The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office was clued in to a possible stalker when a woman reported running into a man at her home Thursday, after she’d bumped into him at a Bigfork gas station in February. The man told her Thursday what times she comes and goes, what vehicles are at her house and other things she had been doing. She said she hadn’t seen him since the gas station meeting until he stopped by her house and started to share all the details of her life that he knew.

A woman taking some guests on a horseback ride to the top of Spencer Mountain reported coming across a boy about 16 years old with an older man coming down the trail. The boy reportedly seemed very frightened, with wide eyes, and was out of breath. She said neither said anything or acted out of the ordinary in any other way.

A lost-for-words landlord called to report a former tenant abandoned tarantulas and more than 50 rats when he moved out of a Trails End Drive property.

Child Protective Services contacted the sheriff’s office to report a 13-year-old girl who spanked a 5-year-old she was baby-sitting, leaving bruises.

A U.S. 2 West woman reported her neighbor’s dogs were out again and in her barn peeing on all of her personal items.

A report of fireworks going off and debris falling on the roof of a Snowshoe Flats home turned out to be unfounded. The noise actually was the result of a person using a shotgun to shoot a beehive out “in a safe manner.”

The landlord of a Twin Pines Drive property reported a recently evicted family sent their children in through the windows of the home — which had new locks — to unlock the home and let them in to move their stuff back inside.

A Sherman Road man overheard his son and his son’s friend discussing selling and using drugs.

A transient was banned from a park after pacing around and shouting obscenities.

A group of six youths about 10 years old were counseled and moved along after being reported standing on either side of the road and pretending to hold a rope across the road and cursing at cars when they passed.

The Kalispell Police Department was tipped off to a drunken driver when he and his passengers were reported swerving into the drive-thru of a U.S. 2 West fast-food restaurant, screaming and cursing at the employees. The driver was also slurring his words. After officers responded, a sober driver showed up to take the vehicle, and the driver was arrested and taken to jail.

A report of a man in a Liberty Street parking lot yelling, screaming, kicking a fence, and throwing a chair over a fence turned out to be a man and a woman who decided 3 a.m. was a good time to move a bench that he had bought at a garage sale. He agreed to try to keep the noise down.

After responding to a report of a man on 10th Avenue West smoking a joint, drinking a beer and trying to pick fights with people by yelling and flipping them off, an officer reported two of the three individuals he made contact with “decided it was in their best interest” to keep drinking their beer after being told to pour them out. The pair were cited and released for having an open container, while the third man poured out his beer and moved along.

A concerned passerby led a roughly 4-year-old girl back to the girl’s home by luring the girl with a Popsicle after finding the girl walking by herself along Fourth Avenue East. The passerby told the girl’s 20-something parent that she found her child wandering outside, and the mother said nothing, taking the child back inside.

The Whitefish Police Department responded to several reports of transients around town.

A pair of transients in sleeping bags were moved along after being reported sleeping between a church and a business on Central Avenue. A transient camp just east of Wild Rose Lane was cleared out. A couple of transients on East 13th Street were moved along. Finally, a group of five or so transients with dogs on Spokane Avenue were advised to move along.

The manager of a Bay Point Drive property reported someone had tied a fawn to a tree with a rope. A doe and sibling of the animal chewed part of the rope and freed the fawn from the tree, but the rope was still tied around its neck, choking it.

A mountain lion was seen running across Big Mountain Road near Lakeshore Drive.

A woman was assaulted with a broom on Flathead Avenue.

Columbia Falls Police officers were called to Nucleus Avenue to handle an escalating situation involving three boys. The boys were grabbed by “some lady” and accused of stealing, but it was determined that the complaint was unfounded and the boys hadn’t stolen anything.

A patron at a Nucleus Avenue bar reported a man choked them and tried to start a fight.