Hooligans target home with snowballs

A First Avenue resident in Hungry Horse heard pounding on her home, but looked outside and didn’t see anyone and the pounding stopped, according to the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office. When it started again she called officers back, reportedly saying she heard a “boom” then saw “snow fly” on her house. Officers made contact with two youths who claimed they stopped two other teens from throwing snowballs at her house.

The Sheriff’s Office received a call from Smith Valley School, when a man was seen wandering outside the building before the school day started on Friday and then he walked inside. He reportedly gave an unusual story to an employee, who asked what he was doing, and then the man headed to a gas station across the street. Deputies made contact with the man, who allegedly thought “they gave out cars to use at the school” and may have been experiencing mental-health issues. He was told not to go on school property as he had no reason to be there.

Officers responded to a call about a woman who was allegedly screaming and yelling outside a Conrad Drive residence in Kalispell, then broke a window using a dog “pooper scooper.”

A man called deputies saying he needed help because someone was reportedly trying to make him get into a truck. The man supposedly had no clue where he was, but said he was lying in a ditch, got up and was walking along when the truck came up to him with two men inside.

A strange man was allegedly at the front door of a Dolphin Drive house and was looking in the windows, ringing the doorbell and pacing near the front porch. The person calling in the report claimed the man appeared agitated. He was moved along.

An employee on U.S. 93 in Lakeside called in a supposedly smelly man they described as “a mess” who was found sleeping in the post office lobby and wanted him moved along. The person had allegedly made contact with the man “multiple times now,” and wanted him to leave, never to return.

Someone allegedly threw a rock through the window of a camper on U.S. 2 in Columbia Falls. The person calling in the report had a suspect in mind whom he purportedly had a “beef with.”

Someone told officers they had a video and audio footage on Fifth Avenue in Hungry Horse of people wearing masks approaching the camera and saying something about taking it off or disabling it.

A store employee called the Kalispell Police Department and reported a transient allegedly came inside and when they asked him to leave, he became angry and pulled out a pocketknife. The caller claimed the transient was unconscious and thought a customer knocked him out.

A hotel guest was purportedly passed out on a floor and too drunk to walk after he was told he had one hour to leave.

Someone allegedly saw three possibly intoxicated people who were yelling and screaming profanities by a pavilion and claimed to see one of them holding what looked like a whiskey bottle. Police spoke with a group who weren’t drinking and appeared to be “behaving themselves.”

Someone allegedly went through a person’s vehicle on Second Street and left behind a Pepsi bottle in the front seat. The Pepsi bottle was secured by Whitefish Police Department.

Guests who reportedly checked out of a vacation rental on Bay Point Drive were refusing to leave. The manager advised guests that law enforcement had been called, which sent them packing.

An upset woman allegedly struggled to answer dispatchers’ questions when she reported someone “throwing things at her house,” and claimed to receive a phone call from a man who allegedly said he was going to “kill all of her cats.” The woman purportedly kept rambling about things she had done in the past and became more upset when dispatchers tried to get clarification on what happened regarding the incident.

Someone calling from Mountainside Drive told police a supervisor threatened to “beat his [expletive]” over a discussion of the “Thursday night football game.”

There was “hooting and hollering” heard at State Park Road and someone was concerned that a disturbance of some sort was going on. Two drunk men were located and supposedly denied yelling.