LAW ROUNDUP: Reluctant worker has to go home

Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies escorted a woman from a Columbia Falls business located off U.S. 2. The woman had recently been given some time off that was apparently unwanted, since she would not leave her place of employment when asked. The woman left without incident and the employer did not want to file charges.

A door to a residence located off Montana 35 near Kalispell was found kicked in by a resident.

A man on Valley Drive was told how to start the eviction process after someone living on his property in a third party’s trailer was allegedly caught stealing firewood. The man said that the suspects did not have his permission to live on the property.

A deputy found a canned energy drink in the console of an empty, parked pickup truck reported a few minutes earlier as swerving all over U.S. 93 near Whitefish. The reporting party thought the male driver might be drinking beer because of his allegedly erratic motions, which included waving his arms and slamming the steering wheel.

A deputy gave a man a ride to a motel after his ex-girlfriend reported that he had refused to leave her home on Stoner Creek Road. The woman called back a few hours later to file a complaint with the responding deputy’s superior officer. She was upset that the deputy had allegedly told the man he could come home any time.

A trooper was unable to locate a vehicle that allegedly hit a guardrail multiple times but kept on traveling along U.S. 2 near Columbia Falls.

A door was kicked in and tools were taken from a building on Bills Road in Lakeside.

A deputy determined that an argument on Conrad Drive between a woman and her husband was only verbal. The woman called dispatch concerned that she may have physically hurt her husband. Both parties had been drinking. The woman had a 3-year-old child with her during the dispute.

Deputies gave a man walking along Helena Flats Road a ride after he called 911 saying that he needed a ride because he was dying. The man was a violent offender with a drinking problem. An unhappy deputy advised the drunken man that this was the last time the Sheriff’s Office could be his taxi service. If the man had enough money to buy alcohol to drink himself to extreme impairment, he should remember to set some aside to pay for a ride home, the deputy reasoned.

A teenager who was on probation and had pleaded guilty to several felonies earlier in the week left his father a note saying, “I will be back for my hearing in March.” The father was told to contact the company running the son’s GPS monitoring bracelet.

Whitefish Police were asked to perform extra patrol along West Lakeshore Drive, where a woman found that her husband’s truck had been ransacked.

A Columbia Falls Police officer advised a youth about the proper use of crosswalks after a pedestrian infraction on Ninth Street West.

Kalispell Police responded to a drive-through on U.S. 2 where a worker reported that someone left the scene quickly after a cashier denied payment in “fake” money. An officer filed a report. The man later returned with actual money and said that he ran off in a hurry earlier because he was running late to a meeting with a divorce attorney handling a case for his sister.

A man gave a statement from Second Avenue East, where he had been getting Facebook messages from the mother of his child. A no-contact order allegedly was in place because the mother had tried to kill the child in the past.

Three officers were sent to Glacier Circle to break up two drunk men who got into a fight in the middle of a living room. The woman who called 911 said a man was beating and biting her boyfriend. The fight was not loud enough to wake up children in the home.

A poker game at an establishment on West Idaho Street turned sour as three disorderly men allegedly broke a window, hit a door and threatened to shoot a manager before leaving.

A man was counseled about his choice of facilities after someone reported that each day the man goes to get a free meal from a charity organization and then promptly relieves himself in the bushes.