Law Roundup
A daily snapshot of Flathead Valley’s law enforcement activity—calls, arrests, and oddities from the police blotter.
Law Roundup: Poodle drama unleashed on Columbia Falls
A black poodle had a woman in a tizzy as she attempted to follow the pup around a neighborhood in Columbia Falls so she could confront the owner. After getting salty with dispatchers, she was advised against her pl…
Law roundup: Student driver hits the streets unsupervised
Columbia Falls Police officers stopped an overly ambitious student driver on U.S. 2 and held them while they waited for a person with a valid driver's license to come fetch them. The pupil also received a written w…
Law roundup: Party of 12 runs amok in parking lot
Twelve males were allegedly running around, screaming and peeing in a parking lot while one person handed out beer.
Law roundup: Family told to get their house in order
The Kalispell Police Department received more than one complaint about a screaming male and female. One caller allegedly heard the pair screaming about a dog and something else from a playground and said it was a f…
Law roundup: Man says he’d assault woman ‘if she was a man’
A man in a black lifted truck allegedly pulled up beside a woman in a parking lot, and from his lofty perch, started swearing and yelling at her, saying she almost hit his wife and that he “would have beat her up i…
Law roundup: Man hoses down girlfriend’s mother
A woman breaking up with her boyfriend called the Kalispell Police Department, alleging he was calling the police to spread lies about her and he claimed she was also calling officers to lie about him when she walk…
Law roundup: Man needs to bounce from ex’s property
A man allegedly showed up at his ex-wife’s residence, clambered onto a trampoline and started jumping in an attempt to look inside the house.
Law roundup: SUV doubles as doggy day care
A pet owner had to work out new arrangements for their dog after a passerby spotted it inside a parked vehicle and phoned the Kalispell Police Department to report animal cruelty. The dog had been inside a gold Che…
Law roundup: Caller gets officer up to speed on NASCAR news
An officer got an earful about NASCAR news when a woman, who sounded high, allegedly called the police “concerned and confused” about why her friend hadn’t reported her dad missing after she had been looking for hi…
Law roundup: Cyclists pedal dog complaints on social media
Community members allegedly harassed a Whitefish resident on Facebook about an incident where cyclists participating in an event screamed at her dogs as her house happened to be along the route.
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, t…
Law roundup: Music, sirens and howls disturb the peace
After nearly two hours of reportedly blasting music, intermixed with an intermittent siren that set off the neighbor’s dogs, which started barking and howling, someone called the Kalispell Police Department to comp…
Law roundup: No camping sign requested in park
A woman reportedly found evidence of a campsite, in the form of trash, at a park where she wanted police to put a sign that camping wasn’t allowed.
Law roundup: Officers remind man to phone his mother
After pulling over a driver on First Avenue in the morning hours, officers with the Columbia Falls Police Department reminded him to call his mother.
Law roundup: Woman wants out of cheesy situation
Cheese was allegedly thrown on a woman’s vehicle multiple times. Cheesed off, the woman had enough of the dairy drama and called the Kalispell Police Department, wanting it to stop.