LAW ROUNDUP: Man finds familiar weapons at gun show

Kalispell Police responded after a man went to a local gun show and believed he found three or four of his guns that had previously been stolen in August. The man waited for law enforcement to approach the seller. Sheriff’s deputies and Kalispell Police officers were dispatched, and the matter was handed over to a deputy who had already been working on the case.

An officer could hear no signs of a disturbance on Cooper Lane after a woman reported that her neighbors were disturbing the peace. The woman said she believed that a father was yelling at his daughter. This upset the woman because “it’s not normal to yell at your kids.” The woman said the yelling issues had been ongoing for more than a year, but that this was the first time she called to report it.

A business on Sunset Boulevard reported that it had received a fake $100 bill, but when an officer took the bill it was discovered that the bill was real.

A 1948 class ring was stolen from a location on Airport Road.

A mom did not want to press charges after she used a location-based tracking app to lead officers to Northwest Lane, where the thief of her son’s cellular phone was found. The phone was returned and the mother said she would report the incident to school officials.

An officer helped two men push their car into East Oregon Street after a woman complained about the men yelling at each other. The men explained that the car’s inoperative condition had led them to raise their voices in a small disagreement.

A woman called to complain about a panhandler on U.S. 93. The woman did not have typical complaints about being harassed or worried that the panhandler might be hit by a car. Instead, she was worried that the panhandler might be making $300 to $500 per day and not reporting it to the Internal Revenue Service.

A safe and some steel wool was found in a men’s bathroom at a business on U.S. 93. The property was collected.

A person came home to Mitchell Way after a day at school and had to call Columbia Falls Police. The person found that someone had come into the home through the kitchen window and taken items, included a loaded .357 pistol that was hidden beneath a mattress. The reporting party thought a neighbor might have burglarized the place, because the neighbor was allegedly a known criminal with a history of pulling a knife on the reporting party’s mother.

A woman showed up to the police station to check in as required by an agreement that let her be released from jail pending trial. She then signed a form that she drove to the police station despite having a suspended license, which was a violation of the law and her terms of release.

Whitefish Police were unable to locate a suspected drunken driver after a liquor store worker reported that he had refused alcohol to two patrons who came in staggering and smelling of booze. After service was refused the drunken men allegedly climbed into two separate vehicles and drove off in different directions. The men allegedly swore at workers because they would not dole out more alcohol.