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‘Volunteer from God’ helps the homeless

| August 24, 2020 1:00 AM

A woman reportedly told Kalispell Police Department two “tweakers,” were refusing to leave the room of a homeless man she was bringing food to. She claimed she was a “volunteer from God,” who helped transient people, and felt the pair shouldn’t be there because the man had dementia and people take advantage of him. She was counseled that police wouldn’t remove the people based on the information provided.

Two men allegedly assaulted and robbed another man at gunpoint. The victim then told someone, who called police, that he was not staying and was going to “get them.” He took off in a vehicle on Hutton Ranch Road.

A curious cat may have made the “crashing noise” a neighbor heard coming from a vacant house after officers saw food and water dishes from a window, but nothing appearing out of place and the house was locked. Police attempted to contact the homeowner.

Someone reportedly saw a man they didn’t recognize passed out in a neighbor’s front yard. The man started to wake up and then passed out again and they thought he might be intoxicated or on drugs. The man was gone by the time officers arrived.

Someone allegedly thought a man was living in his sedan because it was full of belongings and he often parked at the location. The man had previously spoken to police before about going there to read during the day.

A shirtless man reportedly walked up to an RV and took a blanket and maybe something else. A building security guard told police a woman told them earlier not to let him around the RV.

An apartment dweller allegedly thought an hour was long enough for a man to be walking around a parking lot, supposedly looking into cars, and called police. The man claimed he was at a rodeo and was trying to find a ride home.

A man was seen sitting on a lawn across the street from a resident who asked officers to check on his welfare because he had reportedly been there for about half an hour. The man was supposedly “a little turned around,” and was “pointed in the right direction.”

A man wearing baggy clothes was allegedly in a parking lot for about an hour, yelling and screaming and then ran away. Officers made contact with the man and counseled him on his behavior in addition to advising him about his warrant.