Law Roundup: Social media helps business identify theft suspect

Whitefish Police Department took a report from a woman on Central Avenue who claimed that a shoplifter had stolen from her business and had been identified on social media. According to call records, the suspect in question had been to the Flathead County Detention Center before for other incidents. 

A woman on Mill Avenue was told to call during an incident, and not afterward, after she made a complaint about people regularly drag racing up and down the street. An officer responded but could not locate the alleged perpetrators.

A welfare check was conducted after a grandmother complained that her young grandson was with his mother, who was believed to be smoking methamphetamine.

An officer reported that he believed a woman was gone for good after leaving on the train earlier in the day with no intentions of coming back. The woman had called upset because she allegedly had been backhanded by a man and received a black eye and a split lip, but did not get the police response she wanted from multiple law enforcement agencies she allegedly reported the assault to.

No one could be found after someone called and reported that there was a fight outside of a bar.

Columbia Falls Police counseled parents after someone complained that they could always be heard screaming at their children.

Officers responded to Terrace Court where a woman had locked herself and two young children in the bathroom because someone had rang her doorbell and tried the door handle in the middle of the night. The woman had a revolver to defender herself, but an officer found everything OK when he checked out the scene. Whoever knocked was no longer around.

A man on First Avenue reported that his home had been broken into. His hidden key had been moved, an unlocked door was locked and another door was left ajar. Thankfully, nothing appeared to be missing. He was counseled about home security options.

Three mailboxes were knocked over on 10th Avenue.

A man left a bar after staff called police saying he wouldn’t leave and kept trying to fight people. The bartender reported that the belligerent man left just as the officers arrived to take care of his problem behavior.