Police Blotter

Flathead County Sheriff’s and Kalispell Police Reports

Large Dogs Terrorize Flathead County Residents

By Christie Burns

Wednesday 10/6

6:17 a.m. County deputies and city police departments were on the lookout for a female who pulled the fire alarm at an Evergreen business and ran away.

6:48 a.m. Someone from Tamarack Drive in Kalispell reported a suspicious person who had been walking through the neighborhood with a flashlight looking in vehicles. When a porch light came on the person ran.

8:33 a.m. A Whitefish resident claimed their mailbox looked as though someone had shot it.

8:49 a.m. Employees at an Evergeen drive-through restaurant called in complaining of a dog standing at the drive-up window.

10:43 a.m. A “nicely behaved” black lab was seen on Mallard Loop in Whitefish.

10:49 a.m. Someone showed up in the sheriff’s department lobby reporting that they had been assaulted in an Evergreen trailer court. After speaking with a deputy they decided not to press charges.

11:41 a.m. A Bigfork resident reported that their neighbor’s alpaca and sheep were “eating the grass and trees down to the dirt.”

11:56 a.m. Someone reported seeing four distracted blondes driving recklessly through Evergreen.

12:34 p.m. An Evergreen woman called in to report that three days ago she saw someone take her dog off the chain and put it in their big Suburban.

1:00 p.m. Someone felt the need to inform the Sheriff’s Office that there will be a party this Saturday night somewhere in Flathead County.

3:34 p.m. Someone from Kalispell wanted to report that they had a stray pit bull trapped in their home.

4:20 p.m. A Bigfork woman called in to say that their was a black lab standing in her yard and she couldn’t get out of her house.

5:19 p.m. Someone noticed that there were two horses standing on Foys Lake Road a “quarter passed the round-about.”

5:26 p.m. A Jellison Road resident’s upset daughter attempted to light the tree house on fire.

5:42 p.m. A pit bull and a German shepherd were caught defecating in a Lakeside resident’s yard.

8:55 p.m. A big white truck blew right through a stop sign on Highway 82 in Somers.

10:03 p.m. Lots of females were yelling in Hungry Horse. All was quiet when deputies arrived.

10:13 p.m. A Kalispell man’s drunken neighbor punched him when he attempted to help him through “hard times.”

11:54 p.m. A boyfriend called in to report that his argumentative girlfriend was running around in the woods and now he can’t find her.

1:36 a.m. Seven people fought each other in the parking lot of a Coram business. They were gone when deputies arrived.