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Unusual punishment draws attention

Daily Inter-Lake | UPDATED 10 years, 8 months AGO
| May 6, 2014 9:00 PM

A disturbed passerby reported seeing a young boy approximately 6 years old standing in an East Idaho Street parking lot being made to hold a sign about kicking a classmate as punishment by his parents. The passerby said she didn’t think it was right and asked that he be checked on. A responding officer from the Kalispell Police Department reported the boy was suspended from school and this was part of his punishment, of which he had 10 minutes left, also reporting the boy was “well-supervised.”

An upset Belmar Drive resident reported people attending a meeting at a neighbor’s house were parking on the resident’s lawn, which had just been seeded. A member of what turned out to be a Bible study group nearby was told of the issue and agreed to pass on the message to “be more respectful and not park on other people’s yards.”

A frustrated First Avenue West resident called police twice within a little more than an hour early Tuesday morning after someone buzzed his apartment from a downstairs call box three times within an hour then another four to five times.

A trio of minors were cited for being in possession of an intoxicating substance after being chased down by an officer following a 911 hang-up near Denver Avenue.

A woman who was seen driving a vehicle that hit a parked car, then moved to a different space, was subsequently arrested for drunk driving.

Different people were reported dumping their garbage into city dumpsters on Eighth Avenue West and Glenwood Drive within half an hour.

A bicyclist was injured when he was struck by a vehicle on East Idaho Street but declined medical treatment.

A persistent burglar broke into a Third Avenue East storage unit that had not one but two locks.


A man contacted the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office to report his ex-wife’s daughter’s grave had been dug up. When he contacted his ex-wife, she told him she knew and would not tell him anything further as he was not the deceased girl’s biological father. He told police his ex-wife has had the child’s body dug up before and reburied elsewhere, which he believed she was doing again. He was advised his ex-wife could do as she saw fit with her child’s body.

Deputies responded twice to a Woodland Road property, first when a man complained a neighbor was revving his truck’s engine, possibly trying to get the man to come outside. The man said the sound woke him up and had been running for more than two hours. Deputies responded a second time when the neighbor reported the man, who was possibly drunk, had come over and was beating on his vehicle. The man was arrested by a deputy who had to stop on the way to the jail because the man began pounding his head against the cage.

A man in shorts and a serape was warned about his activity after a Shady Lane resident reported warning the man that he was trespassing, at which point the man shot toward the resident’s “no trespassing” sign with a slingshot.

A Capistrano North East resident reported something got into her chicken coop and killed all her chickens. An animal control officer reported his belief that a wild animal had killed the chickens, possibly a coyote or a fox.

A woman reported an unknown burglar had broken into her office and laundry room three times within a week. She said she was going to set up cameras.

A pair of men with long guns were reported crawling around a Highland Ridge Drive property wearing ghillie suits. A deputy was unable to locate the camouflaged men.

A man reported that another, currently incarcerated, man had previously stolen several tools from his shop and that he had found them at a pawn shop.

An East Oregon Street man reported another man had just hit his mother’s truck with a blunt object, denting it and shattering the rear window.

A West Cottonwood Drive man reported his drunk girlfriend assaulted and bit him. A deputy gave the man a ride to a motel.

Tools were stolen out of a locked tool shed on East Reserve Drive and grinders and batteries stolen out of vehicles.

Deputies were unable to locate a motorist reported smoking drugs out of a pipe while driving up U.S. 93.

A man was reported for stealing hygiene products from a U.S. 2 East apartment.

A loose pit bull charged a girl on Nicholson Drive.

A storage unit was burglarized on Jensen Road.


A Whitefish Police Department officer arrested a man for possession of a stolen vehicle after being called by a U.S. Border Patrol agent to assist with investigation of a vehicle parked in front of a driving range.

Several customers and an employee at a Central Avenue bar reported someone had tied up a dog outside and that the animal had been barking for two or three hours straight.

A Birch Drive man reported he heard from his parents that their elderly neighbor on Wedgewood Lane has 100 cats.


Columbia Falls Police Department officers arrested a pair of men who were caught inside a Fourth Avenue West apartment they had no right to occupy.

A debit card was stolen from a Nucleus Avenue vehicle.

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