Law roundup: Grandma suspects jewel thief is relative

The Kalispell Police Department received a call from an upset grandmother whose granddaughter allegedly found the key to her safe and stole a diamond and gold necklace and a diamond and sapphire ring valued around $2,100. To add insult to injury, alcohol was stolen too.

A man allegedly brought drugs to a location to sell to someone’s girlfriend’s daughter and threatened to kill them, firing a gun. No one was injured. The man took off in a white or tan vehicle. 

Four cans containing about 20 gallons of gas were reportedly stolen from the back of a truck.

Someone reported an RV as abandoned after it allegedly was parked halfway in a driveway and the roadway for “a good 30 minutes.” Turns out a man was waiting for a jump.

Part of a roof was allegedly flying off and someone asked officers if they could block off Main Street so that vehicles weren’t hit by debris. Officers drove through the area and saw chunks of debris had fallen into the parking lot, not the roadway.

A concerned aunt was allegedly looking for her homeless nephew, who was not prepared for the weather, with no luck. She asked officers if they could look for him or knew where he was.

Store security reportedly stepped in front of a white Jeep with two male occupants to stop them from doing doughnuts in the parking lot and was nearly hit. It did not appear from video footage that the driver even saw him in the near blizzard conditions. 

A man requested records from a 1994 case. He was given a case number and told that he would need to contact the sheriff’s office to get a copy of the report.

Someone found a small chocolate lab with a large abscess on its mouth. 

A woman’s dog reportedly broke through ice and fell into a pond in Kalispell. Flathead County Sheriff’s Office advised the dog owner to get off the ice.

A school bus with no student passengers was reportedly rear-ended in Kalispell on Jan. 11.

A Bigfork man claimed people were trying to set him up and would drive by his house and another location he went to.

A Whitefish resident’s extremely drunk neighbor reportedly threatened to shoot their dog when it was in the road.

Someone in Columbia Falls alleged that a dog they got from a shelter was “extremely mistreated and underfed.”