Mystery messages: 'Babe I did it'

The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office received a report from someone on Berne Road in Columbia Falls who received suspicious text messages from a stranger that read, “Babe I did it I robbed him I just walked up and got him with the gun,” “Babe get up I will text you pics of the money,” “Babe get up talk to me.” The last two messages were picture messages that the receiver did not download or open. The phone number showing was from Cut Bank.

An Australian shepherd named Coco got feisty when it bit a school employee’s calf while on the run with Dipper, its partner in crime, on Danielson Road in Kalispell.

A neighbor on Rocky Meadows Loop in Kalispell said she could smell chemicals, possibly chlorine, in the back of her yard. She said she had ongoing issues with neighbors she thought were intentionally putting the chemicals on her yard so she won’t let her dog outside. The woman’s past complaint against the neighbors was that they set up an electrical grid “that was blocking the airwaves.”

Two adults were seen dragging a screaming and crying child on Solberg Drive in Kalispell. It was later discovered they were on their way to school and the child did not want to go.

A storage unit on Wild Flower Lane in Columbia Falls was burglarized.

A manager reported a woman — to whom he had rented a space for her camper — because he received several complaints from residents of suspicious activity where men were coming and going carrying duffel bags from her camper.

Someone said a man driving a red Suburban, pulling a homemade trailer and allegedly going more than 75 miles per hour, pulled out in front them and that they had to swerve to miss him. The Suburban then sped up behind them, passed them and was “driving crazy.”

Two men were pushing each other and yelling on Sloan Lane in West Glacier. Police were cautioned that one of the men is able to slip a hand out of handcuffs because of a missing finger and had a prior weapon conviction.

Someone allegedly linked a man recorded on video stealing items from a U.S. 2 East Kalispell store to a Facebook profile.

Copper wiring was reported missing from a cellphone business on Montana 35.

A distressed mother on 12th Avenue West called the Kalispell Police Department to say her daughter was being held hostage and locked in a bathroom at a residence near Foy’s Lake. The mother said the residents may be cooking meth.

A woman on Sixth Avenue West ripped up a potentially fake check she received for more than the sale price of a pair of leggings she was selling on Craigslist because the man buying them asked her to cash it and send the extra money back.

A dog with a broken chain was running loose around Three Mile Drive.

A mother who had been drinking filled out a statement that her 23-year-old daughter used her credit card without her permission.

The Whitefish Police Department received a report from a man on Mill Avenue who said a strange man came up to his house and said that UPS delivered something to their house that was meant for him. He said the man asked questions as if he was trying to figure out when he would be home.

A pharmacist on Nucleus Avenue advised the Columbia Falls Police Department that two subjects came in trying to fill out controlled substance prescriptions under a deceased person’s name.

A single-vehicle rollover on U.S. 2 blocked traffic for a time four miles east of Coram  Friday morning.

 Somers-Lakeside Fire Department responded to an illegal burn on Pine Needle Drive in Lakeside.