Law roundup: Looking for love, local single only finds fraud

’Tis better to have loved and lost than to have attempted to find love and been scammed, which is what a local single person learned after doing business with a dating website. They contacted the Kalispell Police Department accusing the online matchmaking service of fraud.

Feeling taken advantage of, a jailbird phoned the police from pre-release in Bozeman to report the use of his credit or debit card while he was behind bars. He recalled signing over his belongings to his ex-girlfriend while in jail. She was supposed to hold onto the items, not use them, he said. Authorities agreed to investigate. 

A woman accused her ex, who she had a restraining order against, of tormenting her by unblocking the previously blocked phone numbers of people she wanted to avoid. She told officers that his name is still on her phone account and thus could change the status of contacts. Her suspicions had led her to decide to get a phone account of her own.