Flag flap was a misunderstanding

Whitefish Police Department received a call from someone who said he was headed over to the viaduct to tell someone to right a flag that was flying upside down. The caller said this was disrespectful. The man was advised to stay away. Officers spoke with the owner of the flag, who explained that a clip had broken and repairs were planned.

Someone complained of a transient with a guitar being vulgar and making customers walk away from a bar on Central Avenue.

A woman called for backup after she was paged to the front of a grocery store by a man in his 60s who called her a jerk and then informed her that he had hit her parked car in the parking lot. Damage was minimal, an officer noted.

Columbia Falls Police Department booked one man and released him after a school principal called for backup because two parents were fighting in the parking lot.

A man agreed to leave for the night after a landlord reported that he had not paid rent for a residence on Fourth Avenue West.

A man called from 11th Street West to report that someone had graciously driven his wife home from a night of drinking, but also possibly made off with a 9 mm Glock that was supposedly in the vehicle before she left but not there when she returned.

Kalispell Police took someone to jail from a location on Seventh Avenue East after a couple reported a drunken argument in which one person pushed another person down. Allegedly, someone at that point got stabbed with an ice pick.

A man and a woman refused to press charges against each other after they were reported to be fist fighting in the parking lot of a gas station.

A man was moved along from a location on Seventh Avenue East North after he allegedly threatened to beat up workers at that location. The drunk man came back again, and officers shooed him along once more.

An officer was unable to locate a suspect on Eighth Avenue West, after a man called to report that two individuals had tried to break into his vehicle before they were caught. The man threatened to shoot the suspects, but did not fire a gun. The officer found that nothing had been taken.