Law roundup: Caller tries to delay scammer’s vacation

Someone calling the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office from Kentucky reportedly wanted to press charges against a person who got a hold of their credit card account information, changed the password and purchased a plane ticket that was set to depart from Kalispell in two hours.

A strange chemical odor was allegedly emanating from the basement of a rental home in Whitefish during an inspection but the tenants refused to let someone check it out.

A Kalispell man was reportedly swindled by a woman he had been talking to online since July and told deputies he lost more than $100,000 in the summer romance scam.

Someone in Kalispell reportedly received a call from a “friend” who threatened to shoot them.  

 An aggressive boyfriend, who had been drinking, was allegedly given his keys and told to leave a Columbia Falls residence and he responded by banging the door until it broke.

In Kalispell, another aggressive boyfriend reportedly punched a wall and began screaming, yelling and threatening a woman.

A woman allegedly kept texting and harassing a woman in Kalispell who was involved in an accident to ask for money. After the fifth call in one day, she reached out to deputies for assistance.

Someone’s daily commute for the past six months reportedly included driving past a house with four to five blue heelers tied to a tree on a short leash in Marion. The person called deputies with concerns about animal cruelty.

Someone with photos of a Kalispell property allegedly sent the owner “extortion emails.”

A break-in was reported at a Bigfork facility but nothing was stolen.