Man irked about neighbor’s roaming dog

A man had questions for Animal Control after he complained to the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office about his neighbor’s dog running at large on his property. His neighbor apparently told him he “didn’t move to Montana to tie up his dog.” The complainant decided to put up a camera and provide his neighbor with a copy of the city’s dog ordinance, but he wasn’t ready for Animal Control to get involved.

In another neighborhood dispute, a man said his trigger-happy neighbor “shoots all hours of the day and night.”

A driver apparently fell 30 feet into a ditch in his vehicle, but he said he didn’t need medical help or towing. The situation was turned over to Montana Highway Patrol.

Someone called because he received an email “threatening extortion.” The person who sent the threatening email “seemed to know his information.”

“Transients” were spotted camping under a bridge and one of them apparently lit a fire there. The bridge-dwellers later cleared out their campsites and put out the blaze.

Another “transient” was observed lighting a fire using a guard rail post. It didn’t appear to an “out-of-control” fire, and it was later put out with a fire extinguisher.

A man called to follow up on what he thought was a case of fraud. He believed he had been contacted by Sheriff’s Office about fraudulent checks, and he had heard a woman was arrested in connection with the scam. The man said he had more checks he wanted to be included in the case, but officers weren’t able to turn up a case report related to this alleged incident.

A mother was worried her son was experiencing a mental-health issue and she wanted officers to confiscate his assault rifle. She said “he’s not safe to have it,” but an officer explained they wouldn’t collect the firearm since the son hadn’t threatened violence with the gun or threatened to use it. The mother decided to talk to her son’s therapist about her options.

A woman said her husband was “being mean to the kids so she kicked him out.” After three days, she was worried he was missing because he didn’t have cell service or his high blood pressure medicine. He was located at a Kalispell motel.

A man said he tried to contact the Flathead County Water Board but no one was getting back to him about “no water coming out of faucets.”

A woman at a daycare center complained about her neighbors throwing trash—including cigarette butts and used condoms—onto the daycare property. She said her husband had cleaned the trash up by throwing it back over the fence to the property where it originated, and the woman decided she would talk to her neighbors to try to resolve the issue civilly.

A woman said her sister assaulted her by throwing a glass bowl at her, which shattered. The sister then threatened to “smash her face into the ground” before leaving the location with her 1-year-old daughter in tow.