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: Concerned caller misses the mark
Seeing a man practicing archery near several soccer fields where children were playing, a passerby alerted the Kalispell Police Department. Although the archery practice didn’t seem unsafe per se, the passerby felt…
Law roundup: Parental advisory required for campground singer
Columbia Falls Police Department called back a phone number tied to a 911 hangup and dispatch heard a child screaming, “I don’t want to go to jail.” The ...
Law roundup: Woman suspicious of staring man
A bearded man with a ponytail spooked a woman in a parking lot one morning when she spotted him standing by the door she walked out of to get to the parking lot. She reportedly told the Kalispell Police Department …
Law roundup: Garbage strikes woman’s windshield
A man in a gray car parked next to a woman’s vehicle threw something that landed on her windshield and drove away. She called the Kalispell Police Department because she reportedly wanted to make sure “the substanc…
Law roundup: Employee aggravated over ‘crack house’
A maintenance employee called the Kalispell Police Department to move along a man allegedly carrying a black garbage bag and looking into car windows in a parking lot while waiting for a lady who walked to the “cra…
Law roundup: Good Samaritan turns in money left at ATM
A Good Samaritan calling the Kalispell Police Department from Lakeside wanted officers to know he reportedly turned in $200 left at an ATM, to the bank.
Law roundup: Praying man makes passerby suspicious
Overhearing a person they assumed was homeless praying for a missing girl from Pablo, a passerby surreptitiously recorded him and alerted the Kalispell Police Department.
Law roundup: Construction crews find leftover pizza
A pizza party was reportedly held on a second-floor balcony of an apartment building under construction when crews found food, blankets and garbage.
Law roundup: Not without his guns
After children were safely evacuated, a man allegedly refused to leave a room full of smoke until he rescued his guns.
Law roundup: Student driver gets front seat to road rage lesson
A student driver got a first-hand lesson in road rage when an intolerant man driving a dark gray F-150 allegedly honked repeatedly and yelled at them while they cautiously turned.
Law roundup: Scream loudly and carry a big stick
Flathead County Sheriff’s Office alleging their daughter was outside screaming and trying to break thier window with a very large stick.
Law roundup: Drunken man forgetfully trespasses on campus
A man caught wandering around a college campus was reminded by officers with the Kalispell Police Department that he was banned from the property. Officers suspected he was too drunk to remember the first time they…
Law roundup: Man goes off-road in golf cart
An older man wearing a plaid shirt reportedly stole a golf cart and drove it up a steep hill on private property. A nearby resident ...
Law roundup: Caller wigs out over stranger
Someone allegedly called the Kalispell Police Department because they were suspicious of a woman wearing a blonde wig who was at a location across the street and wanted officers to “check it out.”
Law roundup: Woman blow off steam at trees
A middle-aged woman wearing a black trench coat and sandals was allegedly swaying in Woodland Park smoking, screaming nonsense and swinging a stick around.