Columbia Falls police took several complaints on Sunday and again on Monday about door-to-door solicitors, an activity that is illegal in city limits. Callers said groups of either four or six young people from various states were dropped off by a blue Jeep so they could knock on doors and solicit money for culinary school. Residents told police they felt they were being scammed. Police tracked the solicitors down and asked them to leave town.

A young boy reported his bicycle was stolen, then came back to the police station later to register his bike. Turns out his sister had taken it to teach him a lesson.

A Nintendo game was reported stolen from a Martha Road home Monday afternoon.

Police received 16 calls for assistance between 3:30 p.m. Sunday and 3:30 p.m. Monday.

Flathead County sheriff

Flathead County sheriff's deputies arrested a 45-year-old man for partner or family member assault after checking into a call regarding his welfare Sunday afternoon. A woman, concerned about his suicide threats, called a friend asking him to retrieve guns he had stored at the Zimmerman Road house. He got the guns and, as he left their house, allegedly heard a gunshot, so called the sheriff's office. Deputies said the woman had a handgun stored in a drawer but the man, who'd been drinking, denied shooting it.

A 24-year-old man was arrested on assault charges after an altercation with his girlfriend on Birch Drive Sunday night. He took off before deputies arrived, but they tracked him down at a casino.

The arson team was called in to investigate a fire at an unoccupied trailer home on Rhodes Draw early Monday.

Some people were asked to leave a bar west of Columbia Falls about 1 a.m. They refused, so workers called the sheriff's office. They left before deputies arrived.

At 4:45 a.m. Monday a call came in that a 2-year-old child was found alone crying outside apartments on Colorado Avenue in Whitefish. The mother was found at the apartment next door.

Four tires on a vehicle were reported slashed Monday morning at an Edgewood Drive home.

Paintballs defaced a building in the Columbia Falls area.

A pickup truck was found wrapped around a tree on the east side of the Hungry Horse Reservoir Monday morning, but its Hungry Horse owner was nowhere around. It was towed.

A Kings Road resident said somebody entered through the front door of the house and took change from a jar. There are a couple of suspects.

Alleged shoplifting got a boy arrested at an Evergreen sporting goods store.

Threats were traded among a group of kids at an Evergreen campground. A deputy talked to them and they dispersed.

Deputies received 153 calls for assistance between 3:30 p.m. Sunday and 3:30 p.m. Monday.

Kalispell police

A man was hit with a beer glass, the report from an Airport Road bar went, but those involved were too drunk to tell their story to Kalispell police Sunday night. A couple of the men, however, were later arrested for DUI No. 2 and resisting arrest, and for probation violation, when their vehicle was stopped on South Main.

Despite a caller's description of apparent drug activity by a driver and his female passenger, the suspects could not be found.

A neighbor's report that two men broke in and stole a Liberty Street resident's laptop, video camera and digital camera, ended when the laptop and its bag wound up back on her porch.

Blaring music, screaming and yelling from a nearby parking lot didn't sit well with hotel guests Sunday night. Police warned the partying crowd to keep it down.

Seven or eight older men rearranged letters on an East Idaho hotel's reader board to form vulgar words, but the hotel owner was notified and removed the offensive language.

A man was taken to the Kalispell Regional Medical Center emergency room from another East Idaho motel after suicide threats early Monday.

A woman reportedly tried to get narcotics from the emergency room later in the morning, but was told she would be cited for trespassing if she showed up again.

Police received 55 calls for assistance between 3:30 p.m. Sunday and 3:30 p.m. Monday.

Whitefish police

Whitefish police received 24 calls for assistance between 3:30 p.m. Sunday and 3:30 p.m. Monday.

Alarms

Canyon QRU, Hungry Horse and Martin City fire departments and ALERT helicopter were called to a motorcycle accident near the Canyon Baptist Church, where a rider received facial injuries when he hit a guardrail. He was taken to Kalispell Regional Medical Center.

Fire update

Kalispell Interagency Dispatch Center reported that all firefighting resources were pulled off the wildfire burning near Rogers Lake west of Kila by Saturday night. Apparently the fire had not been extinguished, and firefighters are expected to return and continue working the fire this morning.