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LAW ROUNDUP: Rollover near Lakeside prompts air rescue

| April 28, 2016 7:30 PM

Lakeside Ambulance responded Thursday afternoon to a single-vehicle rollover accident on U.S. 93 north of Dayton. The vehicle reportedly rolled four times and a man was ejected. The ALERT Air Ambulance flew the man to the hospital.


A youngster called the Kalispell Police Department after witnessing a man steal his bicycle. The initial caller’s mother called dispatch a few hours later, saying she saw the bike at a grocery store. Police cited a man for theft.

Officers found an abandoned crashed vehicle that had been stolen from a Kalispell business last Friday.

An armed man threatened a couple during a verbal altercation that climaxed when the man lifted his shirt to reveal a pistol in his waistband and said, “I’m packing. I will find you guys and I will hurt you.” The man was with three other men, according to the report. Police were able to locate the man and bring him to the station for an interview.

A chain saw valued at $449 was reported stolen.

At 4:20 p.m., Kalispell Police returned a phone call to a man who said his neighbor’s dog had been barking since 7 a.m. When officers arrived, the dog was no longer barking.

A woman called dispatch after she saw a man pull up to her apartment building on a motorcycle. She believed the man was coming to the apartments to conduct drug business.

A man said he believed police “and others” had installed microphones in his house. The caller did not want an officer to contact him, but wanted the complaint passed along to the sheriff.

Someone reported almost $400 electronically stolen from his bank account.


In Whitefish, a different man reported to the Whitefish Police Department that fraudulent charges to his bank account were drawn by a business on U.S. 93. The man wanted to file a report so his bank could cancel the fraudulent charges.

A man reported two mountain bikes had been stolen.

After a Whitefish resident called 911 to report several vehicles parked illegally and blocking the parking to his home, police found no parked cars warranting a violation or blocking any driveway.


A man called the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office to say his daughter and a friend were doing synthetic heroin and he wanted them arrested.

An employee at the county impound lot reported a man cutting the lock to the lot and retrieving a bicycle from the back of a pickup truck. The employee captured the event on camera.

A woman was seen going door to door in a neighborhood, explaining there were demons in the home and the residents needed to evacuate the area for “two hours and go to the mall.”