The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office was drawn into a Christmas clash between a man, his father and both men’s significant others. The son and his girlfriend initially reported the incident to a Montana Highway Patrol trooper who was busy arresting someone else.

Deputies later discovered the son had gotten into an argument with his father over $125 his father owed him, and that his girlfriend and his father’s girlfriend eventually got into it, leading to a ripped shirt, oatmeal being thrown on someone, and a ring being lost in the snow. No one wanted to pursue charges.

An assault was twice reported on U.S. 2 West, first by a boy who had been at the home where he said someone was “getting the [expletive] beat out of them,” and second by the victim, who said two people dragged him outside the house and beat him up. An officer later reported the two suspects are known drug users.

A dispute over power led to a pair of law enforcement responses to a U.S. 2 West property, where a woman reported her neighbors had previously shut off her electricity until deputies showed up and made them turn it back on. She called back later to say they had turned it off again.

A troubled traveler reported his suitcase — containing the identification he needed to board his train — was stolen from the restroom of the train station. The bag also contained a camera and other electronics valued at $600.

An apparently intoxicated man carrying a briefcase was advised to stay out of traffic and given a ride home after a motorist reported having to swerve in order to not hit him on U.S. 2 East.

A Bigfork man reported someone found a hidden key to his vehicle and stole several items, including a computer and a new bow.

A frustrated Foothill Road resident in Bigfork reported a neighbor’s dogs were barking nonstop, ruining the resident’s holiday.

Deputies were unable to locate a motorist in a Honda reportedly racing loops around a Bluestone Drive neighborhood.

A Birch Drive woman returned home after an hour and a half to find her television was gone.

A South Main Street business and a woman were set at odds over a parking dispute, when a representative of the business called a truck to tow the woman’s vehicle. The woman had different ideas, however, and tried to get in her vehicle after it was already hooked up, calling police herself and saying she was legally parked and had been in the building less than an hour.

A Kalispell Police officer determined the issue was between the towing company and the woman — who was parked where she shouldn’t have been.

A Second Avenue East man scared off a burglar who broke out his window when he confronted the burglar with a gun. The bearded burglar was carrying a tool bag and a crow bar, and managed to escape with the resident’s tackle box.

A woman reported her daughter dropped $300 in a Hutton Ranch Road store and that an employee picked it up and refused to return it, but a responding officer reported there was no proof any money was taken, only that it had been lost.

An officer helped a First Avenue West woman get into her apartment after she locked herself out. She had called for aid after finding a locksmith would charge her $70, asking if anyone could help her without breaking in the door.

A frisky pit bull was transported to the animal shelter and its owner later cited after the animal was reportedly harassing sledders.

A six-man brawl was reported at a U.S. 93 South bar, where one man slammed another man’s head into a table.

An officer gave a drunken man a ride home after he was reported as stumbling around, talking to people who weren’t there and knocking on the back door of someone else’s Eighth Avenue West home.

Helpful passersby helped roll a pickup truck back onto its wheels for a motorist who ran off U.S. 2 West and tipped the truck onto its side.

A trio of adventure-seeking youths found building a ski jump against the side of a Northwest Lane school were told to take it down and clean up their mess.

A parent of a Fourth Avenue West North girl reported a problem with neighbor youths, who had stolen the girl’s guitar and destroyed it in the yard.

A woman was arrested, cited and released after being apprehended while trying to leave a Hutton Ranch Road store with a cart full of merchandise valued at more than $400.

A pair of youths were released to their fathers after being caught violating curfew, walking along U.S. 93 South at 1:40 a.m.

A merrymaking motorist was reported with an open container of beer in his pickup truck on Hutton Ranch Road.

A disorderly man was apprehended at a Hutton Ranch Road store after being caught shoplifting.

A case of a frightened boy led to an unfounded report to the Whitefish Police Department on Dec. 17. A pair of law enforcement officers working surveillance parked in the driveway of an on-duty Whitefish officer, then knocked on the door to tell the officer’s son they were leaving their vehicles there. The scared boy then reported there were unknown men in the driveway and that he thought he had heard gunfire.

A man was reported to police after he passed out in the train station after having been drinking the prior evening. Other people in the station were unable to wake up the man, who had missed his train. It was reported that the station was now closing and the man needed to be removed.

A Wisconsin Avenue man reported a woman was harassing him over the phone and he just wanted her to stop calling him on Christmas Day.

A drunken man reported stumbling and falling in the snow along Skyles Place was picked up by an officer and given a ride.

A Beth Road woman called Columbia Falls Police after receiving six obscene phone calls.