Law Roundup
A daily snapshot of Flathead Valley’s law enforcement activity—calls, arrests, and oddities from the police blotter.
Law roundup: Why did the chicken not cross the road?
Someone calling from Crescent Drive called Columbia Falls Police Department reportedly concerned about the welfare of 10 chickens on the loose in the road and in people’s yards. Officers ...
Law roundup: Robin Hood, but no men in tights
A man playing Robin Hood in a public park raised alarm bells for a neighbor.
Law roundup: Man not used to being told ‘no’
A man wearing a black jumpsuit reportedly threatened to punch and “rip people’s faces off” in Kalispell when someone told him “No,” after he asked them for money. Kalispell Police Department confirmed the man had a…
Law roundup: Drunk drivers on tap around county
A drunk woman was reportedly driving, and swerving, around Kalispell with a bottle in her lap and a bunch of people, including two kids, in her car, which had its lights turned off at night.
Law roundup: Parking lot party creates a ruckus
Kalispell Police Department responded to a report of about 15 to 30 teens allegedly causing a ruckus in a parking lot. A caller, who wanted to remain anonymous, said the crowd was hollering and screaming and had a …
Law roundup: ‘Blood trail’ doesn’t lead police anywhere
Someone purportedly found a “blood trail” that went along the sidewalk behind a bank toward the hospital.
Law Roundup: Boys playing hooky busted
Columbia Falls Police busted a trio of school skippers who were trying to lay low inside their vehicle at a city park. The boys' parents were notified.
Law roundup: Cleanup of drunk man in row seven
Someone called the Kalispell Police Department asking them to check on the welfare of a semi-conscious and highly intoxicated barefoot man possibly in his early 20s who was reportedly discovered in row seven of a p…
Law roundup: Man did not, in fact, like these apples
A man was allegedly attacked twice by “two drunk punks.”
Law roundup: Man’s nice tan doesn’t earn pass to loiter
An employee asked Kalispell Police Department officers to move along a shirtless man with a “nice tan” who allegedly loitered on the property for two days refusing to leave “unless the cops were involved.” He left …
Law roundup: Police respond to reported ‘tweaker activity’
Kalispell Police Department responded to a report of alleged “tweaker activity” where two men and a woman were seen tearing apart the inside of a white Nissan sedan and then trying to jump it.
Law roundup: Man goes for beer walk in underwear
A man wearing underwear was reportedly spotted holding a beer and walking in traffic in Evergreen.
Law roundup: HIPAA doesn't cover crime
Kalispell Police officers poked around a medical facility after a nurse reported overhearing a conversation between a patient and a visitor that seemed to be about a stolen Cadillac. Officers were unable to find an…
Law roundup: Person talks turkey with police
Whitefish Police Department received a call from someone all aflutter claiming an officer in a silver “K9 police car” tried to hit a turkey. And there’s no telling what they’ll try come Thanksgiving.
Law Roundup: A campaign sign switcheroo
A man called the Columbia Falls Police Department after his wife allegedly told him a suspicious man “ripped” a political campaign sign off a chainlink fence in front of a nonprofit on Fourth Avenue and threw it in…