Parents take son to police station
Parents brought a 9-year-old boy to the Columbia Falls Police Department after he made a threat and got suspended from school earlier that day. They wanted an officer to let the child know what can happen to people when they make threats.
A person spotted a teenage boy who had been hanging around Eighth Avenue East North during school hours. The reporting party talked to the boy, who confided his father had threatened to kill him and commit suicide. The boy said he had not eaten in three days. As the person heated up food, the boy took off. The person who found the boy was afraid he might run from uniformed officers. Police increased patrol in the area.
No one wanted to file a statement with officers after someone called 911 to report being cut by two men at a Nucleus Avenue location. The person said their arm was bleeding and that the suspects fled on foot. The bleeding person also reported that the men had pulled a gun on someone.
A Whitefish Police officer found clothes and a toothbrush in a backpack that was turned in by man who said he was walking to the store when another white-haired man on a bicycle stopped, gave him a “Scottish” looking backpack and left. The white-haired man told the recipient the backpack had “weed” in it. No illegal drugs were found.
A man used a phone-tracking online application to track the location of a bag he left outside his car at a martial arts building. He drove off and someone picked the bag up. Officers were dispatched to help find the bag.
A helicopter was called from Sandpoint, Idaho, by the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office after a person was injured in a logging accident on Keeler Rattle Road near Troy.
A man near Fireman’s Park in Libby said someone came and knocked on his camper door, but no one was there when he answered. The man got his gun out and asked that law enforcement increase patrol in the area.
Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies responded to Elk Park Road near Columbia Falls, where a man was threatening to jack-hammer someone’s sidewalk.
Deputies investigated after a pawn shop in Columbia Falls called to report that someone was trying to pawn a .38 Smith and Wesson blue steel revolver. The gun was registered as stolen out of Georgia in 1999.
Deputies determined a man on Stag Lane had to use force to remove a trespasser, after a witness called 911 because they saw an elderly woman pushed to the ground by a man. The woman’s hand was bleeding after the incident. Deputies were unable to make contact with the injured woman.
A woman on South Hilltop Road outside of Columbia Falls told deputies she was being sexually harassed by her landlord. She met with an attorney and had a letter of no contact served earlier that day. The landlord then threw an eviction notice into the woman’s vehicle and said “you’ve been served.” The woman had bear spray at the ready because she was afraid the landlord was going to come into the house. Deputies advised the landlord of laws that require a 30-day notice of eviction, and learned that the landlord had also shut the woman’s water off by “accident.”
A man was out hunting on Trumbull Canyon Road when he stumbled upon a foul-smelling, blanket-wrapped corpse. The man didn’t want to unravel the blanket because his 2-year-old son was with him. Law enforcement found a dead dog in the blanket.
Kalispell Police officers were dispatched to an oral surgery business where a 31-year-old woman was asking for an Oxycontin prescription. A worker at the clinic said the woman had been to at least 30 doctors trying to get drugs.
A person requested that an officer respond to the intersection of East Idaho Steet and North Main Street after a transient in a wheelchair stood up and urinated in the bushes by a business. The reporting person wanted the man to know that his behavior was inappropriate.