Animal Control Officer Paul Charbonneau, with the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office, chased off a bear at a Lake Blaine Drive property with a rock after responding to a barking dog complaint connected to the property. When Charbonneau arrived, he found a young bear he believed to be a black bear that had gotten into a pen and killed three ducklings before climbing up into a tree next to a dog kennel, which is what set the dogs barking and led to the complaint. Charbonneau was able to get the bear to run off when it climbed out of the tree by hitting it in the rear with rock; he  was within 15 feet of the animal at one point. The bear had been in the area for a while according to several neighbors, and a responder from the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks set out a trap for the animal.

A woman was cited for having a dog at large and not having a dog license after a Pleasant Valley Road resident in Marion reported shooting his neighbor’s dog with a .22-caliber firearm after the dog came on his property. A report was written and forwarded to the Flathead County Attorney’s Office for potential animal cruelty charges against the man with the gun.

A Kalispell woman reported her neighbors stole her cat and rabbit, and that when she confronted them she saw her cat in a cage within view of the door and was told that the neighbors let their dog kill her rabbit. When confronted by law enforcement, they denied anything had happened.

A woman was given two citations for having a dog at large and another citation for harboring a vicious dog after her pit bulls again got into the yard of a U.S. 2 East man and were acting aggressively toward his dogs.

A Bigfork resident reported her concern that her neighbor did not seem to be feeding their dogs, llamas, sheep or horses more than once a week and all the animals look very skinny.

A bearded man in dark clothing was reported for dropping his pants and exposing himself to a person before driving off in a sport-utility vehicle.

A Birch Grove Road man reported his mother’s ex-boyfriend was sending him lewd pictures of his mother over his phone.

A Twin Acres Drive man reported a bullet “came straight down from heaven” through the roof of his trailer.

A woman reported a man urinated on her and spit in her face at a Central Avenue bar in Martin City.

Someone threw several rocks through windows of a barn on East Evergreen Drive.

A pair of inmates at the county jail got into a fight.

The Kalispell Police Department received a pair of reports from a Third Avenue West property, first when a woman reported her ex-husband, who hadn’t seen his daughter in two years, had called and said he would be there in half an hour to pick up the daughter and take her to the park with his new girlfriend. The second call came when the ex-husband showed up and attacked the woman’s boyfriend.

A report of a car alarm going off on Greatview Drive turned up a vehicle on fire, the owner of which later called and said people who looked at the vehicle said there was no way the fire was an accident. He said there was a history of disturbances and threats from his soon-to-be ex, against whom he has a restraining order.

A concerned citizen reported school was getting out in seven minutes and there were “a whole bunch of Gideons” handing out Bibles on the sidewalk and wanted an officer to patrol so it didn’t “escalate into something more.”

A man reported he was on lunch break to chat with another man’s wife and that man drove up, pulled him out of her vehicle, threw him to the ground then punched him in the head several times.

The landlord of a Fifth Avenue East property reported she had tenants steal her furniture and leave her with a large water bill.

A man on First Avenue East was warned about leaving his children in his vehicle.

A pair of vehicles on Seventh Avenue West “got smashed” overnight.

A principal at an East Seventh Street school contacted the Whitefish Police Department about a child “with a theft problem” who was in class at the time. The principal had spoken to the child’s parents, who requested an officer respond and speak to them.

A woman was arrested during a traffic stop on U.S. 93 South.