LAW ROUNDUP: Deputies can't help tax-time blues

A woman called the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office from East Evergreen Drive and said she was not happy that the place that had done her taxes the past four years was not taking her calls. A deputy explained that her concerns were of a civil and not criminal nature. The woman was displeased with the deputy’s answers to her questions.

A man who had reported a handgun stolen from Wilson Heights called dispatch and said he had found the gun in a box of car parts. The man thought the gun might have fallen from his coat pocket without him knowing.

A man and a woman had to abandon their car after a Columbia Falls store worker called dispatch after the woman tried to use a credit card. The woman left the store without her items or paying when asked for identification. A deputy stopped the car the woman was seen getting into and found that both the male driver and the woman did not have licenses to drive.

A deputy answered a woman’s questions about her legal options after she said her ex-boyfriend kept contacting her, her roommate and numerous family members after she asked him to stop. The woman said she did need to get a Dutch oven back to the man, but otherwise he needed to leave her alone.

A deputy found that an ice fisherman with a headlamp was fine and casting a line after someone called concerned about a light coming from the middle of McWenneger Slough.

A man was arrested on an outstanding warrant for possession of dangerous drugs at a residence on Stoner Creek Road in Lakeside.

A deputy was dispatched after a woman reported that her “baby daddy” was trying to break her door in. The woman did not want to pursue charges, but she did want the officer to tell the man to not come back to the residence. The woman was advised that a no-contact order might be in her best interest.

A deputy made sure a man left an Ashley Lake Road residence for the night after he and his wife got into a drunken shoving match with their 2-year-old in the home. The woman’s eye was injured in the altercation.

Kalispell Police talked to a worker at a store on Hutton Ranch Road who said that a woman posted on local law enforcement’s social media pages as a suspect in the burglary of a dairy business had also taken items from the store.

A man was taken to the Flathead County Detention Center and his car was released to his mother after two passers-by said he was slumped over the steering wheel of a vehicle parked near the intersection of Third Avenue East and 14th Street East. The people who noticed the car tried to knock on the window to get the man’s attention, but he did not respond. The people who called in said the car had been parked and running for a couple of hours.

Whitefish Police tagged a vehicle on Central Avenue that was parked illegally and impeding a driveway so that people could not pass.