Law roundup: Man goes out lurkin' after midnight

A man holding a baseball bat and wearing a black hoodie was spotted walking around outside after midnight. A resident told Kalispell Police that he saw him going through a neighbor’s truck and when his wife went outside to confront him, he didn’t respond. Instead, he reportedly stared into their windows and continued pacing back and forth on Indian Trail Road. Eventually they lost sight of him in the darkness and worried that he was hiding behind trees in someone’s yard.  

Officers spoke to the lurker who allegedly said he was using the bat for “personal protection” while he attempted to locate “kids” who were stealing things out the back of his truck, believing they lived at the couple’s house. 

A resident who went to check on their barking dog noticed the door to a unit across the street was suspiciously left open. Also, the motion sensor lights were on downstairs, and he heard a male’s voice. They told the police that as far as they knew, the occupants had moved out a week ago. Officers ticketed someone for trespassing and released them. 

Officers received a call from someone complaining about the noise coming from a small, black SUV full of teenagers reportedly using a microphone, saying they were using awful language. 

A woman’s purse was reportedly stolen out of her apartment while she was downstairs. She seemed frustrated by the dispatcher’s questions about the incident and said that a neighbor had a duplicate key and wasn’t sure if they could have gone into the apartment. 

A disrespectful 30-year-old was reportedly slamming things around in his mother’s apartment, being mean and refusing to leave. She called the police, wanting him to be taken to the Flathead Warming Center. She told officers that he had previously been kicked out but she “had to let him come back home when the weather turned as she was trying to be a good mom.” 

A man whose tires were stolen last year, which he thought were listed for sale online due to scratches on the rims he thought he recognized, followed up with police, saying he determined they were not his wheels as the owners provided a receipt. 

A tenant complained that a black and silver Chevy pickup was parked at the location for about three months. They also had reported it to the property manager. An officer advised them that the truck was parked on private property, and the property manager would have to go through their own process to have it moved. However, the registered owner also lived in the apartment building. 

A "really nice" orange and black mountain bike was allegedly left in the grass by apartments near Idaho Street, and a woman called the police, concerned it might be stolen.