Law roundup: Man’s nice tan doesn’t earn pass to loiter

An employee asked Kalispell Police Department officers to move along a shirtless man with a “nice tan” who allegedly loitered on the property for two days refusing to leave “unless the cops were involved.” He left to work on his tan somewhere else before officers arrived. 

A man called officers because he reportedly had pictures of a man holding a baseball bat who was pacing in front of his house and thought he was the culprit behind a tire slashing, adding that he caught his wife having an affair.

A man called the police worried that another man who reportedly threatened him over the phone was going to show up to “knock him out” but would confront his wife instead while he was not home. The caller said he had a pistol and was “prepared to use it” if he saw the threatening man. Officers counseled both parties. The caller wanted to file a restraining order. 

A parent called the Kalispell Police Department concerned about the intensity of a man’s stare she claimed was directed at children. She said she noticed the man, who was wearing baggy clothes and had a bicycle loaded with belongings, while dropping her child off at a location over several days. 

Extra morning patrols were requested by a gym where someone was reportedly stealing power to charge a phone or an ankle bracelet. 

Someone called the Columbia Falls Police Department after reportedly seeing a video on the instant messaging app Snapchat where two people were strangling a cat and dropping it from different balconies. The person said one person lives in Columbia Falls and the other person in Whitefish. Animal Control was looking into the case. 

A man called 911 and hung up then flagged down Montana Highway Patrol on Ninth Street alleging that the driver of a white Ford threw a glass at their truck which bounced off the window during a road rage altercation and they wanted to press charges. 

Someone on Second Avenue allegedly blasted music on their portable speaker when the neighbors arrived home to aggravate them. 

Teens were allegedly smoking marijuana in a back parking lot next to a preschool during lunch and after school on 10th Street. 

A pickup pulling a flatbed trailer with equipment on it reportedly had a ramp dragging on the road. 

A woman on Second Avenue reportedly found a pile of children’s clothes in an alley and thought it was odd. She also wanted to report smelling marijuana too.