Law Roundup
A daily snapshot of Flathead Valley’s law enforcement activity—calls, arrests, and oddities from the police blotter.
Law roundup: Child falls out of car, clings to door
Officers with the Kalispell Police Department counseled a mother whose child reportedly fell out of a vehicle.
Law roundup: Exhausted caretaker calls 911 for break
An exhausted woman in Bigfork called 911 reportedly saying someone needed to come take care of her mother because she couldn’t do it anymore.
Law roundup: Neighborhood problem brought to deputies
Someone with a “neighborhood problem” in Kalispell sought out the help of the Flathead County Sherriff’s Office.
Law roundup: Woman doesn't go with the flow
Someone allegedly told the Kalispell Police Department they returned to their motorhome in a parking lot to find the lock had been messed with and urine on the floor inside.
Law roundup: Maybe it’s a sign?
A woman confronted about panhandling in front of a no panhandling sign allegedly responded “with foul language.”
Law roundup: Woman tries to escape drones
Drones were allegedly following a woman sitting in a turn-off to a camping area. She told Flathead County Sherrif’s Office they had followed her before.
Law roundup: Fore! Golfers take aim at horse pasture
A Kalispell resident’s neighbors were reportedly hitting golf balls into their horse pasture and they called the Flathead County Sherrif’s Office out of concern the neighbors were aiming at the horses.
Law roundup: Banned shoplifter wants pants back
A man allegedly caught shoplifting was banned from a store but left a pair of pants behind that he later tried to retrieve.
Law roundup: Individuals find out where the beef is
Kalispell Police Department received a report that two girls who have a beef with another girl allegedly showed up at her location, punched her and threw her into a wall.
Law roundup: Always pay the painter
Upset at apparently not receiving payment for a house painting job in a timely fashion, the contractor returned to the work site to splash “pay the painter” all over a home.
Law roundup: Spooky sounds heard on open line
Dispatchers were reportedly getting ghost 911 calls from an old gas station building that no longer exists and heard loud humming sounds and static on the open line.
Law roundup: Fresh paint job vandalized with razor blade
An employee reportedly found the handiwork of some scallywag who took a razor blade to a freshly painted truck and called the Kalispell Police Department.
Law roundup: Man wants a break, steals candy bars
An employee allegedly saw a man put three Kit Kat bars in his pockets and walk out without paying.
Law roundup: Tough cookie threatens to beat employee
Columbia Falls Police Department received a report about a customer in a black SUV reportedly yelling at staff about cookies and threatening to pull an employee through the window and beat him up.
Law roundup: Arguing former roommates level accusations
A pair of former roommates accused each other of committing crimes and asked the Kalispell Police Department to sort it out.