Law roundup: Trouble bruin in Somers home

Hearing a slamming noise and voices coming from the downstairs about 2 a.m., a woman staying at a relative's home in Somers armed herself with a knife and phoned the Flathead County Sheriff's Office. While waiting for deputies to show up, the woman listened and barred her door as someone — or something — thudded around in the building's lower levels. A moment later she told dispatchers that she had put down the knife. The intruder turned out to be a bear, and it had run off. 

A passerby tried unsuccessfully to collar a tan and white pit bull running around Kalispell and passed the torch to the Sheriff's Office. 

Meanwhile, in Kila, a delivery driver found one dog in distress and another running free. They told dispatchers that there was no food or water in the kennel and the animals, both black Labrador retrievers, looked "extremely underweight." 

After losing seven chickens to a pair of hungry huskies in Columbia Falls, a woman wanted to discuss with deputies her options for dealing with the canines' owner. 

Authorities headed out to deal with a deer that reportedly had suffered a broken leg in Whitefish but found it had died before they got there.  

A passerby reported seeing a small, unattended campfire underneath a bridge.  

Someone attempting to impersonate a Columbia Falls property owner was reportedly contacting local real estate agents in an attempt to sell their land. They had gone so far as to fabricate a fake ID card for the ruse.  

Upon receiving a threatening phone call from a number with an out-of-state area code, a Columbia Falls resident alerted the Sheriff's Office.  

A Whitefish property owner stumbled across an abandoned campsite on his property. It seemed as though it had gone unused for some time.  

Breaking into several mailboxes in the Bigfork area, thieves made off with checks and later cashed them.  

Miscreants made off with miscellaneous items taken from private property in Martin City in broad daylight. The landowner had potential information about a suspect that they hoped to pass along to deputies.  

Store security alerted the Sheriff's Office to a shoplifter who rounded up several half-eaten food items in the deli and some other products before heading out for a stroll. The sticky-fingered man was last seen headed toward a burger joint.