Law roundup: Wine drinker takes road to unhappy hour

Two women in a black Jeep Cherokee purportedly couldn’t delay wine time and pulled into a parking lot drinking from a box of wine. Officers found the vehicle unoccupied with single-serve boxes of wine with straws in both cupholders. The driver allegedly acknowledged drinking and driving and was provided with two options, walk a line or get a ride. She opted to get a ride home.

A man at a self-checkout register allegedly used the cash-back option to withdraw $100 and forgot to take it. When he realized this in the parking lot, he went back, but it was gone. A couple were seen on security camera footage approaching the register and a female swiping the money and putting it in her purse before leaving.

Someone asked officers to check on a man who was covered up and lying on the ground behind a coffee stand. The man was fine, just covered with his “blankie,” resting.

A passerby allegedly described a man with mental health issues as a tweaker who was tearing his car apart, thinking the airbags were bombs. An officer drove by and saw the man sitting in his car. The officer decided not to make contact and potentially escalate the situation, saying if he wanted to tear his car apart, he could because it wasn’t a crime.

A madman with long curly brown hair and a long jacket reportedly chased a woman around a green Suburban, yelling. 

An employee relayed second-hand information that a man with a knife on his person “made a house” at a bus stop and was asking for money and threatening them. Officers found a little disassembled shelter but no people.

A squatter allegedly made someone’s trailer home sweet home in Kalispell.

A dog owner in Kila reportedly gave their dog to a neighbor to care for it and wanted it back to shoot it. The alarmed neighbor called the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office for advice, saying the dog was not a nuisance, or vicious, the owner “just didn’t like owning it.”

A woman left a casino with her winnings but forgot her purse. Someone allegedly opened it to look for contact information and found drug paraphernalia.

The partial owner of a Whitefish condo building called deputies from Seattle alleging the property manager was engaged in fraud.