Car theft report turns out to be false

Kalispell police and Flathead County sheriff's deputies pieced together a web of reports early Sunday that ended with an allegedly false report of a stolen vehicle.

The first call came at 1:25 a.m. reporting a red Chevrolet Impala had hit a tree on Parliament Drive and the driver, a man, was arguing with a neighborhood resident. The next call came at 1:42 a.m. from an Airport Road casino, with a man reporting he had given the keys to his red Chevrolet Impala to another man and that it now was stolen. He then hung up on dispatchers trying to get information, as he did with subsequent calls.

Investigation revealed that he allegedly had an argument with his ex-girlfriend earlier in the evening, ran into her car as he attempted to drive away, got out and kicked her car, then drove off in his Impala and ran into the tree at the end of the block. He allegedly called for a friend to pick him up and left his car behind. He then called from the casino to make the stolen vehicle report.

Police jailed an employee of a Kalispell Center Mall shop for alleged theft by embezzlement and for outstanding warrants Saturday afternoon.

Fentanyl pain patches were reported stolen from a home.

When a Liberty Street resident came home at 3:30 p.m., the window screen was down and all seemed fine. Upon returning later, $40 was missing, the resident reported. Police said somebody entered through a window left half open.

A Hutton Ranch Road telephone pole was unscathed when it became the sudden stopping point for a driver who apparently had been drinking, swerving, then stumbling as he got out to check damage to his own vehicle after the collision.

A wife collected her things to stay elsewhere for the night after her husband locked her out of the house during an argument.

Officers arrested a man on mental health act papers after he threatened suicide.

She was trying to give somebody a ride home because that person had been drinking, the caller told police, but a man assaulted the rider and took off. Dispatchers heard the screaming.

Teens reportedly threw water balloons at people gathered on North Meridian for a 40 Days for Life rally.

Officers had 52 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Flathead County sheriff's deputies are investigating the possible link between an assault on Coram Stage Road late Saturday afternoon and a fire in a trailer at the same location reported about 5:30 a.m. Sunday.

A man reported a dark blue Ford pickup with Washington plates and two kayaks on top trespassed on his property. He yelled for the driver to slow down. The driver reportedly turned around and, as he tried to get out of the truck, the property owner slammed the door to keep him inside. The driver hit his head, but then reportedly got out and hit the property owner over the head. Detectives are checking into arson as a possibility for the Sunday morning fire.

Disharmony on Harmony Road took the form of a reported assault Saturday, after which the man was arrested on outstanding warrants.

Screams, a woman in the back of a vehicle and a window being rolled up as it drove away prompted concerns over a domestic dispute at U.S. and Montana 40 on Saturday evening.

Parents were told to take charge of three young siblings fighting among themselves after 11 p.m. Saturday on Antelope Trail.

Somebody walking past a car in a Bigfork tavern's parking lot reported seeing a "pre-toddler" alone in the car at 1 a.m. Turns out it was an adult woman waiting for her boyfriend to get off work.

A church representative asked deputies to have a sign-carrying protester move on, but the protester was on public property and therefore legal.

A combine just north of Somers reportedly caught fire Sunday afternoon.

High winds overnight knocked down trees across roads and onto power lines with nearly a score of new calls by 9 p.m. Saturday. Along with the windstorm, many horses got out of their enclosures, prompting a request for owners to fortify their fences.

Deputies had 160 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Whitefish police arrested a 46-year-old man on a DUI charge after stopping him on U.S. 93 at Commerce Drive on the south edge of town early Sunday.

Officers had 37 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Columbia Falls police arrested a 22-year-old woman on a shoplifting charge at a Nucleus Avenue grocery store Sunday afternoon.

Officers had 16 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Alarms

Evergreen firefighters put out a fire in a flower basket hanging from a store on U.S. 2 East. They also put out a large slash pile fire on West Cottonwood on Saturday evening after flames were reported 30 to 40 feet in the air.

It appeared diabetic shock caused a driver on U.S. 2 West to strike a chiropractic office building. Evergreen ambulance took the injured driver to the hospital.