LAW ROUNDUP: Escaped cow charges good Samaritan
Flathead County Sheriff’s Office received a call from Montana 206, near Columbia Falls, where someone had stopped to tell a homeowner that a cow had apparently escaped its enclosure. The homeowner was not home, and the woman wound up hiding behind the screen door of the residence after the cow charged the woman and would not let her back in her car. The cow allegedly munched on a scarecrow as a snack as it kept the woman at bay in her hiding spot. The 911 dispatcher could hear moos in the background. The woman was eventually able to get back to her car, and the owners got the cows back in the pasture.
A man called from Coram to report that his red 1994 Ford Ranger had been stolen over the weekend. Information was logged. A person called from Reserve Place to report that a locked vehicle had been broken into.
A woman on Patrick Creek Road reported that her boyfriend had punched a window out of her car.
A man was taken to jail for drunken driving after someone reported that he appeared to be “completely intoxicated” as he traveled Cemetery Road.
Someone reported that items had been stolen from a home on River Drive in Hungry Horse.
Officers were unable to locate a young man who allegedly hit his girlfriend at a location off Zimmerman Road. The man allegedly had left the emergency room after suffering hallucinations and other symptoms from meth and heroin use.
A pawn shop in Columbia Falls received a chainsaw that was stolen.
A man was given the number to a fraud hotline after he received an online notification saying he had won $1,000. The man said he had already input some information into the notification by the time he realized it was a scam, and thought he might have been the victim of identity theft.
Columbia Falls Police slated extra patrol for Ninth Avenue West after someone reported that his or her unlocked vehicle had been rifled through.
A report of a sexual assault on a 3-year-old child was made
Kalispell Police loaded up two children and called Child Protective Services after someone reported that an apparently intoxicated woman was walking down East Idaho Street with a stroller with two kids in it.
Tires were stolen from outside of a home on Stratford Drive.
A laptop, charging cord, and two rings were reported stolen from a location on U.S. 93.
A woman was encouraged to contact law enforcement if she felt threatened further after she went into a store and found a typed letter on her vehicle that spoke of race problems in America and genocide.