Law roundup: Property feud goes back three decades

Fed up with a longstanding feud with a neighbor, a resident asked the Kalispell Police Department to intervene. They accused their neighbor of regularly trespassing on their land for about three decades. Finding the neighbor out back the day prior, they told him to leave. He refused to go and started laughing, they said.  

A Helena resident phoned the police in Kalispell after their son-in-law's ex-girlfriend had buried them in a slew of calls and text messages. They initially reported the alleged harassment to authorities in Helena, who recommended they contact Kalispell to see if they could contact the estranged woman. After speaking with officers, the woman agreed to never call the Helena resident again.  

Kicked out of a relative's home, a woman asked for police help in retrieving her vehicle. She said she left it in her relative's garage and their vehicle was blocking it. She suspected they were disinclined to move it for her. Authorities arranged a time for the woman to collect her belongings under the watchful eye of officers.  

A woman who fled through Depot Park clutching a can of soup was later cited for trespassing.  

After loaning a homeless person her vehicle with the caveat that he could not drive it around, a woman was annoyed to discover he had taken it for a drive. She told officers she had given him the vehicle to stay warm. Officers contacted the homeless man, and he agreed to meet up with the vehicle's owner in the parking lot of a supermarket. 

Someone living on the top floor of a building told officers that a man outside was threatening to slash their tires and kick down their door. They said the man believed a woman was inside the apartment. Officers arrived to speak with the man.  

Someone found a bag containing what they suspected was methamphetamine in a parking lot. Officers collected the bag.  

Investigating a report of two guns, described as a small pistol and a revolver, allegedly tossed into a dumpster behind a house, officers discovered that the weapons were broken toys.  

Several people reported seeing a man in a ditch near a golf course and requested welfare checks. He appeared to be in his 20s and onlookers were unable to discern whether he was sleeping in the shade or injured. Officers met up with the man, who was fine.  

Finding a dead cat near her minivan, a woman phoned the police. Officers let her know that they do not pick up dead animals and she agreed to dispose of it herself.  

Tired of listening to a man "cussing up a storm" while drinking beer out front, the owner of an oil change station asked officers to bar him from the property. The man departed after officers let him know about the ban.  

Officers investigated a man after someone reported him driving around a neighborhood. The caller told officers that they had never seen the man before and he appeared to show particular interest at some of the new homes going up in the area. Using the license plate information, officers saw that the registered owner had no prior theft convictions. They also noted that no one had reported items missing from any of the area construction sites.  

Officers counseled a man for allegedly cursing at people and hurling racial epitaphs at a Venezuelan family that had recently moved in nearby.