Law roundup: Jail release plus partying ‘smells like bad news’

A busybody purportedly called the Whitefish Police Department to let officers know she heard a particular individual got out of jail and was partying with people, a combination that she said “smells like bad news.”

A woman reportedly appalled by the behavior youths displayed through the back window of a “crappy little green car” in a drive-thru, called the police to counsel them. She said the youths were “just being terrible to her by making faces.” Opting not to be an example of maturity, she resorted to name-calling, telling them they were “punk kids” and that she reported them to law enforcement.

A train station employee reported a person dressed in black who was allegedly doing wheelies around trees on an electric bicycle.

A woman called officers wanting to report paddle boards stolen from her front yard.

Flathead County Sheriff’s Office received a report from someone who alleged that the person driving next to them pointed a “gun with a laser” at them in Kalispell.

Someone was allegedly detained in a store for stealing cheese.

A concerned Kalispell parent called deputies when his daughter’s friends reportedly sent a video driving past their house and a text saying they were going to kill them. The parent asked deputies not to respond to the residence, not wanting his children “exposed to a police presence.”

A truck hooked to a trailer carrying heavy equipment reportedly caught fire in Coram.

A toothless man wearing a tank top was purportedly screaming at people and “looked like” he was going to hit vehicles with a longboard, according to a call received by the Kalispell Police Department.

A landlord allegedly threatened to kill a woman’s husband and he pulled out a pistol that shoots rubber balls, telling him that he “had five seconds to get away from the truck or he was going to unload.” 

A man wearing a sweatshirt with the hood up, and holding a pool stick, was spotted pacing around a gas station and talking to customers.

A man reportedly took a woman’s belongings and then tried to hit her with his car.

A woman with shoulder-length brown hair, who wore black jogging pants and a T-shirt, was spotted outside a vacant house with a shopping cart full of stuff, trying to get in at the front and back doors. She was gone when officers arrived, but they seemed to know who she was after earlier talking to a woman matching the description.