Law roundup: Suspected sleeping beauty actually playing scratch tickets
A woman looking for her payout was mistaken for falling asleep at the wheel. A passerby described her as "passed out" in the front seat to the Kalispell Police Department. When officers checked in on her, though, they found out she was working on scratch tickets and probably had her head down. Officers described her as OK and "not intoxicated in any way."
Sick of listening to their neighbor's quartet of dogs barking the day away, a resident asked the police to intervene.
Officers instructed a motorist to move their parked Mazda away from a fire hydrant.
Someone was reportedly posing as a police officer in Kalispell.
Two men came to fisticuffs over a Wi-Fi signal in a parking lot. When officers arrived, they found a man bleeding from the face. He told them that he was walking around the parking lot looking for internet access when the other man confronted him. When he told the other man to mind his own business, they squared up and traded punches. The other man left after laying him out on the ground.
Officers briefed a party of people on public park rules after someone reported them for littering.
Tired of letting an acquaintance use their property for storage, a resident told the police they wanted the individual banned from the premises.
Called by someone reporting the sound of a woman screaming, officers showed up at a home to find the daughter of the now-deceased owner. She said everything was OK and let officers search the house. They described it as messy — as if items had been thrown about — but the daughter said it always looked that way.
Spotting a blue Dodge Ram that looked as though "it was in a pond" a few minutes prior, a passerby alerted the authorities. They said water mixed with moss was pouring out of the truck. The caller worried the driver was drunk, but authorities believed it was a vehicle that caught on fire earlier in the day. The fire was later doused, and the registered owner seemed fine at the time.