Law Roundup: A campaign sign switcheroo

A man called the Columbia Falls Police Department after his wife allegedly told him a suspicious man “ripped” a political campaign sign off a chain-link fence in front of a nonprofit on Fourth Avenue and threw it in a dumpster. A neighbor retrieved the sign and placed it on her fence directly across the street. An officer advised him that the man would likely say the sign was removed due to a lack of permission to hang it up versus a personal political agenda. 

Someone was uncomfortable with the presence of people who purportedly looked like “gang bangers” who were hanging out by a black vehicle with no license plates parked on the side of the road on Second Avenue.  

Two boys were reportedly recorded by a doorbell security camera opening the screen door of a Sixth Avenue house and saying, “This one hasn’t been renovated,” when they noticed the camera and ran. Officers located the boys and counseled them on their behavior with plans to speak to the homeowner about the outcome. 

A woman let her dog outside when two chihuahuas lying underneath a tree in her front yard allegedly “came after” the canine which chased them off without incident. The homeowner told officers the owner of the chihuahuas had previously been advised they would be ticketed if there was further contact with the dogs off their property. 

Someone went to the police department for advice on what to do about someone who was upset that they had failed a background check. 

Someone reported the driver of a blue F150 allegedly had an open container in a parking lot on Nucleus Avenue but hung up when the dispatcher asked for their address. 

An Australian shepherd reportedly bit a woman walking on Eighth Avenue. 

A man reportedly tried to fight someone on Nucleus Avenue and left in a blue Hyundai.