Law roundup: Manager wants to solve cold case

A general manager called the Kalispell Police Department alleging that someone entered the property, graffitied the area and destroyed a pump in the mechanical room, shutting down the heating system. The manager believed it was an ex-employee who had called asking if they were cold.

A Realtor went to show a property and reportedly found a bearded homeless man inside, who left. The Realtor said they didn’t know how he got in and reported being scared to go inside for fear of running into more squatters. 

Dad-of-the-year reportedly borrowed his teenage child’s truck and unloaded a bunch of bicycles, carts and items from it, but left behind a meth pipe and a box of “PODP.” The man told police the “marijuana PODP” items were his but the rest of the property belonged to transients at a motel where he was a security employee. An officer recommended he “clean up who he was hanging out with.”

Meanwhile, in another part of town, mom-of-the-year allegedly texted her daughter that she was going to “bust every window out” of her car. 

Someone allegedly saw a white Suburban parked by a drive-thru full of people smoking crack. They told police there were four people with pipes and a female driver with bluish hair. 

An employee was suspicious that it was not a physical issue but a drug-use issue when a man and woman with curly purple hair who purchased metal straws went into the unisex bathroom multiple times for 10 to 15 minutes.

The driver of a white truck reportedly dumped brown trash bags on the side of the road. When officers caught up with the alleged litterbug, he said he went to pick up the trash, which was not his, but “realized it would be too light and would blow out of the truck,” so he left it. He said he would pick it up on his way home and was “very upset” with the person who reported him and with police for pulling him over.

A Sig Sauer P320 in a small plastic holster was reported stolen from the center console of an unlocked truck. The gun was a gift from the owner’s brother and was valued at around $500.