Law roundup: Flying high with stolen credit card

While a thief may have gotten away with leaving on a jet plane by using a credit card to fraudulently purchase flights from Billings to Houston , they probably don’t know when they’ll have another stolen credit card number to get back again. The charges added up to $5,000.

A large group of sun protection zealots with expensive taste reportedly went into a store, selected several pairs of sunglasses and left without paying. The manager told the Kalispell Police Department that the sunglasses have a value of more than $4,000 and there was security camera footage of the shoplifting incident.

A woman allegedly woke her brother up for work and was greeted with a push. When she said she was calling the cops, he slapped her in the face. Officers spoke with the distraught woman who was also very upset that he threw her puzzle.

A woman’s lime-colored tricycle was reportedly stolen in front of her house and was being sold on Facebook.

A man called officers from work on behalf of his wife who was allegedly out shopping with the children and the oldest, a 14-year-old, refused to get out of the vehicle and he wanted an officer to go out and help her. Parties were counseled.

Someone went to investigate the source of a loud bang and went outside to reportedly find seven to eight panels of damaged vinyl fencing.

Someone saw two women passed out in a vehicle for quite a while so they started their loud truck which jump started the pair who then left.

A man, who sounded like he had been drinking said he needed the police, claiming he didn’t know where he was and that he was attacked in his home when the call dropped. He called back using 911, saying he couldn’t open the door and requested an ambulance for chest pain and numbness in his arms and legs adding that there wasn’t an assault.

Someone complained about a couple of performing panhandlers, one of who was playing the violin and the other, watching over children, because it was causing traffic to back up.

An employee allegedly found a phone she believed belonged to a customer who stole from the store. When the customer returned asking for her phone the employee refused to return it, which set her off into a frenzy of screaming, fighting and biting the employee. One juvenile was taken into booking and to the emergency room for a mental health evaluation.

A man allegedly called the police to report that a guy in a wheelchair by Depot Park had a gun and hung up. Officers spoke with someone by the park but were unable to determine if anything the man had in his hand was a weapon. What they were able to determine was that the man is not friendly toward law enforcement.