Police Department that he was at a birthday party when he was chased away by five drunken people, one of whom indicated that they wanted to stab him. The man said he was worried about his safety. Officers tracked down the suspects, who said that the man had been kicked out of the party because he was being rude and loud. They said the man was “famous” for calling 911 when parties don’t go his way. Officers deemed the initial report unfounded.

Officers found there had been no theft after a woman on Ninth Street East claimed that a neighbor had stolen her ferret, put an ad on Craigslist, and sold the pet.