Law Roundup
The Daily Inter Lake's Law Roundup provides daily updates on crime and public disturbance news happening around town. Browse the latest stories below.
Kalispell man surrenders following SWAT response
Kalispell man surrenders following SWAT response
Law roundup: Full-grown man refuses to act like an adult
Did Billy Madison pay Kalispell a visit? A passerby described a suspicious man heckling children at a bus stop near tennis courts to officers with the Kalispell Police Department.
Law roundup: Woman uses laundromat to catch her shows
On the eighth day in a row that a woman showed up at a laundromat not to clean her clothes but to soak up some television, an employee phoned the Kalispell Police Department.
Law roundup: Man gives thousand-yard stare on stranger’s lawn
A man wearing a colorful beanie that looked like a ladybug allegedly stood on someone’s front lawn with a shopping cart, messing with his sweatpants while staring bug-eyed at nothing for 10 minutes before the resid…
Law Roundup: Threatening note writer told to stop
A resident of an apartment complex did not appreciate continuing to receive threatening notes from a neighbor about backing into a parking spot. Kalispell Police Department told the note writer to take the issue up…
Law roundup: Police asked to use their parenting skills
Deciding that it was time for her son to come home from his girlfriend's home, a mother asked an officer with the Kalispell Police Department to give him a ride
Law roundup: Motorists dares cops to write him a ticket
Arousing the ire of employees of a business after allegedly fishtailing around the parking lot and performing brodies, the driver of a black Ford truck told officers with the Kalispell Police Department that they w…
Law roundup: Person follows alleged speeder home, records driver
A driver was reportedly so outraged when a vehicle passed them in Columbia Falls that they followed it home, stopped in front of the car and started recording the driver, yelling at her for going over the speed lim…
Law roundup: Man hyped up to get out of town
A man reportedly strolled along Main Street yelling profanities at passing vehicles, acting like he was going to walk into traffic.
Law roundup: Person threatened with ‘curb stomping’
Flathead County Sheriff’s Office received a report of someone reportedly threatening to show up at a Columbia Falls property to “curb stomp and slit” someone’s throat.
Law roundup: Breaker, breaker. Drug deal going down.
Something fishy was going on in Kalispell when a barefoot man with a walkie talkie met another shady character on a bike.
Law roundup: Ninety-nine bottles of beer left behind
Two guys in hoodies attempted to steal four racks of beer, according to Kalispell Police logs.
Law roundup: Teenage driver fails to mend fences
After hitting a fence while drifting in a four-wheel drive pickup truck on 12th Street, a teenager allegedly told the homeowner that his mother would give them a call to sort it all out.
Law roundup: Neighbor wants to know what’s up
Spotting law enforcement officers in her neighborhood, a resident phoned the Kalispell Police Department asking for the inside scoop on what was going on outside her home.
Law roundup: Errant Christmas trees lands in road
No word on whether they spotted a 1989 Ford Taurus wagon returning to retrieve the evergreen.
Law roundup: Flower shop worker fears pushing up daisies
A flower shop employee feared for her safety after a person she suspected of being homeless entered the store and asked for money.