Drinking and not driving in undies OK'd

Kalispell Police  responded to East Center Street to the report of a 40-year-old man who appeared to be drunk and had come out of his apartment “in his bikini underwear” and got into his pickup truck. The caller was worried the man might drive. An officer found that the man was drinking in his truck, but that he did not have his keys. The officer told him it was OK to remain in the vehicle, so long as he did not drive.

A resident asked an officer to check the surveillance video at a local grocery store, where the resident said someone sent money to India from the resident’s account.

A woman called from Hutton Ranch Road to report that another woman had assaulted her by ramming a shopping cart into her because of a disagreement about a parking space. An officer separated the women.

A man asked for assistance after the Internal Revenue Service allegedly froze his accounts and several checks bounced. The County Attorney’s Office advised the man that he should file a report.

A man was told he could not return to a business off U.S. 93, after a worker reported seeing the man cutting bike locks off bicycles.

A person on Ninth Avenue West reported that two pontoon boats and a kayak had been stolen from a garage. The garage was still locked, the owner reported, and there was no obvious sign of forced entry.

An officer filed a report about an open container being involved after a man and woman were seen arguing loudly in the parking lot of a business off U.S. 93. The woman was seen chasing after the man with a Taser and threatening to deploy the tool. The officer separated the pair.

A woman was told not to come back to a hotel after she allegedly claimed that she was working for the Department of Homeland Security and demanded a free room.

A woman became verbally aggressive with a dispatcher after she asked for an officer to give her a ride out of the county. The woman was told that officers are not taxicab drivers, but that dispatchers would call a proper cab, in the event that the woman wanted one to come and get her.

Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies found a man eating food in the bathroom of a Kalispell business. Staff told law enforcement officials that the man had already been kicked out of the business for stealing sunglasses. The man moved along peacefully.

A Kalispell man reported coming home to two burglars in his home. According to the man’s report, he passed out when the two thieves shoved him aside and “poked him” with a knife as they ran from the home. When he woke up, no one else was in the house but the door was ajar.

A different Kalispell man told dispatch that prescription drugs had been stolen from his house.

An Evergreen teacher called the sheriff’s office after finding a Leatherman pocketknife in a student’s desk while she was looking for some paperwork.

A woman called the county animal control department to request her dog be put down after the dog had recently attacked three other animals.

A driver near Somers reported a woman asleep in a parked car with a cigarette in her mouth.

Whitefish Police Department received a call from a man claiming someone had forged a check under his account number.

A woman reported to dispatch that she was being held against her will at a nearby rehabilitation clinic. She told dispatch that she didn’t want her car to be towed from its location on Lupfer Avenue while she was being held.

A man allegedly walked up to a woman at a Whitefish grocery store, threatened her and told her to move out of town. The incident reportedly stemmed from a disagreement between the woman and the man’s girlfriend.

Columbia Falls Police took a report from Fifth Avenue West, where a man found that his generator had been stolen in the night.