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Snowboarder contemplates revenge for skier

| January 26, 2016 9:04 PM

A security worker called Flathead County Sheriff’s Office after a skier and a snowboarder allegedly got in a collision and did not let bygones be bygones. The person who got hit posted a message on social media offering a reward for any information about the other person involved in the accident. The security worker was concerned because the post said that the person wanted the unknown skier to “get what they got coming.”

A deputy gave a man advice about what his options were in regards to setting up a parenting plan for a 9-month-old child. The man was concerned because the child’s mother was allegedly drinking alcohol, though she was breast feeding the child.

A man called from Arcadia Way in Columbia Falls and was told to call back after he confronted his co-worker about possible embezzlement. The man said that he suspected his company’s co-owner might be taking funds from the business to start another business endeavor.

A father called from Essex to say that his son had stolen money from a business. The teen was ready to return the money. A sheriff’s deputy said that the teen should return the funds.

A man on Harmony Court in Kalispell reported that he heard suppressed gunfire shots earlier in the day. The man was told to call back immediately if he heard shots again.


Columbia Falls Police logged a report after a cashier received a fake $10 bill at a business on Ninth Street West.


A man called Whitefish Police after he walked into a business on Wisconsin Avenue at 10:45 a.m. and found that no workers were around. The man tripped an alarm. The owner was contacted and said she would handle the issue.  


A Kalispell Police officer determined that a man had acted bizarrely, but had not done anything criminal after he was reported as driving with his caution lights on while traveling U.S. 2. The man, the vehicle’s sole occupant, was allegedly waving his arm and hanging out of the car’s window. The person who called 911 reported that papers could be seen flying out of the car. The man was then observed in sunglasses, dancing in the parking lot of a grocery store, with both doors of the car open, with music blaring. An officer arrived and checked in with the store. An employee verified the strange behavior, but said that the man left without incident when store workers asked him to leave.

A man was told that he was no longer allowed at any Kalispell branches of a coffee chain after he showed up at a second location, harassing staff after being told not to come to another one of the store’s location’s because he was harassing staff.

A man was told to stay out of traffic traveling along Second Street West and 10th Avenue West after he asked to borrow someone’s cell phone because he needed emergency help. The intoxicated man said he had been kicked out of a government facility for veterans and that he had lost the lenses to his glasses.

A person on Liberty Street reported that a friend’s home appeared to have been broken into. The person noticed that a door jamb was broken and the door was ajar. The friend was not home. An officer left a note for the resident to call if anything was amiss.

A woman was upset after someone took her credit card on an unauthorized spending spree. She found that someone had spent $2,600 at a downtown clothing store.

A woman called from a gym where someone had broken in and taken off with a cabinet. The woman said break-ins have been an ongoing issue. In a previous instance the gym was broken into and someone left a pile of human waste on the floor.


Marion Ambulance was dispatched Tuesday evening to a victim who reportedly suffered wounds from shotgun pellets or birdshot.