Law roundup: Carousing teens on boat get carried away

It was rough waters for six teens on a white surf boat in Kalispell. A woman told the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office she thought they had been drinking when she reportedly heard one boy throwing up and saw another boy fall overboard. She said the swabbies were also trying to get a friend, who was reportedly swimming away, back in the boat. Deputies drove through the area but saw nothing amiss. 

A truck allegedly struck a pedestrian after an argument and kept driving, headed eastbound on U.S. 2. The pedestrian reportedly said they were OK and declined medical attention.  

Screws were reportedly placed in the middle of the road in Coram. A passerby said they appeared to be intentionally placed. They were stuck in the road with the sharp end pointed up. 

An “unsavory character” was reportedly “messing around” between two properties. The neighbor calling in the report alleged the man was “messing with trees” and yelled at them when he spotted them in their house through the window. Their allegations became more baffling when the man in question was said to be “doing something in the dark that he should not have done and whatever it was, a vehicle just ran over it.”  

A man calling from Whitefish claimed a person in a vehicle parked in a driveway was “scaring everyone in the neighborhood,” yet confirmed to a dispatcher that the person hadn’t done anything to cause harm or alarm outside of looking like a “crackhead." The man also couldn’t provide a vehicle description or the address where it was located since he hadn't seen the person or vehicle himself. He told the dispatcher he had to go and hung up.  

People were reportedly driving too fast past a construction company’s employees as they performed maintenance work in Kalispell. 

Someone allegedly passed on thirdhand information about a woman yelling at cars and waving a knife around in Kalispell.