Burglary suspect admits meth use

A woman was taken to jail by Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies for burglary after a person returned to their motorhome on River Avenue near Columbia Falls and found a woman ransacking the place. When officers arrived the female suspect said she had ingested about two grams of methamphetamine earlier that day. She was taken into custody on outstanding warrants.

Deputies took a report from a woman on Cooperative Way who said her sister’s backpack was stolen from her vehicle the night before. The backpack ended up on the woman’s front door with a note that said “You are pretty. Call alone.”

A called was forwarded to the Northwest Drug Task Force after officers were dispatched to a residence on Conrad Drive because a woman reported she believed one of her family members had a meth lab in the garage.

Whitefish Police officers found that all was fine after someone called dispatch to report that “there’s a group of people in the back making pancakes,” on Spokane Avenue.

Someone on LaBrie Drive reported a suspicious vehicle that drove through the area five or six times looking at houses. Officers increased patrol but did not find activity of note.

Someone called Columbia Falls Police Department at 7:37 a.m. from Crescent Circle, complaining that a cleaning company was starting too early in the morning, causing noise in the neighborhood.

The city manager was made aware of graffiti spray-painted on the pavement of Martha Road. According to the reporting party, the image depicted one stick figure doing inappropriate things to another stick figure.

Several guns and other items were reported missing from a Bethany Street home.

Kalispell Police Department counseled a driver after someone reported that a “little kid” who was estimated to be less than 10 years old, was driving a red Toyota truck and swerving on North Main Street and East Idaho Street.

A woman said her son’s military items were stolen from a storage unit on North Meridian Road. The lock to the unit was cut.

A drunken man left a bar and casino on Airport Road and ran through the city of Kalispell’s shop fence. He was transported for a blood draw to determine blood alcohol concentration at the hospital, but for medical reasons was taken home instead of to jail. People at the home refused to let the man stay, so officers took the man to the emergency room to get him cleared to spend a night in jail. The man was later booked into the Flathead County Detention Center.

A woman reported a teacher hit her autistic 16-year-old son in the head because he didn’t have his homework done. Officers referred the woman to school administrators, who are looking into the matter after the woman said she would not want to press charges. School officials told officers the boy had been hit with a piece of paper the previous day because he was not prepared for a presentation.

Officers notified Charter Communications that a semi-truck traveling on Foy’s Lake Road had snagged phone and Internet lines. A witness reported the downed lines and said the semi did not stop and kept going after the incident.