Stand-up boarder not in distress

The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office received a call about a man in distress while riding his stand-up paddleboard on Whitefish Lake. Deputies were able to contact the man, who was not in any trouble.

An employee called Whitefish Police Department when a belligerent man repeatedly refused to leave the store. The man had moved along by the time officers arrived.

A man fought with his son inside a Nucleus Avenue business, beginning with the man knocking his son to the ground. The two stepped outside to finish the brawl, but the situation had cooled by the time Columbia Falls Police arrived.

A woman called dispatch to report seeing a woman hiding under trusses at the viaduct in Columbia Falls. The caller told dispatch that the woman looked exactly like a woman who had been reported missing on a local television station.

A resident called about a Columbia Falls police officer had been talking on his cellphone while driving. The caller couldn’t identify the officer, but also did not want to leave his name or number to follow up on the matter.

Someone called in three suspicious-looking men who had just walked out of a concert at a Columbia Falls business.

An shoe-store employee called the Kalispell Police Department after a man walked out of the store with new shoes on his feet but without paying for them. The employee was worried about confronting the man because he was carrying a large knife in his back pocket.

A South Kalispell resident called police when seven vehicles lined up in a parking lot nearby. The caller believed the vehicle roundup was some sort of drug activity after watching one person walk from car to car speaking with the drivers.

Someone stole a health inspection sign from a business in Evergreen.

A transient fell asleep in a laundromat, prompting one of the employees to call 911.

Someone destroyed some property at a Kalispell nursing home, including a vehicle window, a mailbox and a bird feeder.

After spending the night at his girlfriend’s home, a man came home to find his house broken into via the back window.

A customer found a “package of drugs” in a restaurant parking lot.

Several people gathered behind a Kalispell business to “wait for money to be delivered to them for a room.” The employee who confronted the group and called Kalispell police believed there was drug activity afoot.

Three people were seen walking around the mall parking lot looking into car windows.

A customer called police when he saw a man in a restaurant who he believed was wanted for robbing a handful of people in a movie theater parking lot.

A man requested police send extra police to patrol his neighborhood after coming home to a damaged front door and a few items stolen from his yard.

A man called police after an automobile shop replaced his six-cylinder engine with a four-cylinder one.