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Whitefish thieves have busy weekend

Daily Inter Lake | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 9 years, 2 months AGO
by Daily Inter Lake
| November 17, 2015 10:00 AM

A resident called Whitefish Police to report several cars on East Lakeshore Drive had been broken into and rifled through, but nothing had been stolen. A few blocks away on Houston Point Drive, a resident reported two wallets stolen from an unlocked car. A man also reported his professional grade power drill stolen from his garage on East 4th Street, and a woman reported a purse stolen from her unlocked vehicle on Central Avenue.

Someone reported a deer needed to be dispatched because its leg had been “blown off” near JP Road.


A woman living at a new residence called Columbia Falls Police after she heard someone trying to enter through the back door and drive away through the alley after finding the door locked.

Someone living in an apartment building on First Avenue East called police to report the heaters in the building are too hot.


Someone hit a traffic sign on Woodland Avenue across from the Conrad Mansion, leaving the sign angled out into the road, according to the Kalispell Police Department.

A handful of panhandlers were reported hollering at cars driving by on U.S. 93.

A resident near Flathead High School called police to report youths spinning doughnuts near the parking lot.

A Sixth Street West resident was on the receiving end of a dry ice bomb. The caller found plastic debris in the yard but didn’t see a vehicle.

A Wind River Drive resident finally called police after persistent barking from small and large dogs next door.

Someone witnessed a drug deal on Sunny View Lane between a man on a mountain bike and a person in the back seat of a red Mazda or Toyota sedan.

A man found his stolen truck in a parking lot near the Spring Prairie shopping district. Another person found his stolen longboard at a local pawn shop just hours after it had gone missing from his cousin’s house.

A security guard for a Heritage Way business called in police backup after finding an open door on the premises.

Someone heard a single gunshot near Eighth Avenue West.

An employee at a U.S. 93 business called police to report a man she believed could be wanted for burglary at the airport.

A U.S. 93 business employee caught someone stealing another employee’s backpack on a security camera.

A suspicious-looking man was reported walking around a parking lot on East Idaho Street. The caller said the man kept walking back and forth between the alley and the parking lot for about 20 minutes.

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