Law roundup: Attentive listener suspects driver ‘up to no good’

A driver believed he heard the sound of kicking coming from the back of a moving truck. He told the Kalispell Police Department the drivers were “Hispanic” and he was “concerned that they were up to no good.”

A man with a knife tried to steal from a North Kalispell store, but an employee recovered the merchandise.

A woman wired $50,000 to a cryptocurrency account after she got an alert with fraudulent instructions on her computer.

Someone thought a teenage girl was “off mentally” and “yelling vulgarities” at younger boys. It turned out she was on the phone with a friend and she was “not doing anything outside of the law.”

A woman drove over a concrete berm and high centered her car. She called the police for assistance and asked them to hurry because she “ha[d] somewhere to be.”

A woman went into a mailroom and refused to leave. Then she harassed people in the parking lot. It turned out she was lost and she was directed to the correct apartment.

A man in his 50s passed out on a toilet at a business. He was woken up and asked to move along.

A man got secondhand information about a suspected transient man talking to children. According to what the caller had heard, the man “appeared to be on drugs.” Law enforcement advised the man they would respond if the suspicious individual actually showed up on the property.

An intoxicated ex-neighbor apparently yelled at a woman about her dogs and left voicemails with her regarding the same issue. The police were able to get the man to stop his complaints for the night, so the dog owner was “happy with [the] outcome.”