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Reports of shots fired at campsite

Daily Inter-Lake | UPDATED 15 years, 2 months AGO
| October 26, 2009 2:00 AM

Flathead County sheriff's deputies are investigating a report that two men in a blue pickup shot at three men on horseback. Deputies said the two men, apparently upset that the riders came through the their campsite on horseback, shot at the intruders as they left the camp Sunday afternoon.

A woman reported she found a severed buffalo head, with an ear tag, in her yard on Trails End Drive off Lower Valley Road Sunday morning. The call was referred to Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials.

Another call from a Columbia Mountain Road resident, who reported poaching, also was referred to Fish, Wildlife and Parks.

The 52-year-old man was not missing for long. He was found while the caller was on the phone to the sheriff's office reporting his absence.

The man in a dark, knee-length trench coat rang the doorbell to a Somers home along U.S. 93, and then walked off through the yard. He was gone when deputies arrived.

A man found sleeping in a car outside an Evergreen bar was just fine, so deputies left him alone.

On Gener Trail off Rhodes Draw, windows in a bar were reported broken out by a rock.

Deputies received 131 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Kalispell police are investigating a report that an adult in a Fifth Street West residence was seen grabbing a 3-year-old boy by the arm and throwing him across the room. The boy, who was clad only in diapers, reportedly was screaming and crying.

Police arrested a man for disorderly conduct after he showed up intoxicated at an acquaintance's fast-food work place with a knife in his pocket and caused a disturbance. He then went to the acquaintance's home and yelled at the person.

A man lying on a sidewalk next to an East Idaho bank drew concern from one caller Saturday afternoon. A second caller said the man approached him and asked for drugs, saying he wanted to die. He then was seen walking west. When police contacted him the first time, he seemed fine. When a second attempt to contact him was made, he could not be found.

A woman in a church kitchen said a man there was making sexually harassing comments to her. The man was gone, but police talked with the woman.

Most likely it was a couple of young teens spotted running away, and not the wind, that moved sewer or water pipes into the road at U.S. 93 and Northridge Drive, police told a driver who had spotted the pipes.

A loud scraping noise in the neighborhood preceded an early-morning discovery on Sunday that a stop sign was pulled down and mailboxes were on the ground. Police found four mailboxes apparently taken out by a driver.

Police cleared away "a lot" of 3-inch-long bullets from the intersection of Meridian and West Idaho Sunday morning.

A woman reported her brother created a disturbance before walking back to the hotel where he was staying, with her key in his possession.

Police received 43 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

A Columbia Falls 13-year-old was told to stop making prank phone calls after the call recipient reported harassment.

Columbia Falls police received 15 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Whitefish police charged a 28-year-old woman with DUI and leaving the scene of a property-damage accident after she was seen getting into a car she later damaged when she allegedly drove into a ditch.

Police arrested a 34-year-old woman during a traffic stop and charged her with driving while her license was suspended or revoked.

Police received 21 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Alarms

The Columbia Falls Fire Department went to a home on U.S. 2 West for a leaking propane line; reportedly the dog had chewed through the line.

Kalispell ambulance sent its basic life support team for a 21-year-old woman with severe abdominal pain lying on the sidewalk on Center Street. They took her to the hospital.

Kalispell Fire Department medical workers took an intoxicated woman from a Second Street East bar to the hospital after the bouncer reported she was belligerent and refused a ride home.

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