Police decline 'scare' tactics on child

After a man’s 3-year-old child stole something from a store, a concerned dad allegedly wanted Kalispell Police Department “to scare him.” He was advised “law enforcement doesn’t do that.”

A man driving a purple SUV purportedly threw lunch meat onto someone’s windshield on West Reserve and the person didn’t “know why the guy would have done this.”

Someone reportedly found the tires on their vehicle slashed and thought it happened in the last four hours, but believed it occurred more recently because she saw her ex-roommate in the area laughing hysterically.

Police advised someone calling to complain about customer parking issues behind a building because of a beer garden to call back on the non-emergency phone number.

Someone was suspicious of a travel van allegedly sitting for an extended period of time at the end of Iris Court. It was gone by the time officers arrived.

A woman reportedly went to get her belongings and stole $300 out of someone’s wallet.

A teen allegedly went on a “meth binge” over the last couple of weeks and was trying to kick in the door of a residence.

After a woman was reportedly escorted out of a location by officers “for doing drugs or something,” someone found a bag of white powder and wanted police to pick it up.

A woman called police to report a suspicious vehicle with flickering lights inside of it that was sitting on Stillwater Lane for about 10 minutes. A boy was reportedly given a citation and released to his parents.