Man test drives vehicle never to return

Kalispell Police Department received a report from a woman who allegedly allowed a man to take her vehicle for a “test drive” and he never returned. She claimed it had been a month since he took the car for a spin and kept making excuses for why he hadn’t returned it. She wanted deputies to contact the man. The vehicle was recovered.

One can imagine a person who called police on two youths was probably shaking their fist in the air at those darn kids after they allegedly woke up to the sound the boys skateboarding and playing music on a “boom box” late at night. The person was concerned the possible 12- and 13-year-old “were on drugs” because they supposedly were “not dressed for the weather” and weren’t wearing jackets in addition to one of them not wearing a shirt. Police made contact with the boys who lived in the area, were OK and said they would turn down the music.

A woman was concerned for the safety of a man seen using a cane and walking on U.S. 93 North. The woman claimed he didn’t even seem to notice that he was wandering into traffic. Police made contact with the man who claimed he was walking home from hospital. Officers dropped him off at his home on Seventh Avenue West North.

An employee was suspicious of people who reportedly kept coming into a restaurant and joining other individuals sitting at a table where they would exchanged money and leave.

A man purportedly smelled what he thought was methamphetamine possibly coming from one of the apartment complexes on Rosewood or Glenwood drives.

A casino employee needed assistance in regard to a man who kept “coming and going” all evening, rambling and bothering customers. The man claimed he was homeless and asked the employee to call the police but didn’t give a specific reason why. Apparently, the man wanted directions to a motel and officers advised him to stay of the property.

A teen was allegedly released to his parents after shoplifting beer.

A woman locked herself in a car and called police after reportedly being attacked by another woman with scissors while trying to move out. The caller alleged the woman was a drug user and had been having hallucinations for the past few days. Parties were separated and police noted both had minor abrasions and neither wanted to press charges.

A woman alleged her boyfriend came home in a “drunken rage” and threw items at her and then smacked her on the hip when she went to pick them up. Parties were separated.

A woman, who was purportedly slurring her words and talking a mile a minute,” claimed she and her roommate got into an altercation the previous night and the roommate left, but the friends didn’t, who were in the basement refusing to leave.

Someone alleged a drunk man with a dog kept walking up and down hallways harassing residents. The person also claimed he hit his dog with a cane. The man then called 911 to complain “they” were trying to kick his dog out of the building and didn’t know why they were trying to do that. Police made contact with the intoxicated man who planned to stay in his room for the remainder of the day.