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22-05-2025
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Law roundup: Phone calls from the great beyond
May 22—Over the past couple of weeks, a general manager reportedly received more than 40 phone calls from someone requesting that they "pick her up since she is dead." They contacted the police for advice on how to get the caller to stop because blocking the phone number didn't work. Officers told the caller to knock it off. The man told an officer he was going to block all the funeral home phone numbers, in hopes it would stop the calls dead in their tracks. A fast-food employee allegedly found a blood-filled syringe in the women's bathroom and suspected the owner was a woman wearing a dark green coat who left with a man wearing a "construction coat" on bicycles headed eastbound on Idaho Street. The bathroom was closed until the Kalispell Police Department arrived to collect and dispose of the syringe. The driver of a blue Dodge pickup purportedly "appeared to be in another reality" as he drove very slowly, blocking traffic and flipping people off, according to the unfortunate driver behind him, who said they followed him from Montana 35 to the movie theater parking lot. Officers found the pickup unoccupied. A woman reportedly shoplifted baby food, baby bottles and candy bars. She was advised that she was banned from the store for a year. A woman called the police, alleging her neighbor pushed her around and threatened to punch her, then ignored the dispatcher to yell at a security guard to get away from her door. The woman, who was slurring her words, said it all went down when the neighbor left his door cracked open, which she took as the green light to go inside and get her inhaler. This was when he reportedly pushed her out the door and toward her apartment. Officers talked to her about trespassing. Officers followed up with a woman who reportedly wanted to document things going missing from her house. She suspected a younger male was involved and changed her locks. Since then, she reported that nothing else had gone missing. She requested extra patrols in the area. A reportedly smoking vehicle with a crooked wheel was swerving all over the road behind a bus that had its hazard lights turned on. Both vehicles turned into a bus barn without further incident. A white Dodge with a flatbed reportedly tried running a woman off the road on the U.S. 93 Bypass and passed her on the shoulder. Someone allegedly spray-painted a derogatory word on the side of a truck parked at a location for an hour and a half.
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Yahoo
Law roundup: Phone calls from the great beyond
May 22—Over the past couple of weeks, a general manager reportedly received more than 40 phone calls from someone requesting that they "pick her up since she is dead." They contacted the police for advice on how to get the caller to stop because blocking the phone number didn't work. Officers told the caller to knock it off. The man told an officer he was going to block all the funeral home phone numbers, in hopes it would stop the calls dead in their tracks. A fast-food employee allegedly found a blood-filled syringe in the women's bathroom and suspected the owner was a woman wearing a dark green coat who left with a man wearing a "construction coat" on bicycles headed eastbound on Idaho Street. The bathroom was closed until the Kalispell Police Department arrived to collect and dispose of the syringe. The driver of a blue Dodge pickup purportedly "appeared to be in another reality" as he drove very slowly, blocking traffic and flipping people off, according to the unfortunate driver behind him, who said they followed him from Montana 35 to the movie theater parking lot. Officers found the pickup unoccupied. A woman reportedly shoplifted baby food, baby bottles and candy bars. She was advised that she was banned from the store for a year. A woman called the police, alleging her neighbor pushed her around and threatened to punch her, then ignored the dispatcher to yell at a security guard to get away from her door. The woman, who was slurring her words, said it all went down when the neighbor left his door cracked open, which she took as the green light to go inside and get her inhaler. This was when he reportedly pushed her out the door and toward her apartment. Officers talked to her about trespassing. Officers followed up with a woman who reportedly wanted to document things going missing from her house. She suspected a younger male was involved and changed her locks. Since then, she reported that nothing else had gone missing. She requested extra patrols in the area. A reportedly smoking vehicle with a crooked wheel was swerving all over the road behind a bus that had its hazard lights turned on. Both vehicles turned into a bus barn without further incident. A white Dodge with a flatbed reportedly tried running a woman off the road on the U.S. 93 Bypass and passed her on the shoulder. Someone allegedly spray-painted a derogatory word on the side of a truck parked at a location for an hour and a half.
