Suspected 'refugees' are just workers

A woman requested that officers from the Kalispell Police Department investigate what she suspected were seven “refugees” moving into a new apartment building on Treeline Road. She was told they are workers and are allowed to be in the units.

A woman on Third Avenue West was reportedly swinging a shovel at the neighbor’s dogs following a dispute.

Police told the driver of a car to move along after the vehicle remained parked in a traffic lane near the intersections of Main and Center streets. The vehicle’s stall was because the driver was playing Pokemon Go.

The Whitefish Police Department got a call about a red gas can sitting on the corner of an intersection on Baker Avenue. The caller said it just looked suspicious.

Flathead County sheriff’s deputies responded after a caller reported his allegedly drunk neighbor threatened him with what appeared to be a bayonet in his hand.

A frequent 911 caller was told to stop giving dispatch a rundown of his daily observations, unless he has a need for law enforcement, fire or medical assistance. He requested to speak with the supervisor, began giving his daily report to the supervisor and was told to start faxing it instead.

The man then asked to talk to a deputy, who called him, and found the man did not want to talk with him. The man called 911 again, this time requesting a different deputy.

About 14 stacks of hay were reportedly pushed off a man’s truck.

A man said that his wife hit him several times with a shovel while he was mowing the lawn. He did not want to press charges.

A Columbia Falls woman told dispatch that a group of people jumped her fence and attempted to ride her miniature horses.

Evergreen and Kalispell fire departments responded to a smoke report in Village Greens, but were unable to locate the fire. The initial call to dispatch indicated that a grass fire had entered some trees in the neighborhood. Residents of the Mission Village neighborhood above Village Greens said they had seen a large plume of smoke wafting up from the adjacent development but the smoke dissipated quickly.