Law roundup: Suspicious siphoning can't be explained

A woman wanted the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office to be aware gasoline was regularly being siphoned out of her car, typically “at night time” and “usually during a new moon.” She said the activity had been going on for years.

Someone in Columbia Falls discovered there had been an unemployment claim incorrectly filed in his name. Officers were able to contact the fraudulent filer, who said he had already contacted the responsible state entity to fix the mistake. He was warned the Sheriff’s Office would keep track of the case.

A repeat caller asked for help with tax forms. He had apparently called the day before to get help with the same forms issued by a different state.

A stop sign was knocked down in Columbia Falls.

Someone in Kila said he was “concerned something not right is going on” because he noticed a number of campers and trailers moving onto an open lot nearby.

A woman thought she was hot on a case inspired by a Facebook post. She told the Sheriff’s Office she had seen the suspects half an hour before calling law enforcement. However, it turned out the officers on the case already had the identifying information the caller provided.

A patron at a bar said there was “suspicious activity across the street.” He told the dispatcher he was “afraid to go home” and he didn’t “know what to do.”

A man noticed several hundred nails had been strewn all along a roadway in Evergreen. He said he would stay in the area to warn other motorists. The caller then helped an officer clean up the nails from the road.

A Kalispell homeowner said he saw tracks from an all-terrain vehicle on his property, and he believed the trespassers were his neighbors. He acknowledged “he ha[d] no way to prove it was them at this time.”