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Phone call inappropriate, not illegal

Daily Inter-Lake | UPDATED 10 years, 7 months AGO
| May 29, 2014 9:00 PM

A mortified father called the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office after his 10-year-old daughter answered his phone only to hear children screaming and a woman yell for them to be quiet before asking if whoever was on the phone wanted to have phone sex. The man was told the call didn’t meet the standard for privacy in communications charges but that the officer would contact the caller.

A woman called for a police escort on her way to the Kalispell Regional Medical Center so she wouldn’t have to fight through traffic as she transported a 14-year-old boy with gasoline burns to his face.

Woodland Park Drive was temporarily blocked and a pair of vehicles damaged when several logs fell off a logging truck.

A would-be burglar tried to break into an Iverson Lane trailer, using an ax to try and break into a real estate agent’s key box and leaving muddy fingerprints on a rear window.

A pair of drunk men agreed to return to their rooms for the evening after trying to start fights at a Montclair Drive motel.

A pair of bullets were found in the bathroom of a West Evergreen Drive school.

A Kalispell man reported his former jailmate threatened his life.

An unknown vandal left graffiti on grain towers on Jellison Road.

Someone slashed the tires of a pickup truck on U.S. 2 East.


Kalispell Police Department officers were unable to do anything about a pair of drunk drivers overnight Wednesday when one was found outside of his vehicle and the other wasn’t found at all.

The first drunk driver was reported driving 25 miles per hour in a 45 mph zone and swerving, appearing to be missing a passenger tire. One caller reported she followed the vehicle all the way from Kila and could smell burning tires. An officer later located the man, who was obviously drunk, outside a West Idaho Street gas station but did not have enough evidence to prove he had been driving. His sister picked him up after he was advised to come back when he was sober to fix the tire and move the truck.

The second drunk driver was reported by a clerk at a West Idaho Street business where the man was reported as being very drunk, slurring his words and barely able to count his money before driving away, swerving between lanes and nearly hitting another motorist. An officer was unable to locate the man.

A person spraying for weeds on Quarter Horse Lane reported finding a box of .22-caliber ammunition due to concern that it could have something to do with the murder/suicide on Fly Way nearby, but reportedly wanted to keep the ammunition if it was not related.

A Fifth Avenue West residence was added to a list for extra patrols after a resident reported some “monkey business” related to a specific person believed to be responsible for tipping over garbage cans, smashing a mailbox and other vandalism.

A Fourth Avenue West woman reported a teddy bear figurine was stolen from her garage sale table and a woman’s purple dress was left in its place with a note reading “$1,000.”

An angry aunt reported her 24-year-old niece had given the aunt’s 12-year-old son alcohol, marijuana and cigarettes.

Prescription medication, a wallet containing a Social Security card, and $500 in cash was stolen from a vehicle on First Avenue West

Vehicles were vandalized on Appleway Drive and Fifth Avenue East.


An elderly State Park Road woman contacted the Whitefish Police Department for help after her cat got suck in the sewer behind her house. The woman was unable to lift a heavy sewer cover to get to her pet.

Someone keyed a vehicle in a Baker Avenue parking lot.


A Seventh Avenue East North resident complained to the Columbia Falls Police Department that neighboring youths kept bouncing items off the outside of the resident’s garage, making things fall inside the garage. The resident had already spoken to the youths but said it hadn’t done any good.

A man was reported for making threats toward the president of a Ninth Street West bank.

A woman was arrested during a traffic stop on Fourth Avenue West.

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