Tuesday 9/29
9:26 a.m. A subject caught in an elevator on 2nd Avenue West called authorities for assistance. The man indicated that he couldn’t be in there for long because he had things to do.
10:24 a.m. A maroon vehicle pulling a trailer somehow constituted a road hazard on Highway 2.
10:28 a.m. Someone on Mallard Loop suspects that his grandson stole his firearm.
10:48 a.m. Someone knocked down a fence at the power station on Helena Flats Road.
11:13 a.m. Employees of a local bank were alarmed to smell an electrical burning aroma in the building. The building did not need to be evacuated.
11:54 a.m. A man was walking his dog down Trails End Drive when a neighbor’s dog leaped out and bit him. The offending pooch was impounded in the absence of its owner.
12:02 p.m. A sailboarder on Ashley Lake returned from a walk in the woods to find that a hole had been torn in his sail.
1:48 p.m. Someone called to request a welfare check on an elderly friend on Lake Loop Drive. Authorities located the individual, who was completely fine.
2:41 p.m. An unspecified amount of cash was taken from a lumber company in Columbia Falls. No sign of forced entry was found.
3:05 p.m. An individual working in the North Fork area came across two dogs that had been shot on a Forest Service road.
3:30 p.m. A motor home in Coram was completely engulfed in flames. Despite valiant attempts to extinguish the blaze, the vehicle could not be saved.
3:47 p.m. Someone in Columbia Falls reports that a neighbor’s Doberman came onto his property, tore up his landscaping and “raped his Papillion.”
4:29 p.m. Someone saw a cat that looked skinny and sickly in Evergreen.
5:14 p.m. A suspicious man with a backpack was actually authorized to be on Blacktail Road.
5:51 p.m. Two inmates ripped a sign from the wall in the activity room of the Flathead County Detention Center.
6:15 p.m. Someone keyed a car on East Evergreen Drive.
6:27 p.m. Two men engaged in a physical altercation in Hungry Horse. Neither was seriously hurt.
6:28 p.m. The windshield and both front doors were broken from a vehicle in Martin City.
6:34 p.m. Someone on Shady River Lane in Whitefish called for advice regarding a bat that had gotten into the house.
7:15 p.m. An individual in Polson left threatening messages to someone in Flathead County.
9:09 p.m. An intoxicated woman attempted unsuccessfully to run out onto the highway near Moonlight Trail. The reporting party held her down until she calmed, and another female friend drove the woman home.
10:18 p.m. A drunk driver passed another car in a no passing zone in Creston.