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LAW ROUNDUP: Can you help me get my iPhone back?

| January 27, 2016 7:12 PM

Whitefish Police took down the phone numbers of an iPhone’s owner and a person who supposedly found the communication device. The owner said that the person who found the phone had called her and told her that the phone would be mailed to her, but the phone never showed up. The owner wanted to report the phone as stolen.

Kalispell Police responded after a worker called to report that a breast pump had possibly been stolen from a social services program that was renting out the machine. The worker could not get the renter to respond.

An officer took a report from a woman on First Avenue East who reported that her ex-boyfriend stole her cell phone, iPod, some jewelry, and flattened her tires. The woman did not have a reliable way to contact the department for follow-up because of her phone being taken.

An officer counseled three boys who were seen throwing snowballs at passing cars as they sat at a bus stop on Sunny View Lane. The boys did not cause any actual damage.

A person found a paycheck in the parking lot located off Hutton Ranch Road. Instead of following the rule of finders keepers, the person turned the check in to an officer, who was able to reunite it with the business that issued the check.

A person on First Avenue West North reported that his or her spurs and spur straps had been stolen.

A security officer took a man into custody for taking makeup from a store on First Avenue East North. The security officer took the beauty crime seriously and cuffed the man before officers arrived.


Columbia Falls Police took a report from Ninth Street West, where a man had lost identification belonging to his two children and his girlfriend. The man thought he might have dropped the plastic bag full of cards in the parking lot of a supermarket, but the store’s management had not had anyone turn the items in.


Flathead County Sheriff’s Office determined that a report about someone being shot at a store in Marion was completely unfounded.

A woman on Silverleaf Drive reported her car as stolen after the person she lent the vehicle to was several days past due for returning it.

A deputy separated a woman and her son after the pair got into a fight at a residence off U.S. 93 in Whitefish. The woman said that her son “went crazy” and hit her several times in the back of the head.

A man who reported his vehicle as stolen a day earlier called in to say that he had found the four-wheeler on Snowline Lane. The vehicle appeared to be stripped down, the owner told dispatchers.

A man called from Middle Road in Columbia Falls to ask what he should do after his roommate was booked into jail for dangerous drugs. The man was worried that there might be drugs in the house. He did not want his roommate to return to the residence.