LAW ROUNDUP: Woman almost runs over fighting men

Kalispell Police Department could not locate two men who were reportedly fighting on the ground in the middle of West Center Street. A woman reported that she almost hit the two brawling men. Officers found a witness who said he saw the fight, but that the men had left.

An officer counseled a woman after she tried to break into her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend’s home to retrieve some property that she thought might be there. The ex-girlfriend said that the boyfriend was present at the time of the break-in but he had left by the time an officer arrived. The property the girlfriend wanted was not at the location.

A woman called to report to Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies that her 8-year-old daughter had been punched in the stomach by a fellow third-grader at a Shady Lane location. An officer logged a report.

A man called from outside of Whitefish to report that a vehicle he had loaned to someone had not been returned two weeks after the vehicle was due home.

A deputy came to Smalls Lane in Evergreen to wait for a person who had called an elderly man and told him that he won the lottery. The person on the other end of the line said he or she would come by at noon and collect a delivery fee for dropping off the prize. The suspected fake delivery person never showed. The elderly man was given a fraud hotline number in case further contact occurred.

A man called from Larch Lane to report that he had sold a vehicle and got a notice from the bank that the check someone had used to pay was fraudulent.

A man on East Many Lakes Drive asked for an officer to check for a drunken driver after he returned home and found his mailbox had been completely destroyed.

Whitefish Police Department referred a man to a sergeant after he demanded to speak to the police chief to resolve a problem where his landlord had allegedly threatened to burn down the house he rents. The man became argumentative with the sergeant when he was asked to direct future communication to the officers handling the case. The man eventually hung up on the sergeant.

Officers separated a mother and son on Colorado Avenue after the woman called to report that the 14-year-old was getting out of hand and calling her curse words that correspond with crude references to the female anatomy. The mother said she was willing to hit the offender if she needed to.