A stinky situation for wounded cat

A cat named Stinky was taken to the animal hospital after allegedly being shot in the eye by a pellet gun on Mountain Avenue in Columbia Falls. The alleged shooter told the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office he shot the cat because it was “in the trash,” but didn’t know it belonged to some neighbors. After the incident, the man alleged that the neighbors threatened to kill him and poison his dog.

A Third Street West North resident in Columbia Falls told deputies he reportedly chased out a shoeless man who came into his house with a shotgun. No shots were fired.

Someone on Anderson Lane in Kalispell was concerned that two “shabby motor homes,” which allegedly had trash all over the place, and people were “setting up camp” and possibly dealing methamphetamine.

“Some guy” threatened to punch a woman in the face on East Evergreen Drive.

Someone told officers he or she thought a drug deal “may be going down” after seeing two alleged “tweakers” on U.S. 2 East in Kalispell.

A vehicle was reported stolen on Bernard Avenue in Kalispell.

Two motorcycles were spotted weaving in and out of traffic on Birch Grove Road.

A man was not acting very Christian when someone on Second Street East reported the driver was reportedly “stopping short” in the middle of the road in a vehicle that had “stickers about Jesus on the back” and was “flipping off” him or her.

A man on Idaho Hill Road in Marion reportedly had another man on the ground with a gun pointed at him after allegedly catching him breaking into his vehicle.

Extra patrol was requested on U.S. 2 East when a man who said that although “he has a high tolerance for bad service,” he wouldn’t return to a business where he claimed a group of people were ‘being crazy” and it was a “nut house,” alleging that people were “hooking up in the parking lot” and people may be on drugs.

Someone on U.S. 2 West told the Kalispell Police Department that a man was beaten and possibly had a broken arm.

A man reportedly “keeps jumping fences into private properties.”

A man was reportedly seen taking off his clothes on U.S. 2 West. The man then allegedly fell on his back and appeared to be highly intoxicated. He was transported to the hospital for a cut on his head.

Someone on U.S. 93 North called for advice when the source of a mechanical problem in a vehicle was allegedly found to be a live kitten in the engine compartment. The kitten, which was said to have an amputated leg, was taken to the shelter.

A power pole with low hanging wires concerned someone on Sixth Avenue East. It was determined the wires were phone lines and a technician would check on it.

A fight broke out on North Meridian Road.

Two to three transients seen on Hutton Ranch Road were advised not to camp inside city limits.

A man was reportedly acting strangely on Columbia Avenue and used a credit card that someone claimed may have been stolen and told Whitefish Police Department that the man appeared “to be talking silly.”

An Ashar Avenue property manager said a dog allegedly kept coming onto the property, “pooping all over the place” and barking, but the manager didn’t know where it lived.

A man on U.S. 93 South claimed he was trying to get a cab to the hospital because he was hitchhiking and “the guy that picked him up smoked him a bowl of some crazy weed” and was “freaking out.”

Bigfork Fire Department responded to a vehicle fire on U.S. 35.

Columbia Falls Fire Department responded to a power-line emergency on Seventh Avenue West.

Lakeside emergency responders were called out Thursday morning for a young boy who was injured in a motorbike collision.