Law roundup: Stolen cigarettes and second chances

A woman reportedly kept screaming at hotel staff about someone breaking into her hotel room, knocking over her purse and stealing her cigarettes. Initially, an employee told Kalispell Police Department the hotel staff wanted her and the man and two dogs she was staying with to leave and were happy to give a refund because of her constant berating of staff. At some point, however, things calmed down and staff changed their mind about ousting the guests.

A woman canceled her card after receiving a text message that an order fraudulently placed under a man’s name was ready for pickup. She was able to cancel the more than $300 order before losing any money.

A blonde woman looked “tweaked out” to a store employee who told officers she was acting strange, sitting by cart racks and had a large knife or ax on her that she allegedly stole from a different store. The woman claimed her husband brought her the tools.

A welfare check was requested for a person who was standing by the roadway screaming and trying to kick passing cars.

A father was concerned a man driving a red truck tried to “come on to” his teenage daughter when she alleged the man was watching her and her younger sister playing on a jungle gym for quite a while, and when they walked by, he made lewd remarks and wanted to know her age and name.

A man claimed another man was throwing rocks about the size of a fist at him, hitting him twice and he wanted police to check him out as to whether he was on drugs or mentally ill. The man matching the description of the suspect denied throwing any stones. One of the men did have a large lump and dried blood on his eyebrow that he said he got from a fight with his brother.

Someone was concerned that a man who was reportedly stalking an employee and kept calling her would show up at a location and they wanted to see an officer about it.

A Dodge Dakota with a broken back window was reported abandoned after sitting on 12th Street East for about three weeks. Officers placed a 72-hour sticker on it.

A passerby alleged a church sign was “vandalized” by two boys and a girl when they changed around the letters on a church sign to make a derogatory word then sped away in a vehicle, which the passerby followed and refused to stop pursuing. Officers determined it did not appear the youths caused any permanent damage. The pranksters changed the lettering back to read “Sunday worship” and left information for the church pastor.

A man outside an apartment building allegedly was cussing at a neighbor and trying to get her boyfriend to fight him because she had asked him to stop fighting with his girlfriend in the apartment.

A business owner called police when they kept getting alerts that someone was in the building when there shouldn’t have been anyone there after hours. Officers checked out the situation and located a man with a sheen of sweat on his forehead, who claimed he didn’t hear who the officers were when they arrived, that he was employed there, and that his mother was a co-owner. Officers also located a woman in the office who said she couldn’t stand quickly because she didn’t have any clothes on under a blanket draped around her. The caller said she would follow up with the issue internally.