Man defends horses against deer

Someone told the Flathead County Sheriff’s Department his son reported a mountain lion on his property. He tried to protect his horses by sitting up in a tree with a gun. He later realized the intruder was just a deer.

Two bears were spotted “knocking over trash cans.” It was unclear whether they were grizzlies or black bears.

A man left his car unlocked and it was stolen.

Another unlocked car had backpacks stolen out of it.

Someone spotted a camper and “thought it was strange” and asked for it to be “checked out.” The caller was “unsure if they were allowed to be there.”

A woman was awoken by “a cat yowling.” She believed the cat had become stuck in the wall of her garage. An officer helped her check her garage but couldn’t locate the cat.

A woman reported two “emaciated” horses with their “ribs and hip bones visible.” She said there was apparently no hay or water in their pen. An officer visited the residence and found no one home, but the horses did “appear to be thin” to the officer. The officer informed the concerned caller he would attempt to contact the horse owner later.

Someone speculated he heard “possible yelling” and what he classified as a “long extended yell.” He also suspected he heard “maybe a heavy horn sound.”

An Ohio caller was concerned because he hadn’t been able to get in touch with his Flathead Valley friends for a week. He was “concerned that the cold snap may have affected them adversely” and asked an officer to check on them. The officer determined they were having telephone issues.

A woman lost $50 in a “phone scam.”

A caller who lives in a school zone reported people were speeding. She said it was happening “all the time, not just during school drop-off and pick-up times.”

A neighbor informed a woman there was someone at her house while she was away and the intruder “possibly ha[d] a drone.”

A woman said her husband’s aunt had been harassing her through social media for three years and she was “finally sick of it.” The suspicious aunt reportedly made numerous social media accounts that the harassment victim continually blocked. Law enforcement left a message for the aunt.

A man said his roommate fired a gun at him, but the suspicious roommate maintained she “fired a gun, but it wasn’t at him.” She was taken to the hospital for a mental health evaluation.