Extra patrol requested at airport
Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies provided extra patrol at Glacier Park International Airport after airports statewide were notified of an alleged threat directed at Missoula International Airport. There was no indication of a threat and no incidents reported at the Kalispell airport.
A man hunting along the North Fork called to report he may have found a possible grave. The U.S. Forest Service exhumed the grave and discovered a dead yellow lab. The dog was reburied.
A man in Columbia Falls waited for deputies after children allegedly threw a rock at his car’s windshield while he was driving along U.S. 2. The caller said the children shattered the window so badly that he couldn’t see well enough to drive.
A man called deputies after allegedly discovering a stranger in his car in Columbia Falls. The stranger allegedly said he was “from out of state running from the police.”
Officers arrested a man for alleged reckless driving after a witness told officers they watched the man drive along the railroad tracks off Flathead Drive in Kalispell. According to the witness, the suspect’s vehicle slid partially off the tracks, which left it stuck along the tracks. The vehicle was towed off the tracks and no trains were scheduled to cross the area until the next morning.
An employees at a Whitefish business told Whitefish Police that two teenage boys walked into the store, took a bottle of wine off the shelf, and drank the entire thing in the store’s bathroom. Though attendants said they didn’t see the boys take the bottle, the incident was allegedly caught on camera. Employees also said they could smell alcohol after the alleged event.
Officers reminded several people of the city’s open container laws after someone reported three people were sitting in a park in flannels drinking a six pack of beer.
A woman told officers that her ex-boyfriend sat outside her house and was allegedly texting her to join him outside. She told officers she broke up with the man after they dated for a week and that he allegedly called her 37 times within a half hour.
A resident called Columbia Falls Police to report a camper had been knocked off its blocks and that there were car tracks in the yard leading to the camper.
Someone on South Veterans Drive in Columbia Falls called the police to ask for help after they found a bear was in the trash, again. The caller asked if someone could move the animal along before the trash pick-up service arrived.