Bear spray attack may be linked to theft

Officers from the Kalispell Police Department responded Sunday after a man reportedly hit two people with bear spray on Airport Road. They couldn’t provide many details, but told police they had received a suspicious call earlier in the day that might be linked to the attack.

Shortly thereafter, another man called dispatch from Airport Road, claiming his backpack had been stolen from his car. He said it contained a pair of chef’s knives along with a “very expensive Dungeons and Dragons player’s guide and expensive card packs” in it. He added he was concerned that the man “who was in [the] parking lot bear-spraying people” may have taken it.

On Monday morning, a person called to report a black backpack had been found nearby, containing a “butcher knife.” No mention was made of the Dungeons and Dragons guide, though.

In other news, the driver of a car that failed to negotiate the Flathead County Courthouse couplet Sunday evening was “shaken, but OK,” according to the police log. One of the occupants had minor injuries. The car struck a cement block on the north side of the roundabout and became high-centered. A towing company was called to remove it.

Two severed deer heads were discovered in Woodland Park Sunday evening. Police were unable to locate any suspects.

The manager of a business on First Avenue West reported the return of a man who had been previously banned from the property. The man’s disguise, consisting of a long trench coat and sunglasses, did not have the intended effect.

A Mountain Vista Way resident claimed someone had used window paint to draw anti-Semitic symbols and phrases on her vehicle, along with a rendering of male genitalia.

A Columbia Falls resident called 911 to report a man who was drinking in the trailer park and “throwing his weight around, claiming he was the assistant manager of the park while the owner was away.” Flathead County Sheriff’s Office deputies notified the man’s parole officer of the incident.

A man on Ninth Street West in Kalispell approached a resident’s house on his bicycle and began “asking for diesel.”

A cow was on the loose in Somers on Sunday evening. Officers called the owner, who came to pick it up.

A Kalispell resident said he was approached late Sunday night by a man with blood on his hands. The man, who the caller believed had been drinking, asked for directions to a bar.

A driver on Foothill Road east of Kalispell claimed to have been almost run off the road by an aggressive driver who had possibly been drinking.

A person became suspicious of three vehicles at a storage unit in Kalispell, but police reported nothing was amiss.

A woman called dispatch Sunday afternoon to report that her husband had sat on top of her. When Whitefish Police arrived, the man was at first uncooperative, but finally agreed to leave.