Taking them to cleaners, or just cleaning carpets?

A van with tinted windows and two males inside raised the suspicion of a man on Denver Street after one of the men got out, knocked on the front door and stated he was trying to clean carpets for college. The skeptical Denver Street resident reported to Whitefish Police Department that “the way they were acting seemed strange.”

Later on, police received a similar complaint about the alleged carpet cleaning duo from someone on Minnesota Avenue. The caller said a young man with dark, short hair had shown up at his or her residence before and this time asked to come in and clean the carpets. The caller asked the man to leave when he could not produce any credentials.

An unruly man in his 30s and wearing a yellow beanie, reportedly wouldn’t stop entering a bar on Central Avenue and had been trying to start fights outside — except no one was taking him up on his offer. The disorderly man was also reportedly seen urinating on a vehicle.

Someone wanted to leave their mark on Whitefish in a permanent way. Officers took reports from people on Spokane and Central avenues that several buildings in the alley between Second Street and Third Street had been tagged with graffiti. Photos were taken.

Parties were separated after a resident in an apartment building on Iowa Avenue heard “folks screaming at each other,” from another apartment.

Apparently an intoxicated man’s baggy pants were still too restricting when he was spotted on Sunnyview Lane trying to pull his pants down according to a report from Kalispell Police Department.

It sounded like a police emergency on First Avenue West when someone said they heard a man yelling, “You wanna fight,” a baby “screaming at the top of his lungs” and a woman also screaming topped by sounds of someone stomping around the house. It was later discerned, however, that it was a “dad having a great time with young boys playing” with mom present.

Teenagers were reported driving recklessly when they sped off and reportedly nearly hit a family crossing a parking lot on North Main Street.

A man must have been very hungry for pizza when a report came in from an East Idaho Street employee that the man wrote a fraudulent check for the food and had racked up $400 worth of bad checks in the past.

A white bike locked to a camper parked in front of an Ashley Drive house was reported stolen along with a hunting bow and a deer rack that was located inside the house.

Was it a case of mistaken identity or dognapping? Police responded to a call when a woman on Sixth Avenue West discovered a missing black lab she had been dog-sitting on a website aimed at reuniting lost dogs with their owners. The bad news was that when the woman called the hotline, she was told that “another group of people claimed to be the owners and picked the dog up.”

A man on Ninth Avenue West must have been very upset after he scraped a scab off his dog’s nose and a BB pellet fell out. The man suspected his neighbor had shot the dog about two weeks ago and wanted to speak to an officer.

An SUV-type vehicle was spotted swerving in and out of traffic on North Meridian Road and Three Mile Drive.

A group of people on Fifth Avenue West discovered an intoxicated man passed out in someone’s vehicle. No one knew who the man was, and when he awoke he reportedly tried to fight people. When the group went inside a house the man was outside trying to get in. The disorderly man was later dropped off at his uncle’s house.

A house party on Buttercup Loop was told to quiet down after police received two complaints of loud music.

A disgruntled Grace Road resident called Columbia Falls Police Department to report that the “city is not doing their job,” because it had not “plowed the roads good enough” making it difficult for traffic to get through when people parked on both sides. When the caller asked “if there is anything we can do about it,” he or she was advised an officer would pass the complaint on to the city street department.

A concerned woman on Second Avenue West called police after hearing someone knocking on the door. She couldn’t look outside to see who it was, but when the knocking stopped, it then started up on the back window, then the side door before a “little car” sped off. The woman suspected her ex-boyfriend, who had reportedly done this before, and she already had paperwork for a temporary restraining order she needed to turn in.

Two neighbors on Mitchell Way saw two kids jumping a fence into a backyard and allegedly trying to get into a house before jumping back over in front of the house. One of the neighbors followed the kids to an apartment complex. It was later discerned that no actual attempted break-in occurred.

An intoxicated man on Nucleus Avenue was seen running back and forth — into traffic — between a bar and the opposite side of the street.

A driver waiting outside the police department lobby on Nucleus Avenue told officers that he or she had received threats from another in a drive-up area.

Officers received a report of a vehicle that had “been here awhile with the lights on.”

Kalispell Fire Department responded to a chimney fire on Third Avenue East.