Despite claim, no bivouac in backyard

A woman said a Whitefish Police officer was crazy, but that she was not, after she called from East Fourth Street to report 17 military personnel were running around her backyard, making her very upset. When the officer showed up she demanded that the officer remove “the corporal” and “all the kids,” but then said that she knew the officer was with the military personnel. The officer tried to have a conversation with the woman, but she became upset and demanded that he immediately leave the property. There were no military personnel found in the area.

An officer responded to U.S. 93, where a woman reported that her boyfriend was drunk and getting into his car to drive. The woman explained that the situation had escalated and gotten out of hand after the boyfriend broke into the couple’s home to steal a dog.

A woman was booked into jail and held overnight after she showed up at friend’s house on East Second Street drunk. The woman said she had hit someone and had a car that looked like it had crunched against something. The friend called police for help after taking the woman’s keys.

Kalispell Police Department rang in the new year by chasing down many calls of possible gunshots that turned out to be fireworks. There were also many complaints about fireworks, with people wanting other folks to tone down celebrations so they could get some sleep. A woman on Sixth Avenue West said it was her right as a taxpayer to see her neighbor’s festivities shut down. Another person on Northern Lights Boulevard reported that her service dog was frightened by all the blasts at midnight and had run off. The dog had made its way home by 1 a.m.

A mom on Liberty Street called for guidance after her daughter returned her car with some items of drug paraphernalia. The woman brought the items to the police station.

An officer found a couple of suspicious vehicles at Lawrence Park at 11:30 p.m., but found that the owners were not up to anything more malicious than enjoying a nighttime sled. The officer told the sledders that they could stay so long as no drinking, partying or other illegal activity was going on.

New Year activities were especially festive for one downtown bartender where shortly after midnight a patron came up to him and threatened to kick his behind. The aggressive man left the bar before officers arrived.

A woman on Fourth Avenue East used her medical pendant alarm instead of her telephone to get the police’s attention after someone banged on her home’s deck. The woman did not want anyone to respond. She only wanted an officer to patrol the area.

A woman on Woodland Park Drive reported that her son had been assaulted in a bar on the east side of town. The woman said her son was bleeding from the head and had been hit from behind. An officer responded and upon arrival, saw a vehicle hit a police vehicle.

A woman was kicked out of a hotel on U.S. 93 after a worker caught her behind the lobby desk. The woman allegedly told the worker that she was trying to make her own room key. An officer helped remove the woman.

Six officers were sent to North Main Street where a fight had broken out between 10 or 15 people. An officer filed a report about the incident.

A man said he was going home to write a letter after an officer found him pacing in a parking lot on Third Avenue East North, after receiving calls about someone in the street yelling about a gun. No gun was found at the scene.

 A woman on Fifth Avenue East called for backup after two drunken neighbors knocked on her door asking for help. One of the neighbors was a woman who said that the man with her had tried to attack her. The other neighbor was a man who said that the woman had tried to cut herself. An officer found that the woman knocking on the door was a diabetic who was having blood sugar issues after drinking alcohol. The officer took her directly to the hospital emergency room.

Flathead Electric Company sent out a lineman to sturdy up a power pole after the pole was hit by a driver on Seventh Street West. The driver refused medical transport. The collision took a chunk out of the pole, knocked loose a support wire, and left lines down on a woman’s property.

An officer helped a person leave a business on North Main Street after the person used excessive vulgar language.

A delivery service told a woman on East Nicklaus Street Avenue that a desk had been delivered to the residence earlier in the day, but when she got home there was no desk to be found. The woman believed her package had been stolen.

A person staying at a hotel off U.S. 93 found that a snowboard and a drill had been taken from the back of a truck during the night.

A person on Fifth Avenue West reported that a package worth $550 had been taken from a porch a few days earlier.

A mother was very upset after receiving phone calls about her daughter being drunk and rolling her truck. The woman was told that her daughter had been involved with a slide-off on Hart Hill, where the truck went through some barbed wire. The mother wanted to retrieve her daughter, but the young lady was already in the custody of an officer after resisting investigation. The officer took the daughter to the hospital.

An officer was unable to locate parties involved in a disturbance on North Meridian Road. A caller stated that he saw two male neighbors carrying a female neighbor back to her truck. The female neighbor was allegedly tied up and screaming.

A woman left an officer off Empire Loop after she told officers that a dispute was only verbal, contrary to what she had relayed to a friend who called 911. The friend who called 911 said that a man in the house had pointed a gun at the woman. When the woman called 911 she asked for help because the man was upset that he could not find his gun. Someone could be heard screaming “he’s hurting my mom!” in the background.

A man called from a store on North Main Street to say that a guest by the name of Sofia Vergara, the same as a famous movie actress, was staying in Room Five or Room Seven of a local hotel. He wanted to warn the woman not to leave her room and said that the police department could check with the Department of Homeland Security about the situation. Hotel management said that the man had been by earlier with the same warning, but that there was no one staying at the hotel under that name.