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Yahoo
Law roundup: Neighbor ain't nothin' but a hound dog
May 21—A neighbor called the Kalispell Police Department to bark about a neighbor's two boisterous basset hounds. The caller claimed the bassets had been barking "on and off for three years," and they were ready to file a noise complaint. Meanwhile, in another part of town, a man with a black goatee was reportedly mouthing off and cussing in front of a casino and gas station that rewarded his belligerence with a lifetime ban. A giggly man allegedly dialed 911 but said there was no emergency; that he took Narcan, an opioid reversal drug, and was driving himself to the hospital, saying he was OK and hung up. On the callback, he said he was playing a game on his phone and was in Great Falls. An officer leaving the police department spotted a 9mm bullet and reported the casing was empty before placing it into an evidence box. The officer didn't see any bullet holes in the building, and there hadn't been any reports of gunshots in the area. A paralegal reportedly working for a medical center's risk management staff allegedly told police they wanted to contact their boss about a potential embezzlement case but didn't have any details. A tall, slim man in his 40s or 50s allegedly walked toward someone, flipped them off and yelled profanities as they continued to walk home. Officers reportedly linked him to another incident where he spat on someone. A curly-haired woman with a small brown dog reportedly tried opening the door to a stranger's house. When the resident confronted her, she allegedly apologized, saying she thought it was her house. The resident filed an online report, concerned she was casing the home. Officers received an online report that someone allegedly kicked out two panels of vinyl fencing that were cracked. Someone wanted to talk to an officer about receiving scam texts alleging a recipient has unpaid tolls.
Yahoo
19-05-2025
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Law roundup: Chapped thief banned from store locations
May 19—An alleged shoplifter was banned from all the store's locations for one year for stealing $10 lotion. A building owner called the Kalispell Police Department after one of their tenants allegedly told them another tenant was running a prostitution ring. Someone complained about people playing music and being loud in a swimming pool area. Parties were advised about the complaint. A tan Ford Expedition allegedly hit the driver's side door of a red Ford Focus and left the scene. Officers were unable to locate the vehicle and changed the call type to "criminal mischief." A man reportedly called the police wanting to know if officers were looking to arrest him, and that he would turn himself in. He alleged that his mother told him he could stop by her house to pick up his things, but when he arrived, she became upset and said she was calling the cops because he was trespassing. Officers advised him to stay away from the property and gave him a phone number for housing and resources while he and his mother figured out a time to do a civil standby to retrieve his things. Two vehicles allegedly parked in the wrong direction next to a community center were ticketed. Someone moving out of a room-sharing situation called officers requesting a civil standby at the apartment where a woman allegedly changed the locks and lied to them. Officers seized license plates from a white Ford Escape.
Yahoo
15-05-2025
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Law roundup: Every time a bell rings, an angel commits burglary
May 15—Multiple "angels" reportedly broke into a woman's apartment one morning, stole her groceries, fed her cat and flew away. She told the responding Kalispell Police Department officer this occurred seasonally. No evidence corroborating a burglary or a religious miracle was found. A man's so-called friend was allegedly beating on his door after throwing a torch at his truck and smashed his windows. There was minor damage to the truck, but the man did not want to press charges. A woman allegedly found a gun after seeing kids go into a garage and wanted officers to check if it was real. The gun was collected for safekeeping and video of the kids was emailed to officers. A scammer reportedly contacted a woman via telephone and internet about a fraudulent tax refund program for property owners. The woman said the allege scammer spoofed a friend's phone number and told her she needed to send $1,000 via gift cards or Venmo, an app used to send and receive money. A carwash customer allegedly found a small bag of counterfeit money. Officers collected the fake bills. Someone thought a man was living in a beat-up camper that was parked by a red pickup in front of a vacant house for four days and called police. Someone became increasingly suspicious of a green Toyota truck with a green camper that was reportedly circling a school when the driver covered their face while they took a picture of them. A man sent to the hospital with a dog bite was trying to determine if he needed to get rabies shots. Officers received a call about criminal mischief at construction sites by Stillwater Road. Extra patrols were requested at a location in the Rail Park Drive area after vehicles, trailers and fire extinguishers were found damaged and someone said it was becoming a nightly occurrence. A man allegedly went door-to-door selling discounted pest treatments for homes. One resident thought the situation was a little buggy when he reportedly looked up the address provided by the salesmen and a community college came up in the results.
