Law roundup: Teenage driver fails to mend fences

After hitting a fence while drifting in a four-wheel drive pickup truck on 12th Street, a teenager allegedly told the homeowner that his mother would give them a call to sort it all out. The homeowner called the Columbia Falls Police Department the next day, letting them know the teenager's parents never contacted them.  

Sick and tired of looking at the same apparently discarded bicycle, an upset resident told dispatchers the police needed to do something about it immediately. He said he first reported the bicycle a month earlier but no one had ever come to take it. He asked that officials reprimand the officer he spoke with, who he claimed "promised to remove the bicycle that day." Authorities later came to grab the bicycle.  

A property owner wanted to get an abandoned vehicle left on his land towed away. Officers put the landowner in touch with a tow company.