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Law roundup: Man pays $2K in alleged warrant scam

by Daily Inter Lake
| February 4, 2024 12:00 AM

Someone in Columbia Falls might have fallen for a scam after reportedly paying someone $2,300 who called him claiming to be a police chief and instructing him to go to a “bond teller” to get the money because he had warrants out for failure to appear. Once he paid, the caller immediately hung up, which made him suspicious it was a scam.

A man was reportedly yelling about having a gun and sending people to hell in Kalispell. The man told Flathead County Sheriff’s Office he was upset that people he used to know in the area had been evicted, but he denied yelling about having a gun or harming people.

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