Flathead County sheriff
Flathead County sheriff's deputies got a call Wednesday afternoon about a young woman screaming for help at Herron Park. It appeared a large man was forcing the woman into a car there.
Deputies arrested a 39-year-old man for partner or family member assault after he allegedly attacked his wife at a home on U.S. 93 west of Whitefish.
The Interagency Dispatch Center in Kalispell fielded a call about a tall column of smoke in the hills above Lakeside Wednesday afternoon. No structures were threatened, according to a report from a plane flying over the spot.
Neighbors on Mountain Drive in Hungry Horse were at odds. One said the other threatened him and his mother, videotaped them and stood on the porch.
Two pit bulls owned by the same person had to be put down after they got into a fight at a Mountain View Drive home in Evergreen. The owner was bitten, then taken to the hospital by private vehicle.
Three boys were caught destroying picnic tables at Herron Park Wednesday evening.
Kids throwing balloons at cars passing by Marina Cay early Thursday were gone when officers arrived.
The landlord called deputies after a renter damaged a cabin by running a vehicle into it.
Just after midnight somebody on Electric Avenue in Bigfork found a screen bent and partially open, but nothing was out of sorts inside the building.
At 1 a.m., a caller reported that somebody had dismantled a deer stand and taken it.
When an intoxicated man sat on a porch and refused to leave Thursday afternoon, the resident called the sheriff's office.
Kalispell police
Kalispell police cited a man for open container violation after a dispute with a used car-lot manager who could not get the man to move his camper trailer. He'd also been cited with obstruction.
Reckless driving reports turned into a DUI arrest after a pickup truck driver hit a camper at the intersection of U.S. 93 and West Reserve.
An oil-change business on Airport Road called to report a customer's threat to return and beat the mechanic who had changed his oil Wednesday afternoon.
Police arrested a woman at a U.S. 93 South supermarket after the store's loss-prevention specialist stopped her in the parking lot with a cart filled with unpaid-for groceries.
A laptop computer reportedly was stolen from a locked vehicle parked in a motel lot overnight. No forced entry was visible. Thefts from other vehicles included a digital camera, radar detector, ID's, an iPod and rings. A window was broken out of a parked Honda CRV.
The woman never showed up, even though she had promised to meet officers at an apartment door when they came to check out her complaint of juveniles being let into another apartment to drink alcohol and then run all over the complex.
Loud music, suspected drug activity and cursing were the complaints against people gathered at Third and Main early Thursday. During the day Thursday a neighboring business complained that it was the second time in a week that those folks had thrown tennis shoes onto overhead power lines there.
Restaurant owners on East Idaho were fine with six men staying to finish their breakfast early Thursday as long as they quit fighting and behaved.
Police received 99 calls for help between 3:30 p.m. Wednesday and 3:30 p.m. Thursday.
Columbia Falls police
Columbia Falls police took a report of a stolen vehicle just before 5 a.m. Thursday. Two hours later the owner found it on Berne Road.
On Martha Road, the stolen-then-found report involved a bicycle.
Police received 16 calls for help between 3:30 p.m. Wednesday and 3:30 p.m. Thursday.
Whitefish police
Whitefish police got a call from North Valley Hospital from employees who were worried that a man who had been drinking would be driving after he left the hospital. Instead, police spotted him urinating in public so he got a disorderly conduct charge.
Police helped settle a family dispute in the Canyon Wednesday evening after they got a call from a resident on Waverly Place.
Police received 39 calls for help between 3:30 p.m. Wednesday and 3:30 p.m. Thursday.
Alarms
Kalispell ambulance went to a patient with a reaction to a bee sting on Third Avenue EN, and to a person with a back injury from a vehicle accident west of Shadow Lane in Evergreen.