LAW ROUNDUP: 'Froggy' license plate owner unclear
Daily Inter-Lake | UPDATED 9 years, 2 months AGO
Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies told landfill staff to call back if someone in a green truck with a brown stripe and the license plate “froggy” returned to a green-box site. The person driving the vehicle allegedly had harassed staff there. A deputy ran the truck’s plates, which came back as registered to a 1978 Midget out of Eureka, which made officers wonder if the plates might be fictitious.
Deputies counseled parties at Bierney Creek Road after a disturbance between a husband, wife and roommate. The husband allegedly had an affair with the roommate, which upset the wife. The wife was served a restraining order and told she had until noon the next day to leave.
Deputies responded after a man on Castle View Road called Sen. Jon Tester’s office claiming that he was going to kill his neighbor. The man said the neighbor thought he accused him of having sex with his wife and molesting his daughter. The man allegedly suffers from mental health issues.
A man on Fourth Avenue South reported that his landlord showed up with a pipe wrench and threatened to beat him. The landlord’s wife allegedly also showed up on scene with a hammer. Deputies tried to locate the landlord, who had left the scene.
A 39-year-old woman was escorted to jail after she drunkenly hit, bit and scratched a man on Helena Flats Road. The woman has had problems with disorderly conduct in the past.
A person reported that three people were breaking apart a newspaper box on Schrade Road. The caller thought the people might be trying to steal quarters from the machine. Deputies were unable to locate the suspects.
A mom on Stag Lane took away her child’s iPod after she discovered that the 11- or 12-year-old was having inappropriate conversations with a friend of the same age. Officers counseled the woman on her options.
Deputies worked to defuse a situation on Lower Lost Prairie Road in Marion after a man reported that a woman had thrown an ax into a wall during a disagreement. The man said the woman had thrown numerous other items around as well during the fight. He said she was a business partner who has mental health problems. When law enforcement found the woman, an ambulance was called because she said that the man had her on the ground kicking and punching her.
Marijuana was found in a Bigfork High School student’s truck and the student was suspended.
A woman on Rodeo Drive in Columbia Falls said that her neighbor had driven at a high rate of speed, honked his horn and tried to hit her with his vehicle. The woman did not want to file a complaint, but wanted an officer to talk with the man about his driving.
Whitefish Police helped a man from Sacramento find his way out of a bank. A teller said the man told staff that he was on parole. Staff said the man, who appeared to be a transient, kept flitting in and out of businesses in town.
Columbia Falls Police performed extra patrol on Ninth Street West where thieves had tried to access a machine that holds coins by drilling into the machine.
Kalispell Police gave advice to a woman who said that her boyfriend blamed their breakup on her and that he was vandalizing vehicles on her East Washington Street property as revenge.
A woman was assaulted in a store on U.S. 93 — a man grabbed a woman by the throat before he fled.
A woman on Airport Road reported a suspicious person after he boyfriend saw men emptying gun cartridges into a dumpster. Officers found that there was nothing suspicious that happened at the sight and that the men had thrown away bird carcasses.
A building on Second Avenue East was evacuated after a gas line was hit with a shovel.
Needles found on a sidewalk on Third Avenue East North were collected by an officer.