Stolen traffic cone quickly recovered

Occupants of an SUV reportedly stole a traffic cone from a line-painting crew on a road. The thieves were counseled by the Kalispell Police Department and returned the cone about eight minutes after the thievery.

A man in his twenties who “did not look sober” parked a car with a “police interceptor” sticker on the back, then rode a longboard away from the car. Someone who watched this take place called the police to make sure the skateboarder hadn’t stolen the vehicle.

A man suspected his neighbors of dealing drugs because he didn’t think they were working, but they nonetheless had “large amounts of cash.” He admitted he hadn’t seen either of the neighbors in possession of any drugs, but he said one of the suspects “had been showing signs of drug use recently.”

Someone reported dog waste in an overgrown yard. An officer investigated and reported “I did not see nor smell any waste.”

A woman nearly ran over a man during a break up and drove all over his belongings as well. The man, in turn, threw an oil canister at her vehicle.

Someone noticed a diamond ring had apparently been stolen from their home “sometime between April and June.”

A woman found two dogs at large and tried to keep them in her backyard, but one of the dogs apparently started digging its way out. The dogs were soon returned to their owner.

Two women in a small gray car appeared to be throwing items out of the vehicle.

A driver was suspicious when he saw fellow motorists towing a four-wheeler with a chain. He thought the situation was “odd” and the other drivers told him the four-wheeler had been stolen from them “so they were stealing it back.”

A woman told KPD her 50-year-old son went outside and then she couldn’t find him. She confessed she hadn’t tried to call him before calling the police, so she decided to start there and she got ahold of him. It turned out the woman deals with mental health issues.

A man called to report a sexual assault that he said took place at a Kalispell motel in 2003. The dispatcher informed him the hotel in question hadn’t been built until about a decade later. Upon hearing this, the caller claimed the event might have actually happened in Eureka or Whitefish, and then he hung up.

A confused accidental caller told a 911 dispatcher she was playing outside with her “90-pound puppy” and accidentally called the police. Then they called back and she sounded distorted because “she had her phone case on backwards.”