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: Parking lot is drunk man’s challenge of the day
A parking lot might as well of been an obstacle course when a severely intoxicated man was spotted having difficulties walking to his apartment and kept lying down between cars. After about three hours ...
Law Roundup: Boom go the fireworks, all night long
Multiple reports of huge fireworks being shot off in Kalispell's city limits. One group got "mouthy" when asked to simmer down for the evening.
Law roundup: If you can't beat'em, join'em
After coming across a man haranguing an intersection with a megaphone, a passerby inquired with the Kalispell Police Department whether that was allowed.
Law roundup: Camaro is too fast, too furious
A Flathead County Sheriff’s Office deputy reportedly witnessed a Camaro do a burnout, lose control and hit a post at an oil change business in Kalispell. The driver was ticketed and released.
Law roundup: Woman with shears hates the rain
A suspicious woman with garden shears and smeared makeup was reportedly going door-to-door in a neighborhood saying she hates the rain.
Law roundup: Wine time sends woman on a crying jag
An employee asked the Columbia Falls Police Department to check on and move along a drunk woman lying on the concrete in front of the doors of the establishment, crying about her husband.
Law roundup: Beware of online strangers asking for money
The rapid souring of an online relationship left a resident turning to the Kalispell Police Department for help. They told officers that they met a woman online and had sent them money, but now she was demanding mo…
Law roundup: Thief leaves a paper trail behind
Someone reportedly broke into a truck and stole a wallet containing credit cards and around $180 cash, dropping some of the bills on the floor.
Law roundup: Thieves take off with Kalispell man's arsenal
A man reportedly grabbed his gun when he heard glass breaking and saw two guys wearing hoodies in his truck and yelled at them, so they took off with a stolen AR-15 and two stolen .22 rifles.
Law roundup: For one man, it’s never like riding a bike
A 6-foot-tall man attempting to ride a bicycle through the area might want to look into a less exasperating form of exercise when he reportedly kept crashing and yelling “die” and “other curse words," according to …
Law roundup: Shoplifter allays fear with knife
Flathead County Sheriff’s Office received a report that a man allegedly “popped open” a knife when employees tried to stop him from shoplifting in the parking lot and said, “Don’t worry, I have a knife.”
Law roundup: Woman reported for jogging dangerously
Someone called the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office to report a woman for purportedly “jogging dangerously” on the shoulder of the road, just beyond the white line, in Kalispell.
Law roundup: Caller claims Spanish speaking men discussed crimes
Officers later determined that the men were just doing laundry.
Law roundup: Drunk woman pulls into driveway trying to avoid DUI
A drunk driver allegedly pulled into a stranger’s driveway, telling the resident who came outside asking her what she was doing that she was trying to avoid being pulled over by a Columbia Falls Police Department c…
Law roundup: ‘Man’ taken for a burglar in prank
A woman reportedly saw a man wearing a baseball cap under the covers in her bed and fled in a panic.