Law roundup: Horse bucks life in the fast lane

A white horse on the loose reportedly avoided traffic by using the bike lane in Marion.

Flathead County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a woman allegedly stealing a panhandler’s suitcase and water and threatening to kill her with a hatchet “if she didn’t have her money” by a certain time.

 A woman walked up to someone’s door asking for an armored vest and gun to “protect herself against fake cops.”

A Kalispell resident voiced concerns about purported “suspicious antics” happening in his neighborhood at night.

Garage sale signs were reported stolen in Hungry Horse.

Kids were allegedly speeding through a Bigfork neighborhood on dirt bikes and weren’t wearing helmets.

Several thousand dollars of damage was reportedly done to a vandalized road grader.

A man allegedly hit a woman in the face and kicked her in the ribs.

A man was reportedly chasing a woman in the road and hitting her.

Two men allegedly showed up at a location in Somers saying they were with the sheriff’s office and were looking for a woman.

Dogs were running afoul of the law. In Kalispell, a dog allegedly killed a chicken and bit a woman and her husband. Later on, someone else calling deputies from Kalispell reportedly punched an attacking German shepherd in the face to get it off of him and the owner ran over trying to fight the man. In Columbia Falls, a vicious dog was reportedly found among chickens and turkeys. 

Someone cleaning a guest’s room in Bigfork called the property manager after their child allegedly found a firearm. The property manager told deputies the guest was “strange.”