Man allegedly stealing cart full of groceries gets Tased in Kalispell

Kalispell Police officers used a Taser in pursuit of a man who tried to steal an entire cart of groceries from a Third Avenue East North supermarket. Statements were collected from the parties involved.

Officers responded to a drive-through parking lot on U.S. 2, where a former law enforcement officer said he believed a man was passed out from drug usage in a car. There was a toddler not buckled in the back seat of the car.

Officers could not determine the owner of a boat that was left near the parking lot of a drive-through restaurant on East Idaho Street. Staff thought the boat might have been stolen.

An arrest was made after a woman on Windward Way reported that someone came to her door and wouldn’t leave. The man and woman at the door told the woman in the house that they had a gun and would shoot through the door to get in.

A woman said she offered to give a drunken friend a ride home. The woman stopped at a store on Hutton Ranch Road and when she returned, her vehicle was gone. The vehicle was found an hour later in another part of town. The owner did not want to press charges.

Parents on Fourth Street West were counseled after reports a 15-year-old girl was being allowed to have alcohol because of photos seen posted on Instagram.

People were charged with trespassing from a Fifth Avenue East residence after a property owner reported that people were on his property taking photos over the top of a fence. The property owner said he intended to shoot the suspects if cops did not arrive quickly. Fortunately for everyone involved, law enforcement arrived a few minutes later.

A hockey coach told the Whitefish Police Department that his players overheard two men who were walking on Wisconsin Avenue say that they should burglarize the vehicles in the parking lot because they would be left alone all night as the team traveled. Officers checked the area but did not locate the suspects.

A man reported that there was a stone about the size of a softball on the white line of U.S. 93 South in front of a panhandler. The man was worried a car would hit the rock and injure the panhandler. The panhandler told officers that he put the rock there so people would not hit him with their vehicles. Officers made the panhandler remove the rock.

A worker at a Central Avenue hotel asked what the business’s options were after a guest left a dog in a room unattended. The dog was barking at around midnight and waking guests.

Columbia Falls Police were unable to locate a man someone reported as lying on the side of the roadway on U.S. 2, just after midnight.

A woman on Ninth Street West was told three was nothing police could do about someone who drove past her place of employment on a bicycle despite a no-contact order that had been filed. The no-contact order had not yet been served.