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Gas-main fix slows U.S. 2 traffic

Daily Inter-Lake | UPDATED 10 years, 6 months AGO
| July 2, 2014 9:00 PM

A gas-main incident Wednesday morning restricted southbound traffic on U.S. 2 in Evergreen just north of Montana 35.

The problem began before 10 a.m. and limited traffic until shortly before 4 p.m.

Both southbound lanes were closed and traffic was reduced to one lane (the center turn lane). Northbound traffic was not affected.


The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office was called for assistance with a man who urinated on the Amtrak train Tuesday. The man was removed from the train for indecent exposure.

A man calling from Dolphin Drive said he was assaulted by a woman who also threw his walker around, damaging it. He threatened to kill the woman if she comes back.

Two vehicles were broken into on Shadow Lane, with a gun and some items being stolen.

A woman was cited for shoplifting from a store on U.S. 2 in Evergreen.

A man suspected of passing a counterfeit $100 bill at a casino on U.S. 2 in Evergreen returned to the casino, where he was taken into custody for an interview. He also had multiple outstanding warrants.

A storage unit was broken into and items were stolen on Conestoga Court.

Someone reported an altercation between a man and a female lifeguard at the water slides outside of Columbia Falls. It turned out to be a verbal dispute only.

A Trumble Creek Road resident said that people in a van entered the reporting party’s garage and stole some gas.


Kalispell Police got a report Tuesday from Third Avenue East about two neighbors trying to get two drunk men out of a truck so they would no longer be on the road.

A Third Avenue West North resident said a suspicious person opened her screen door and she requested an extra patrol in the area.

Loud music from a vehicle on Sixth Street West triggered an altercation between two men who live next door to one another. The car owner said he was testing his speakers and his neighbor threatened to hit him. Apparently there is an ongoing feud between the two.

Early Wednesday, just after midnight, a woman calling from Liberty Street called to say her boyfriend came to her apartment and beat her up. The man was located and arrested for partner-family member assault.

Officers responded to a report of a woman screaming very loudly on West Washington Street. It turned out the woman had just learned a friend died.

A mother called to say her daughter was intoxicated at her boyfriend’s house on Rockefeller Drive. The boyfriend wanted her to leave but she was refusing to do so.

An intoxicated man was escorted from a property on First Avenue West after he refused a manager’s request to leave.


Whitefish Police got a report Tuesday about several youths stealing drinks from a pallet on a Coca Cola truck on U.S. 93 South.

Staff at North Valley Hospital said that a patient provided them with two different identities on two different nights. Some kind of fraud was suspected.

A person calling from U.S. 93 South reported the theft of items out of the back of a pickup truck.


Columbia Falls Police got a report early Wednesday about an intoxicated man kicking doors and wanting to fight other people in a house on Seventh Avenue East North.

 

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