Law roundup: Visitors leave the state, ditching friend at jail

A 26-year-old man leaving the Flathead County Detention Center reportedly wanted to “charge his friends for abandoning him” when they took off to Wisconsin, leaving him stranded at the county jail.

An old tan or gold minivan reportedly drove past a woman mowing her lawn about five or six times before stopping in front of her house. The driver allegedly asked her peculiar questions such as, “Are you a lawnmower for a living?” “Are you the [home]owner?” Apparently, he needed to drive around the block one more time before working up the courage to proposition her.  

A property owner calling from Oregon told police a relative checking on their house found a skinny, tan, tattooed man wearing a green hat and glasses sitting on a chair. The man was reportedly too engrossed with his phone to look up. Officers cleared and locked up the residence. They didn’t find anyone inside or see any signs of forced entry. 

A man was spotted throwing things at a woman who yelled at him. 

A neighbor’s reckless friends reportedly backed into a fence on the Fourth of July and left the scene. 

The passenger of a vehicle stopped at a light reportedly hopped out and ran to a bank where he yanked a handful of flowers out of a flowerbed and got back in. Officers left a voicemail for the youth’s mother. 

Someone claimed five or six people were smoking drugs in an alley and that several vehicles were going back and forth from an SUV parked in a lot. Officers didn’t see evidence of drug use, just a person playing with a water gun. 

A father calling from Texas was concerned his 21-year-old daughter might have almost been a victim of human trafficking in Montana. She was offered a job but was not provided with many details about it and expressed feeling “sketched out” about showing up for orientation. The dad didn’t think it was legitimate when he couldn’t find anything online or an address other than a Facebook page with one follower and one post.