Law roundup: Woof, roof can't be hangout for dogs

A “welfare check” was purportedly requested for a white dog hanging out on the roof of a house. A Kalispell Police Department officer arrived find the dog in a second-story door that opened to the roof with no fencing. A neighbor approached the officer saying they occasionally saw the dog with a puppy on the roof. The homeowner told officers she uses a wheelchair and couldn’t make it up the stairs to retrieve the dogs whose owners were not usually home and left her to watch them. She was advised about city ordinances and that as the homeowner, she needed to keep the dogs off the roof however she saw fit.

A toddler, possibly around 3 or 4, was allegedly left unsupervised in a blue Mustang with skull headlights that was parked in a handicapped spot. It was unknown if the car was left on. The Mustang was gone by the time officers arrived.

A man allegedly seen resting in the grass surrounded by beer cans concerned someone enough to call the police and request a welfare check because he was “dressed too warmly.”

A mattress was spotted on the bypass road.

A student called the police when she reportedly thought a stranger was following her. She said he followed her for at least two blocks and she didn’t see him enter or leave a residence. She said the man looked to be in his 30s.

Three boys were allegedly tipping over portable toilets in a sports field. An officer drove through the area and did not see any toilets tipped over. The person who called in the report complained the boys’ behavior was escalating from “throwing things in the neighborhood,” to rifling through mailboxes and damaging school property.

A man wearing a scarf and black vest allegedly kneeled on the ground screaming, and was possibly in pain. A chamber employee thought he was either having a seizure or was under the influence of drugs. Officers collected some drugs for destruction and requested another unit to take the man to the hospital.

A woman told the police her son was walking on the street by a park when a pit bull boxer mix charged him, snarled and bit his thigh. The dog owner, who was in her garage, heard the incident occur and retrieved the dog. An officer advised her about the city’s “vicious dog” petition and 10-day quarantine.

An occupant living in a camper van reportedly relieved himself right outside the vehicle, which had out-of-state license plates, and someone wanted the man in the van moved along. The person claimed that in the past, “they multiply and start throwing trash around.”

A man allegedly received messages from an unknown phone number saying they would “do something horrible to him,” if all the property a friend’s sister left with him to hold onto wasn’t there when they arrived to the location. Officers provided a civil standby.