Cash, a hunting jacket and a wallet were reported as stolen to Flathead County sheriff’s deputies from an unlocked vehicle on Aluminum Drive in Columbia Falls. The would-be grinches did not completely hamper the owner’s Thanksgiving festivities however, since the apparent victim headed to Missoula for the holiday before a deputy could arrive.

Deputies responded to a family argument on Sweet Grass Lane where a 25-year-old stepson allegedly took a swing at his stepfather. The stepfather swung back. The younger man also allegedly pinched his stepsister.

A man called dispatch saying that he was furious with a deputy who walked through a home on U.S. 2 near Kalispell to check on a child that someone had called about. The man demanded to speak to the deputy immediately via phone. Dispatchers noted that the man was drunk; moments later he withdrew his demand and said that he loved the deputy.

A woman on Willow Glen Drive reported that she had found a needle near the site where a resident had been busted for having methamphetamine a few months earlier.

Two snowmobiles were stolen from a wooded lot on Lion Trail.

An officer tried to track down the owner of a needle and spoon found in a trash can outside a casino on U.S. 2 near Kalispell. A caller had an idea of who the paraphernalia belonged to because he had heard a man and woman talking about throwing away the items a bit earlier.

A man was removed from a home on Conrad Drive after a neighbor reported that the pair were shouting at each other and had caused the home’s windows to shake. The caller reported hearing a loud thud during the shouting match.

A person on U.S. 2 called to say a 5-year-old child might be endangered because the child was being pulled around a trailer park on a sled by an older car.

A person was concerned that it might be too cold out for a transient man sleeping in a sleeping bag near the Bigfork High School football field, but the man told deputies that he was fine.

A deputy helped a casino worker tell a man to move along after he kept falling asleep at the gambling machines.

Kalispell Police Department cited a woman for trespass and shoplifting after she fled a retail store on Hutton Ranch Road with a purse full of merchandise. She was chased down by a citizen to a nearby hotel, where she was apprehended by authorities.

A short while later another woman fled on foot after stealing from another business on Hutton Ranch Road. She was apprehended and cited for theft, resisting arrest and possession of dangerous drugs.

A woman showed up to the police department to log a report after her mother allegedly pushed her to the ground and bent her neck backwards because of a conflict over where the daughter was going to spend Thanksgiving.

A man on Third Avenue East North reported that his wife was being detained by another man who was pulling her hair and not letting her get into the car and leave the location. The woman did not cooperate with officers at the scene.

Officers counseled a guardian on Tenth Avenue West who said that an 18-year-old was spraying an aerosol can and lighting it on fire as well as burning a pencil. The guardian had told the 18-year-old that he is in the process of being evicted. The guardian was only keeping the boy until he came of legal age.

A woman on First Avenue East was directed to the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office after she said she wanted to claim diplomatic immunity after an unspecified incident in Evergreen. The woman also wanted to obtain an international passport.

Officers were unable to locate a man who allegedly approached a woman after she backed her truck into a parking space at a retail store on Hutton Ranch Road. The man was impatient about the woman’s parking and kept charging at her bumper. The man allegedly chased the woman down once she got into the store and told her how pathetic she was. The woman was recovering from back surgery.

A woman on North Main Street was cited for theft after she took a pair of jeans from a business on North Main Street and walked to a nearby hotel. She was followed and caught hiding inside an either-sex bathroom.

Whitefish Police were notified that a Lakeshore Drive homeowner had found a stray floating canoe.