Guilty teens return pilfered pumpkin

A man told the Kalispell Police Department he caught a group of young people stealing pumpkins from porches. The man yelled at them so they returned his pumpkin. The police located the pumpkin thieves and “they were counseled on stealing pumpkins.”

A man found a dog running around outside and then noticed the owner’s house lights were on but all the doors were wide open. He yelled into the residence and got no response, but he told the police he thought he might have heard someone crying upstairs. He said he was “not going up there” so the police checked the entire house and found no one home. The woman later checked in with the police about the situation.

A young woman thought a man was “acting sketchy” and “eyeing juveniles,” but she couldn’t elaborate on exactly what the suspicious man was doing that was so concerning. She and her friends decided to avoid the road where the “sketchy” man had been seen.

The day after a woman bought a brand-new car, a man in a parking lot hit his car door into hers and then followed her around the parking lot.

A neighbor reported a nearby dog for “bark, bark, barking.” The police investigated but found the dog only started barking when their vehicle arrived, and even then, it only “barked a few times.” They left a copy of the city’s barking ordinance on the back gate of the residence.