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.
The driver of a black Porsche Cayenne was allegedly tailgating other motorists before passing on a stretch of road where it isn't permitted. One of the annoyed motorists described the behavior as reckless driving. The Cayenne was last seen heading west on U.S. 2.
Barking dogs on Crescent Drive prompted a police response after a neighbor reported four of them making a racket. They told the authorities that they believed the canines' owners were out and about at the time. Responding officers found the area quiet, but left a door hanger with contact information.
Officers warned a motorist about speeding during a traffic stop on Nucleus Avenue.
Getting scratched in the eye by his cat led to a heated argument between a man and his mother. The man wanted to go to the hospital, but was upset he couldn't drive there. Though his mother offered to take him, he refused. Dispatchers could hear a man yelling for an ambulance in the background of the call. The mother told the authorities that he was throwing things around the house, but that wasn't unusual. He typically threw objects when he was upset, she said.