A car took a full load of pumpkins and drove off without paying from a Nucleus Avenue business Wednesday. Officers from the Columbia Falls Police Department found the vehicle parked on Fifth Avenue East North and returned the pumpkins to the store.

Officers were called when a man became belligerent with his neighbor on Third Avenue East on Wednesday afternoon. The man was threatening to bash his neighbor’s truck and told him that if he came over their shared fence, he was going to “get him with his shovel.” Apparently, the neighbor had hit the man’s truck two nights before, and the man brought over the estimate for the damage, leading to the altercation.

Whitefish Police were called when a man was detained for trying to steal a couple of sandwiches from a U.S. 93 South business Wednesday.

Someone called police after finding a day planner in the middle of the highway on U.S. 93 South.

An employee at a U.S. 93 business called the Kalispell Police Department on Wednesday because an intoxicated man was inside the store. He wasn’t causing any problems, but he was making the employee nervous.

Three people were seen fighting and swinging at each other on 10th Avenue West on Wednesday.

A woman called police from Liberty Street saying that she had ordered a pair of shoes online that were never delivered. She was able to get her money refunded from the store — but then noticed her neighbor had the exact same pair of shoes for sale on her Facebook page.

A woman called police Wednesday to inquire whether she could sell a few bottles of liquor in an estate sale.

A woman reported her purse stolen from a U.S. 2 West fast food joint Wednesday evening. A good Samaritan later turned in the purse with nothing missing.

Police were called to a Hutton Ranch Road parking lot because someone called in a suspicious vehicle. The gray van parked there had “religious quotes all over it” and a rifle on the dashboard, which the caller said was fully loaded. When dispatch asked the caller how he knew it was fully loaded, he stated that he “knows a lot about rifles and can tell that it is.” Police located the vehicle, and the gun was fake.

A pickup led police on a brief chase just after midnight Thursday after backing into a fence on Ninth Avenue West. The vehicle was then reported for hitting “numerous cars, trees and a dog house.”

Police were called after a man stopped at a West Idaho Street business around 4 a.m. Friday saying that he “needed greasy food.” The man then proceeded to tell the store employee that he had just stabbed another man and “is crazy and is going to Pathways.” He then told the employee that if he called the cops while he was at the store, he’d kill him. The employee called police as soon as the man left.

A man called police from First Avenue West on Friday to report that the medicine mailed to him by the VA has been stolen the last three months in a row.

The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office received a call from Lake County on Wednesday morning saying that a green Bonneville had been stolen from the Polson area.

Someone called from West Glacier to report that a tan cow has been grazing near the highway for the last week and they were worried it’d get hit by a car.

A Columbia Falls man reported that someone had broken into his storage unit by cutting the lock off and had replaced the lock with a different one.

A man was reportedly walking down North Hilltop Road near Columbia Falls carrying a rifle and not letting vehicles pass. Officers spotted the man, who was carrying a walking stick and not a gun, and noted that he was in the ditch and not the roadway.

A Martin City man reported that his chain saw was stolen from the back of his pickup.

A woman called from Columbia Falls to report that her stepson stole all of her change from her change jar on Wednesday.

A Lakeside man reported having $1,180 stolen from his home, and he believes it was his stepdaughter’s husband that took it.

A Bigfork man called police to ask if he could press charges on another man for trespassing. The man was merely retrieving his wandering goats, so police told him that they could not charge the man for trespassing because his intent was getting the goats.