LAW ROUNDUP: Lovers quarrel over... everything

It was a bad day for relationships, the Flathead County Sheriff’s office discovered Tuesday.

•  A deputy had to tell a man to stop harassing his ex-girlfriend and give the woman back her iPad. The woman’s mother called to report that the man had been harassing her daughter for seven weeks, since the pair broke up. The man said he would return the iPad to the sheriff’s office when he returned from a trip.
•  A deputy answered questions from a woman in Ohio who claimed that her ex-boyfriend living off Bells Lane in Kalispell had two guns she had purchased a couple years earlier. The ex-boyfriend was allegedly a felon. Felons typically are not allowed to be in possession of firearms.
•  A deputy gave a man a ride from Evergreen Drive to a friend’s house in Columbia Falls after he and his soon-to-be ex-wife got into an argument over $200. The deputy advised the pair to separate for the night to end the squabbling.
• A man called from Semper Fi Way in Evergreen to report that his ex-wife’s friends had been following him. The man was worried the friends might hurt him. The man said he was staying at his former mother-in-law’s place and wanted the information logged.
•  A woman on Caroline Road asked if her vehicle had been reported wrecked after friends told her that her ex-boyfriend had crashed. The woman said the man did not have permission to have the vehicle.
•  A man also called from Caroline Road, this time to ask if he could get a lien on his ex-girlfriend’s vehicle. He wanted money back that he paid for her to get new tires. The man was told to go to civil court.

Meanwhile, mayhem continued as usual even for folks who weren’t engaged in lovers’ quarrels.

A man reported that another man he was having issues with had shown up at Silver Leaf Drive with two people in tow. The trio allegedly broke all of the glass out of the caller’s truck and beat in the door to his trailer.

A school’s garage was broken into in Lakeside. Someone found a pry bar that the burglar left behind.

A man was transferred to the hospital for a mental health evaluation after his brother called from inside a closet from a home in Kalispell to report that the man had been throwing a temper tantrum all night and had been punching the wall for no reason.

A man on Whitefish Stage was told how to get a no-contact order after his neighbor allegedly kept beating on his home’s door for no reason. The woman suspected of the harassment denied being involved and the deputy could find no footprints in the snow between the homes.

A deputy told the owner of a saxophone that contacting a collections agency would be the best bet at getting a resolution after the rent-to-own instrument was found in a pawn shop. The renter had stopped payments a while ago, and the issue had already been turned over to a collections agency.

A snow blower that was stolen from a school in Lakeside resurfaced a day later at a pawn shop. The pawn shop did not accept the machine, but did get the suspect on camera.

A man on Beach Road in Bigfork became upset after a deputy gave him a pamphlet that contained information about how to handle paranoia after the man reported that someone tried to break into his front door and tried to access his house through his attic. The man said that he thought the issues might be related to him turning down a job for the Central Intelligence Agency in 1985. The man has reported similar issues before and the deputies determined that there was no new information provided.

A man on East Reserve Drive in Kalispell reported that he came home from a four-day trip and his family’s safe had been broken into. More than $30,000 worth of jewelry was stolen. The man had a suspect in mind. Deputies did not have enough evidence to make an arrest.

Columbia Falls Police responded to Ninth Street West where a brick had been thrown through the window of a courtyard.

A woman called from Edgewood Place to ask Whitefish Police for help enforcing a no contact order. The woman said the subject of the no-contact order had called her twice in the past couple of weeks. The woman did not want the man to go to jail; she just wanted to be left alone.

Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office and fish and game officers responded to Montana 56, where a moose had been hit by a vehicle. The moose had to be put down.

A woman called from Texas to report that she had sent a woman in Libby $2,500 for a puppy, but she had not received the puppy, could no longer reach the alleged puppy’s owner and had not had her money returned.

Kalispell Police responded to Fourth Avenue West, where a church’s phone system was damaged when someone cut the cables to the system.

A man was taken into custody on suspicion of driving under the influence after he nearly hit an officer while driving northbound in a southbound lane. The man had three warrants worth $4,500 out of Lake County for possession of dangerous drugs, driving with a suspended registration, and driving under the influence of alcohol. An $895 warrant out of Kalispell Police Department was also found, for driving with a suspended registration, driving without insurance and speeding.

A person passing by on his way to work reported that he noticed three suspects running away from the intersection of Fourth Avenue West and Third Street West, where all of the windows had been broken out of a vehicle. The owner called a while later and an officer logged a report.