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LAW ROUNDUP: Man of many accounts explains himself

| March 18, 2016 5:56 PM

A Whitefish Police officer talked to a man on Lakeside Boulevard after he reportedly contacted a girl with an explicit message on Facebook. The officer asked why the man had 12 separate Facebook accounts and the man allegedly responded that he did not know how to delete the accounts, but he was not using them for solicitation.

An officer took information from U.S. 93 South where a vehicle with dealer plates attached had gone missing. The owner found that the car had accidentally been loaded up and sent to auction.

A girl was taken home from school by her mother after administrators called officers for backup because the girl was being disorderly and hiding from teachers.

An unsteady man seen riding and falling off his bike on Edgewood Place said that he did not need medical attention, though he was scraped from riding the bike in this inebriated state. The man wanted to get his bike to his place of employment.

A man was stopped for driving without a license on Commerce Street. He had an infant in the car. The child’s mother was located. She called later to say that she could not immediately post bond.

An officer was dispatched to Lupfer Avenue where a man allegedly was making a lot of noise in a storage unit. The caller reported that the man was stark naked. She believed he lived in a nearby apartment.

An officer was dispatched to East Second Street where two women found an unknown man in their first-floor bathroom. He was asleep without any pants on.


A man called Columbia Falls Police to report that his 8-year-old daughter was missing after she did not show up to her normal meeting spot to meet her grandmother. The girl was found a short time later.


A woman called the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office from Wisconsin to report that her granddaughter had used her credit card without her permission and had the packages shipped to a male friend on Hemler Creek Road. An officer left voicemails for the suspects.

A woman called dispatch at midnight from Conrad Drive asking that a welfare check be done in regard to her sister’s children and possible drug use in the home. After two calls, the woman admitted she was just trying to get back at her sister for phoning in a similar complaint about her.