Law roundup: Turtle loses race with brutes

Teens in a blue Toyota pickup and a black spray-painted Mazda allegedly chased and ran over a turtle, which a store employee found dead. The employee complained the youths were giving the business a hard time, stealing beer from the gas station, leaving garbage all around and were unwelcome. Kalispell Police Department officers attempted to contact the registered owners of the vehicles and then later saw about 20 boys in a parking lot who said they didn’t know who killed the turtle.

A woman was doing a child custody exchange with a man who reportedly threw wood chips at her face.

A woman holding a Twisted Tea alcoholic beverage in her hand was allegedly so drunk that when she got out of a vehicle she had to have the child who was with her hold the key fob to lock it.

A woman was reportedly desperate enough for a caffeine fix that she stole a 12-pack Pepsi product and fled in a red Ford Taurus.

Someone, who doesn’t have an appreciation for modern dance, was concerned about a man they saw dancing and gyrating behind bushes and wanted officers to check on him.

A barefoot man walking in a drive-thru line was reportedly “going crazy” and throwing items “aggressively.” He stood at the ordering window and then hiked up his shorts and walked into an alleyway. He told officers, who counseled him about his behavior, that he was OK and was just throwing his Bible around.

Someone called 911 alleging their mother grabbed them by the hair and threw a pan at them, hitting them in the leg, which was bleeding. Parties were separated.

A rock was reportedly thrown through someone’s window one night and they thought the vehicle the person was driving matched their ex-sister-in-law’s.

A woman wearing a blanket was discharged from the hospital but she allegedly didn’t want to leave and stood by a dumpster where security saw her dropping trash everywhere but in the receptacle.

Someone reportedly saw a bone that looked like a human fibula. Officers fetched the bone.

Two men in a white Escalade SUV reportedly almost hit a woman’s husband while he was taking out the trash.