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Raging drivers told to grow up

| June 15, 2009 12:00 AM

Columbia Falls police had to ask a couple men to act more mature after a road rage incident that involved pulling out in front of a car, tailgating, hand gestures and shouted improprieties on U.S. 2 in Columbia Heights Saturday afternoon.

Somebody stole a gas can from a parked boat.

Police charged a 23-year-old woman with drunk driving on U.S. 2 near Fifth Avenue West early Sunday.

Columbia Falls police had 31 log entries between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Witnesses told Kalispell police that a man, accused of indecent exposure for exposing himself to a 14-year-old boy in the pool area at an East Idaho hotel, was wearing a homemade thong that didn't completely cover the essentials.

Police turned up a warrant for a driver in a two-vehicle accident Saturday afternoon, so arrested him.

An unlocked bicycle was reported stolen from near the mall on Main Street.

Two ladies were arrested for shoplifting at a grocery store Saturday night.

A Fifth Avenue West resident came home to a window that was broken when a rock was tossed through it.

Two boys used Kalispell Middle School for pellet gun target practice Saturday night.

Two women, one with a baby, were arrested for shoplifting at a grocery store. Both also had outstanding warrants.

A traffic stop early Sunday resulted in a DUI and a charge of no insurance for a 26-year-old man.

Two cars crashed on East Idaho early Sunday. One driver, a 26-year-old man, was arrested on an outstanding warrant and charged with resisting arrest and obstructing an officer. The other driver, a 25-year-old woman, was charged with failing to identify herself at the scene.

A severely injured black Labrador on Camelot Drive near Lone Pine State Park went to the vet for treatment after somebody heard it being attacked by some animal. The veterinarian couldn't say what kind of animal attacked the dog, but it "must have been powerful."

Threatening text messages were reported Sunday afternoon.

Kalispell police had 46 log entries between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Flathead County Sheriff's deputies arrested a 17-year-old boy on assault charges after he allegedly broke a 15-year-old boy's jaw in a fight in an Evergreen-area garage Saturday night.

A glass vial containing a white powder found in the jail Sunday morning is being sent for testing.

A missing 2 1/2-year-old girl was found in the crawl space of a Plantation Drive home Saturday afternoon.

Fishing supplies, including a trailer hitch hidden in his clothing, were the primary target of a 68-year-old man who was arrested for shoplifting in an Evergreen sporting goods store.

Reports of lightning strikes came into the sheriff's dispatch center Sunday afternoon from the Hungry Horse Reservoir, Lake Blaine and Foothill Road areas.

The driver had fled the scene by the time deputies got to a one-vehicle rollover on Lower Valley Road early Sunday. They reportedly found beer in the rig but couldn't get an answer when they went to the driver's home.

A 14-year-old boy got into a physical fight with his mother on Coon Hollow Road by Kila Saturday evening. Deputies took him to his father's home.

Deputies helped quell a domestic shouting match north of the Emery Bay campground Saturday night.

A mother-in-law got in the middle of another argument between a husband and wife who had been drinking.

The sheriff's department had 130 log entries between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Whitefish police arrested an 18-year-old man for theft, minor in possession and disorderly conduct after a shoplifting incident at a grocery store early Sunday.

It was 4:45 a.m. when police had to break up a loud party at Park Avenue and East Third, where they arrested a 19-year-old man for disorderly conduct.

Whitefish police had 45 log entries between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Alarms

Owners of a car got it pushed out of the Martin City garage where it burst into flames, but it was engulfed in fire when Martin City firefighters arrived.

Smith Valley Fire and a Kalispell Fire Department ambulance were called to a one-vehicle rollover on Batavia Lane, from which a woman was taken to Kalispell Regional Medical Center.