Late hikers found safe after search
Flathead County Sheriff's deputies and North Valley Search and Rescue were called when a father and his teenage son and daughter, along with their dog, were several hours late in returning from a hike on Grant Ridge Loop in the Great Bear Wilderness. They reportedly ate lunch in Columbia Falls, and then took off for the hike Saturday, expecting to be back around 8 p.m.
The man called his wife from the ridge top at 5 p.m., saying it was snowing and they were losing the trail so they were turning back. She still had not seen them by shortly after midnight, so she called the sheriff's office. A deputy was posted at the trailhead and stayed until 4 a.m. They didn't show up by then, but North Valley Search members said the hikers safely made it off the trail around 5 a.m.
Kids were reported in the trees across from a Hungry Horse tavern, shooting BBs or rocks at vehicles, people and the tavern.
An out-of-state sister contacted the sheriff's office after receiving a disturbing text message from her Lakeside sister about an alleged attack under way. Deputies found everything was fine at the woman's home.
The man banging on windows and then sitting on the porch on South Cedar Drive was a woman's ex-husband who, it later was reported, had been living in the house and had returned home intoxicated early Sunday.
Was the whitish-blue light that moved slowly across the northwest sky early Sunday for a full 10 seconds a UFO? That's what the caller, who said there had been no drinking that night, wanted to know when phoning the sheriff's office.
An Allen Drive woman reported her possibly suicidal husband was missing Sunday afternoon.
Deputies received 147 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Kalispell police arrested two males, one for assault and the other for being a minor in possession, after an incident at a U.S. 93 South hotel parking lot Saturday afternoon. Kalispell ambulance took one to Kalispell Regional Medical Center.
An overturned vehicle in Ashley Creek had no occupant when found Sunday morning, but it was leaking hazardous fluids into the creek. The vehicle was towed away, and the driver eventually was found with cut legs and taken to the hospital.
A man on Glacier Circle was arrested on a warrant Saturday night. Nearly four hours later a woman called, concerned for the welfare of her son and his half-brother, who had been living with the father there.
On Santa Fe, a resident complained people banged on his widows and doors early Sunday, leaving cans of mushrooms on his doorstep. They drove off when he turned on his light.
What appeared to be unwarranted rude conduct by a driver on U.S. 93 North Saturday afternoon reportedly came after another driver threw a lit cigarette on the other driver's new car.
Officers received 45 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Columbia Falls police arrested a 27-year-old man Sunday for disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and obstructing justice on Seventh Street West. It had been reported as a partner or family member assault.
Officers received 30 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Whitefish police received 19 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Alarms
Smith Valley ambulance took a 16-year-old boy to Kalispell Regional Medical Center after his pickup truck rolled on Ashley Lake Road Saturday night.
Whitefish ambulance took a 53-year-old man who was intoxicated and bleeding from his head from Central Avenue to North Valley Hospital early Sunday.
Bigfork ambulance took a 68-year-old woman suffering from an accidental medication overdose from Village Lane to Kalispell Regional Medical Center.