LAW ROUNDUP: Beyond 'hangry' - man kills pig
An arrest was made on Pleasant Valley Road in Marion when someone called Flathead County Sheriff’s Office to report a man with hunting knives who said he wanted to kill a pig because he was hungry. The caller said the man was screaming and “flipping out” and had video footage of him killing a pig. The caller said the man was “about to bust down the door.”
Officers responded to a report of a man who was allegedly not wearing pants sitting on the corner on Mill Street in Bigfork. The person who saw the man said he pulled up his pants and thought the man was “relieving himself.” The man insisted to officers that he had been “clothed all morning.”
The situation was stinky on Airport Road in Kalispell when a property manager claimed there was tenant with “a lot of garbage stacked on her deck and in her yard,” despite being asked to remove it. The manager said the garbage was attracting skunks.
A woman reportedly had a bat problem on Helena Flats Road in Kalispell, saying she found one in her washing machine. The captured bat was taken to the Flathead County Health Department.
A man said another man “chased him down and then punched him,” on Going-to-the-Sun Road in West Glacier.
A bothersome man on Woodland Park Drive in Kalispell was allegedly carrying beer cans and bothering players.
A man was allegedly seen hitting a woman on U.S. 35 in Kalispell.
A woman said someone smashed a window on U.S. 2 West in Columbia Falls.
Whitefish Police Department responded to a call from Central Avenue about five transients with three dogs out in front of a store allegedly “singing and scaring away the customers.” The caller said he or she did not approach them because they were “scary looking.”
A very upset man on Fairway Drive wanted to talk to an officer because he and his wife were allegedly being harassed by a business’s security for sleeping in a rest area or “park and ride” as a “last resort” because the couple had been unsuccessful in finding a rental or place to buy in the area.
Columbia Falls Police Department received a report that an allegedly “high” and “out of control” woman was trespassing on Eighth Avenue East North.
After a panic alarm went off at Glacier Bank, Kalispell Police Department officers responded to the scene to discover no robbery was taking place. Police later learned that an employee at the north end of the building bumped the alarm button by mistake.
Someone told police they found a “money bag” along U.S. 2. Police collected the bag and returned it to the owner.
A shop clerk held a woman in custody after she allegedly tried to shoplift $430 in clothing.
A man told police an allegedly drunk stranger hit his wife’s feet and screamed at her. As police headed toward the scene, the husband reported the stranger was peeing on a fence.
A 13-year-old called police to say a group of teenage boys cut off his little brother at the skatepark, causing the little brother to fall and hurt his elbow. The boy told officers the teenagers weren’t wearing their helmets.
A mother picked up her two sons when someone reported the juveniles were crawling around a front yard yelling about how drunk they were.