Man says Canadians to blame for fights

A man on Central Avenue told the Whitefish Police Department he and his brother were being accosted outside of the bar. However, he admitted that he was really at home, upset because his father was hurt by foreigners outside the bar earlier and displeased with officers’ response. The man’s father called and said he didn’t want medical treatment or a police report, but that it is wrong for dispatchers to hang up on his son because Canadians keep coming into Whitefish, starting fights and getting away with it.

A woman on East Seventh Street said she been assaulted by the playground attendant at a school after she confronted another person who hit her Dodge Caravan.

Officers separated and put into taxis five drunken men who got into a bar fight at a Central Avenue establishment.

Police did not find anyone at a Riverside Avenue home after a woman reported that someone kept ringing her doorbell. The woman suspected her ex-husband might be the culprit.

Columbia Falls Police took a report of a truck that had its windows smashed on Nucleus Avenue. A Global Positioning System was taken. Bicycle tracks were found in the broken glass.

Officers reunited a woman with her purse. The woman woke up and was distraught when she found her purse wasn’t with her at a residence on Sixth Avenue West. Her door had been locked during the night. Officers found the purse at a grocery store.

A woman reported that a man in a white Chevrolet pickup truck had told her he would ram her red Chevrolet pickup truck if she didn’t close her door. The man rammed the woman’s door and pushed her truck out of the way. Officers found out the man was on probation.

A sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl was reported on Third Avenue East North.

A woman was told to contact Child Protective Services after she showed up to the police department with a boy. The boy was yelling that he didn’t need help, but the woman believed he did. The woman said the boy had sneaked into her house, though he lives in a different neighborhood. The boy confessed that he and his father had fallen on hard times.

An assault was reported in the Lake County Detention Center.