Law roundup: Teen throws a fistful of fakes at employee
An older teen reportedly tried to exchange counterfeit $100 bills for $20s at a gas station. When the employee told him he could not do that per a management directive, the teen chucked the fake bills at him, took the $20s the employee had and left.
A man was allegedly working under a vehicle at a carwash when it rolled forward and over his leg, which caused him to fall and hurt his arm. The bloodied and shaken — but conscious — man refused medical attention when a passerby asked. He left before the Kalispell Police Department arrived.
A man reportedly returned home to find a tree ripped out of the ground and an “anti-bark” device shot at with a BB gun on his property. He surmised the culprit was a man “of ill repute.” Officers advised him to install security cameras around the home if possible since he didn’t want to escalate the situation with a police visit.
A 54-year-old woman allegedly hit her boyfriend, took his truck and left. Her outburst wasn’t over yet, however, when she returned on foot and started yelling and throwing items out of the house. She then went into the garage where she tried to unplug his compressor. Parties were counseled.
A man reportedly walked up to the side of someone’s fence during the night and threw something at the window, denting the frame.
Police picked up a bucket of old pipe fittings by the highway and disposed of it.
A white CRV pulled up next to someone in a parking lot and the driver allegedly had a beer in her hand and smelled like alcohol. She and her passenger went inside a store and were gone by the time officers arrived.
A man and woman were having an argument for about an hour in a parked car until officers arrived. The man agreed to find someone with a valid driver’s license to drive his car and the woman agreed to leave on foot.
A woman thought a man was scoping out her house and a neighbor’s. Officers offered to conduct extra patrols in the area due to an increase in suspicious activity being reported and the influx of fair visitors.
A mother allegedly wanted to arm her son with a “Taser/stun gun” while he attended the fair at night after he ran into problems on a previous night and she wanted to know what the laws were. She was told he needed to be at least 18. She was advised about other self-defense tools and told to call the police if her son was harassed or attacked.
A man’s rental truck was allegedly vandalized when he got into an argument with a man he was giving a ride to and they ripped out a TV monitor.
Someone working on a cell tower generator was reportedly stung by a wasp twice and was going in and out of consciousness.
A truck caught on fire in a fast-food restaurant parking lot. Some bushes also caught on fire as a man tried to put it out. The fire was knocked down.