LAW ROUNDUP: Fraudsters make off with six-figure loot

Flathead County Sheriff’s Office advised a man who called from Kila to report that $100,000 in fraudulent charges had been made in his wife’s name on more than 20 different accounts.

A deputy advised a person on how he or she should handle the ashes of a deceased person. The ashes had been in the possession of a former roommate that the caller was not close with. The roommate had moved on, but left the ashes behind.

Dispatchers received a call from St. Louis, Missouri, where a person said that he or she had answered an ad on Craigslist about a piano for sale. The person thought the ad might be a scam.

The front door of an office on Montana 40 West was reportedly kicked in. Sixty dollars was taken. The door was smashed and the dead bolt was broken.

Tools were reported stolen from a construction trailer on Soaring Pines Trail.

A man who was told to cash a check and send some of the amount to a woman in Virginia found out that the check for $2,900 was a fake. The incident was reported to fraud experts.

Two chainsaws and other tools were reported stolen from a shed on Ridgewood Drive.

Columbia Falls Police received a report from a person who saw a girl running along Talbot Road and thought that the girl was too young to be running alone. An officer was unable to locate the girl.

Whitefish Police responded after it was found that potential thieves cut a hole into the roof of a building to gain access to a pharmacy facility. An inventory of drugs was underway to determine what might have been taken.

An officer relayed a message to a woman that trucks would be working near U.S. 93.

A Kalispell Police officer stopped a vehicle and took a gun back to the station so that a husband did not have access to it. The man’s wife was allegedly having an affair with another man. The man called police to report that the wife had said that the husband had grabbed the gun showed up to the man’s house.

A man was told that if he came back to a hotel again he would be arrested for trespassing. The man was found eating the hotel’s breakfast, although he was not a guest.