Deputy counsels drivers after road-rage incident

A Flathead County Sheriff’s Office deputy counseled both parties involved after slippery ice caused a vehicle to slide as another was passing. The passing driver thought the other vehicle was trying to cut him off and he proceeded to follow the other car in an act of road rage all around Lakeside and back to a convenience store where the man exited the vehicle, only to be greeted by a deputy who had been called to handle the matter. 

A disabled Columbia Falls woman was counseled after she called to report that children had destroyed the solar lights she had outside her home. The officer found that the lights were covered in snow and that there weren’t any footprints in the yard, leaving the deputy to believe the call was unfounded.

A report was made that a woman had been sexually assaulted at a bus stop in Columbia Falls.

A man on the North Ford Road told a deputy that he believed his ex-girlfriend or her nephew had taken all of the money out of his wallet the prior evening.

A man called from Kila to say that his son had assaulted him. The man said he had been trying to evict the 26-year-old. A deputy found the assault charge was unfounded.

A woman calling from South Cedar Drive told an officer that she planned to get a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend after he showed up to her home, got aggressive with her, and then would not leave when asked. A deputy spoke with the man about his behavior.

Whitefish Police were unable to locate a 17-year-old boy who was reported smoking marijuana in a hallway near a restaurant.

An officer searched Wisconsin Avenue for two men who allegedly urinated in a public parking lot.

Columbia Falls Police responded to Fourth Avenue West where a person allegedly called a woman a “crackhead” and other names before running inside a school. A report was logged.

Kalispell Police counseled a man after he called for help after someone left a note on his truck at a real estate office. The note chastised the man for damaging landscape and included several vulgar words, the man complained.

An officer determined that there had not been a physical disturbance, though there had been a verbal one, after a person called from East California Street to report an accident involving two Suburbans. The caller claimed four or five people involved were fighting, throwing beer bottles and exhibiting signs of intoxication. The caller allegedly heard someone yell that the people involved were going to jail because alcohol was involved. An officer filed a crash report.