Law Roundup: You drink, you drive, you lose

Bad driving in front of a police vehicle led to a traffic stop, citation and a visit by probation officers. An officer coming to a stop at the corner of Oregon Street and Seventh Avenue East North waved to let another motorist go first. That driver turned right without using a turn signal. Intrigued, the officer followed and watched as the motorist later took a hard left, failing to yield to oncoming traffic, before parking at a local casino.

After initiating a traffic stop, the officer glanced inside the motorist’s vehicle and spotted an open can of Keystone Light in the center console. The officer also learned the motorist was on probation. While they waited on probation personnel to arrive, the officer warned the driver for a blinker violation and driving without insurance and cited him for an open container violation.

Finding children’s clothes in a stand of trees downtown prompted a passerby, worried he might have uncovered a pedophile’s den, to flag down an officer with the Kalispell Police Department. After taking a look, the officer found no evidence to link the discarded clothing with a pedophile.

A caller told authorities that someone was taking their likeness, editing it onto explicit photos and then posting those on social media. Officers recommended he block the other individual on social media, but the caller replied by saying the photo editor had already blocked them. The caller asked that officers make note of the situation in case he sought criminal charges in the future.

Waking up to find his truck missing, a local man assumed it was stolen and contacted police. He reported last seeing it about 9:30 a.m. and remembered leaving it locked and with a full tank of gas. He had left 9 mm ammo in the vehicle as well.

But as officers began looking into it, he called back with a stunning revelation. The truck, he said, was at a local gym, where he had left it that morning. He said he forgot he had locked his keys in the vehicle by accident and walked home.

Officers met up with a local food truck operator who was concerned about a man on a cart wielding a “deep state is here” sign hanging out around the mobile eatery and making threats. The sign-wielding man said he would hang the operator.

It wasn’t the first time the man, always equipped with signs, had come onto the property and threatened to hang people. In the past, he’d screamed at customers as well. Officers told the food truck operator to call if the man returned.

Another individual on Three Mile Drive reported seeing motorcycles tearing down the street between 9 and 11:30 p.m. each night. Officers headed out to see if they could find any bikers and instead came across a man in a garage housing eight motorcycles. When they relayed the neighborhood complaints to the man, he said he would pass the word along to his roommates. No other motorcycles were spotted in the area.

A caller told dispatchers she was hit with her own tent post while on the walking path.

A woman worried her ex-husband was swinging through the neighborhood and surveilling her and her children asked for extra patrols.

A man with one shoe was reported for harassing employees of a local store.

When the neighbors kept interrupting his sleep by hanging around outside, a local resident decided to ask the police to get involved. Specifically, they had left a truck idling outside his window for half an hour. Officers dispatched to the area described the neighborhood as quiet.

A man locked himself in a park bathroom and refused to come out.