Behind truck not a good hiding place

Flathead County Sheriff's deputies got the call when an intoxicated patron of a bar at the junction of U.S. 2 and Montana 40 threatened to get his gun and settle a dispute late Saturday afternoon. Instead, the 29-year-old man hopped in his truck and drove north on Half Moon Road.

Near East Edgewood and Haskill Basin Road, he met an oncoming Montana Highway Patrol trooper responding to the call and veered off into the center of a field. He jumped out of his truck and tried to hide behind it. They found him. U.S. Border Patrol agents also responded.

He said, she said - but who had the gun? That's what deputies are investigating after a call to Lore Lake Road. A woman said a neighbor threatened her children first with a 30.06 gun with a scope, then with a bat. He denied it when questioned, saying she was the one with the gun.

A hunter who was reported trespassing along West Reserve was gone when Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials checked into the complaint.

A suicidal inmate was reported at the Flathead County jail, but nobody went to the hospital.

Motel guests from Louisiana raised the suspicions of a Whitefish innkeeper who thought they were high on something. Apparently, they were just acting like Louisianans.

Despite the fluorescent lights flashing inside the Creston School late Saturday, all was fine.

A reckless driver in the wrong traffic lane on Cemetery Road was gone when deputies checked into the report.

The alcohol enforcement team checked on a vehicle at Lawrence Park just before 2:30 a.m. Sunday and ended up charging a boy with being a minor in possession. He was taken to Kalispell Police Department.

A cat owner had to take her pet to the animal shelter and have it euthanized after a dog attacked it in the Canyon area Sunday morning. A dog in Evergreen reportedly killed six chickens that children had hatched at school and were raising at home.

Abandoned kittens were reported at the Somers green box site. The reporting party took one home but left the rest.

A diamond ring was reported missing from a Nordic Loop home outside Whitefish.

Deputies received 110 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Kalispell police arrested a man for drunk driving and having an open container after reckless driving was reported near Carpenter's Arena on U.S. 93 South. The pickup reportedly was northbound in a southbound lane. Police contacted the man's Missoula probation officer.

An ex-boyfriend pounded on the door of a Liberty Street apartment at 1 a.m. Sunday to get his dog but then refused to leave, so the resident called police. She managed to get him out and lock the door, but he ended up back inside. When police came, they warned him to stay away or risk arrest.

Somebody left a purse in a booth at a U.S. 93 North restaurant and returned to find it missing, along with credit card, debit card, Social Security card, Medicare card, checkbook and a substantial amount of cash.

A man who smelled of alcohol drove himself to the hospital Saturday but prompted a security officer to call police. When discharged, he got a ride home from an officer.

In Woodland Park Saturday, a woman who found a white malamute decided against police advice of letting it find its way home. Instead she took it to her home and planned to take it to the animal shelter Monday.

Money reportedly was taken from a club's donation box at its First Avenue West North location. A wallet found at a Hutton Ranch Plaza restaurant was put in safe keeping. A camera was reported stolen from a car.

Suspicions fell on a neighbor after a Darlington Road resident found his fence cut.

An officer wrangled cows from the roadside into a fenced field along Airport Road and Teal Drive and temporarily fixed the fence. The owner pledged to send someone to do a permanent fix.

An off-duty Highway Patrol officer reported a vehicle roaring around the Glacier High School lot and honking his horn Saturday night. The lot was empty when police arrived.

Kalispell police received 62 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Whitefish police were called for a disturbance at a home on First Street East early Sunday.

Officers booted four patrons from two Central Avenue bars because they were disturbing the peace.

Police received 27 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Columbia Falls police received four calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Alarms

Kalispell ambulance took a man to the hospital after he was reported passed out and snoring at a grocery store on East Idaho. They also transported a patient who had fallen out of a wheelchair and complained of neck pain at an Idaho and Main drugstore.

Three Rivers EMS took a man from the business strip on U.S. 2 in Columbia Falls to the hospital for a mental health check.