The plane! The plane! Lake landings legal

A woman was unhappy after Whitefish Police officers told her it was legal for airplanes to land on Whitefish Lake. Two planes had landed near the woman’s home. The woman was advised that she could take the complaint to the Federal Aviation Administration if she wanted.

The woman called 911 again an hour later because the officer on duty had not given her the Federal Aviation Administration’s number. The woman said she was going to call 911 each time a plane landed until the officer gave her the agency’s number. Dispatchers advised the woman this was not an appropriate usage of 911, but the woman called again less than an hour later saying the agency phone number she was given had not gotten her in touch with federal aviation officials. She was told to again to not call 911 with non-emergencies.

Officers retrieved a backpack that a woman found left on her East Second Street lawn by a transient who left after the homeowner turned on her porch light at 4:30 a.m. The transient had been sleeping on her porch.

Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies responded to Tamarack Woods Drive in Lakeside to a report of a man who had been shooting guns throughout the week, after he shot a black bear in the subdivision a week previously.

A bear knocked over a trash can near West Glacier, and someone reported that needles were found in the rubble. The reporting party believed the needles might belong to a man who is suspected of drug usage. The person who called thought the man might be hiding in the woods, so they went into the woods and looked for the man’s drug stash. Deputies were dispatched.

Parents on River Place were counseled after their 15-year-old son called 911, saying that his parents were hitting him. The boy said ongoing arguments over the previous two days had escalated into a physical fight, when the parents told the child to leave. The mother told deputies the boy was upset and acting out because his PlayStation 3 and cellphone were taken away because of bad grades.

Three guns were reported stolen from a home on Jensen Road in Columbia Falls. The gun owner had a suspect in mind.

Approximately 33 logs of a log building kit were stolen from a Blankenship Road address near West Glacier.

Deputies reassured a caller that he didn’t have any warrants listed in a database, after the man reported that he kept getting text messages from someone claiming they were a local bounty hunter and needed to collect the man’s personal information in regard to a warrant.

Dispatchers told a woman to call block a number that was used to call the woman’s husband three times. The person on the other end of the line threatened to shoot the woman’s husband. The number was listed online as a well-known scam number.

Kalispell Police Department took a report from a Second Street West address where a mother said her 12-year-old son was approached by a man in his mid-40s, driving an older white van. The man tried to give the boy candy in exchange for the boy getting in the van.

A fence was cut and seven storage units were broken into on North Meridian Road.

A man was upset after he let his friend borrow his 2004 gray convertible Mustang. The friend was supposed to bring the car back after an hour, but skipped town and ended up in Spokane. The man filled out a statement and the vehicle was located and impounded in Spokane. The man then contacted police complaining about having to pay the impound fees. Officers let the man know what his options were.

A janitor was worried when he saw a man sitting inside a running truck behind a bar on U.S. 93 South just before 3 a.m. The man did not respond when the janitor approached him. The truck had been running for more than a half-hour. Deputies determined the man was from Trego and he was given permission to sleep in a bartender’s car instead of driving home.