Street sermon gets quieted down

Whitefish Police advised a group of people about the legal way to deliver their beliefs about “Jesus and the devil” while allegedly telling people passing by on Central Avenue to “be prepared to meet their maker.” The dispatcher noted the group could be heard yelling over the phone. The group members said they would have a “quiet protest.”

Columbia Falls Police checked on a neighborhood and contacted the drug task force after someone called with information about alleged prostitution and “murder rings” going on in the area. There allegedly was a history of drug use from the residence the call came from.

Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks received the carcass of a bear that had been hit by a car along U.S. 2 in Kila.

The wildlife agency was notified when a Coram resident said a chicken coop was attacked by a bear. The caller said the 11 chickens were down to four and that the coop received excessive damage.

Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies provided extra patrol after a man reported someone was drilling into the lock on his storage unit on South Complex Drive in Kalispell.

Deputies informed a concerned caller that while there was a car seat in a parked car, the child reportedly left in the vehicle alone for 30 minutes was nowhere to be seen. The caller said he assumed a child was in the car after spotting the car seat while pulling away. Deputies determined there was a dog in the vehicle, though it appeared to be fine.

Deputies answered questions about a Bigfork resident’s concern over defamation of character after he said “paperwork was being circulated around town that was causing problems” for him.

A Kalispell caller complained about people yelling around a campfire. The caller reportedly heard the people say they would “track down whoever was calling them in and beat them up.”

Officers answered a Kalispell resident’s questions about his rights in “shooting dogs when they are attacking livestock on his property.”