Law roundup: Nonprofit bus graffitied

A woman called the Kalispell Police Department saying she was the director of Coats for Kids and had received third-hand information their bus was covered with graffiti. The graffiti, which was done in erasable marker around the bus, had messages along the lines of, “Hope not dope” and “Back the red.” Extra patrol was requested. 

Someone was suspicious that a person in a vehicle parked by the hospital was “burning paperwork” when they saw an open flame. It turns out that the person was burning incense in her vehicle.  

A woman reportedly screamed at her ex, punching him in the face, before fleeing the scene with their child, who was heard crying in the background of the call to police, along with her screaming at him to get out. Dispatch advised him to lock the apartment door so she couldn’t get back in. 

A parent contacted officers after her daughter said a bearded man possibly took photos of her while she was walking home from school and tracked him down to a field. Dispatch advised her not to follow him any farther. Officers counseled the man who did not have photos of the girl on his phone.  

A tip jar was reported stolen, and a manager called the police when she allegedly got an email from a woman who said her son had taken the jar but went on to clarify that the email didn’t explicitly state that.

Someone asked officers to do extra patrol around her mother’s house because she invited someone over who had a history of assaulting her. 

A woman allegedly thought she heard two men yelling, “I’m going to shoot you,” at each other and then what sounded like two gunshots, on the northwest side of a store, but it was “business as usual” inside where no one saw or heard anything of the sort. 

Officers stopped a pedestrian who looked like he was about to try opening a door handle after a “few moments of suspicious behavior.” 

A passing vehicle flagged down an officer, reportedly giving them a driver’s license and three bank cards a passerby handed off to them after finding the cards in the snow. The card owner was out of the state and authorized a relative to retrieve them.  

A husky puppy on the loose was reportedly hit by a car and although injured, it was up and running away from people trying to catch it.