LAW ROUNDUP: Man helps track down suspected thieves

Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies were able to arrest a man after someone called and said that he had followed a Lexus that he had seen in surveillance video taken a week earlier of people stealing from a local business. The vehicle was towed from an Evergreen trailer park as possible evidence.

A woman called from Rockwod Road where she had discovered that nine ice-fishing rods, two shepherd hook candle holders, boxes of ammunition, a marine battery charger and battery had been stolen from her storage shed.

A man called from Montana 82 in Bigfork where he had found a .22 caliber pistol a day earlier. He wanted to turn the gun in to police.

A woman on South Woodland Drive told a deputy that she believed that her daughter might have taken her tablet and $2,000 worth of clothing after finding something incriminating in the daughter’s purse. The woman was counseled about the situation, including the repercussions of going through someone’s purse without permission.

Whitefish Police advised a woman of her options after her ex-boyfriend kept texting and calling her despite warnings that she would contact law enforcement if the harassment did not stop.

Columbia Falls Police asked for a Montana Highway Patrol trooper to respond to Ninth Street West after a patrol car collided with a deer. There was no visible damage to the car.

Kalispell Police responded to Memory Lane where a 15-year-old boy allegedly slammed his mother into a wall, threw her on the ground and choked her. The mother thought the son might have taken some drugs to cause the behavior.

A grocery store reported that a man said he would be right back to pay for $10 in gas, but never returned. An officer reminded him to pay.