Law roundup: Lounging deer pulls vanishing act

A woman on Ruddy Duck Drive called the Kalispell Police Department because she thought a big buck lying in a neighbor’s yard was stuck. She was also concerned it would jump the fence and land in a yard with kids. Dispatchers advised her if the buck was not injured it was probably capable of finding a way out of the backyard since the fence was about 4 feet tall, yet she still wanted to hear from an animal control officer to find out if it was safe for her to open the neighbor’s gate so it could leave. Between phone calls, however, the deer “somehow vanished.”

A nervous man requested extra patrol in the area where he allegedly saw a woman he hadn’t seen before, sitting in a gray hybrid vehicle “for quite awhile.”

A woman reported her purse was taken from her cart at a store.

A red and black truck blowing black smoke allegedly tailgated a woman’s vehicle.

Someone was under the impression there were drug operations going on in their neighborhood because there was a lot of traffic at one house in particular and asked for officers to do extra patrol in the area. They wanted to remain anonymous out of worry the people would find out and turn their dog loose.

A man allegedly caught in a red shed had returned to the property and was sitting in a car.

A mother in the midst of teaching her child a life lesson, called the police wanting an officer to talk to her daughter after she caught the teen stealing makeup and refused an opportunity to either return it to the store or pay for it. Before an officer arrived, however, the mother convinced her child to go into the store, tell them what she did and pay for it.

An employee with a construction company reported a yellow Cat skid steer loader stolen.

A man who parked his RV at a deadend on Treeline Road had questions about “his right to defend himself” after he claimed to have camera footage of a vehicle pulling up and people trying to put stuff in his fuel tank.