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LAW ROUNDUP: Woman calls with dagger in her leg

Daily Inter-Lake | UPDATED 8 years, 6 months AGO
| July 27, 2016 6:54 PM

Flathead County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report from a woman on Birch Drive in Kalispell who said there was a dagger in her leg and it was bleeding. She said someone stabbed her. The woman was transported to the hospital.

A resident on Haywire Gulch in Kalispell was “very concerned” about his property when he told dispatchers there was a “strong smell of burning tires” and thought people living nearby might be cooking meth. The man said he also saw smoke coming from a small campfire and thought it could have been burning related to drug activity.

A customer’s laundry was reported stolen along with other store items on U.S. 2 East in Hungry Horse.

A man on Sunset Drive in Kalispell suspected his ex of breaking into his house, gaining entry by breaking a window on the back door.

A two-wheel trade was described as “a little fishy” when a man on Syth Lane in Kalispell said he traded a bicycle for another bicycle and was concerned that it was stolen. However, he did not know the name of the person with whom he conducted the trade.

A business owner on Electric Avenue in Bigfork was frustrated that a man reportedly refused to leave because he was outside pestering underage girls asking them for their names to “Facebook them.”

A woman who allegedly stole from a U.S. 2 East store in Hungry Horse was reportedly back in the store and “stuffing things in her dress,” according to the business owner who hung up on dispatchers and reportedly began chasing the woman.

A man on Lodge Avenue in Coram was awakened one morning by the unsettling feeling of someone’s stare. The man said his ex-wife was allegedly sitting inside his house staring at him. He said he has received two voicemails from her reportedly threatening that “bad things are going to happen to him.”

A man said he was punched in the face by another man on Canyon Road in Hungry Horse because he reportedly wouldn’t go to the liquor store for him.

A tall, blond kid just wouldn’t get the message that he wasn’t supposed to be on the property of a U.S. 2 East business in Kalispell. An employee told officers that the youth was very volatile and aggressive and she was “tired of kicking him off the property.”

A husband did not care for a tattooed and possibly high man who allegedly approached his wife talking about dragons and castles on U.S. 93 North in Kalispell. The man also reportedly said “his dealer’s name was written on his hand” and showed it to him.

A man was allegedly assaulted by his daughter on Mountain Drive in Hungry Horse. The man was watching TV when she reportedly walked in and threw an item at his face, causing a black eye.

An employee on Montana 35 in Kalispell said a “large male” kept bringing knives into the business and allegedly reached for a knife when told to leave. The man, who appeared to be intoxicated, was said to have earlier tried to pull the knife on someone else, but dropped it. The man was then described as “just flopping the knife around in his hand.” Eventually, the man got a ride from a sober friend.


Someone told the Kalispell Police Department that his or her partner was “zip tied” to a table and bleeding in addition to circulation being cut off. Dispatchers gave medical advice and the woman refused to be transported to the hospital.

A woman feared for her life when a man and a woman were banging on her bedroom door with pots and pans. The woman said the pair were screaming about a restraining order and threatened to kill her, saying, “My friend can’t come over. Watch this, I’ll kill you. I’ll kill you.” The woman decided sleeping in her car was safer than being in the house.

A woman said her dog locked her keys in the car while she was pumping gas on U.S. 2 West. The woman told police she had all the paperwork to verify she was the vehicle owner.

Someone thought a drug deal was going on between two people in a vehicle on First Avenue West North and West Washington Street.

A man walking on East Idaho Street may have been indecently exposed as his shorts were allegedly pulled halfway down.

A man allegedly punched another man who pushed him at a bar on First Avenue West and called police because he just “wanted to share his side of the story.”

A passer-by spotted a man and woman fighting inside a van and driving erratically on West Idaho Street.

Someone on Seventh Avenue East said there were alleged prowlers outside possibly casing houses.

Two teenagers on Treeline Road raised the suspicions of someone who thought it was strange that one of them was carrying bolt cutters.


A dad wanted Whitefish Police Department to help him teach his young daughter a life lesson after she reportedly took decorative rocks from a restaurant. He asked law enforcement to meet him at the restaurant where his daughter would return the rocks to help stress the point to his daughter about stealing things.

An officer was requested to check a property on Portage Way where someone had seen a door left open all morning, but couldn’t see the neighbor. Officers secured the door.


A probably panicked person reported a 6-year-old ran off and couldn’t be found. The person told Columbia Falls Police Department that he or she had dozed off and woke up to find the child gone. The boy was found safe and sound in a bedroom closet.

Someone on Eighth Avenue East North heard a child “screaming bloody murder” outside and called police. It turned out to be an argument between a mother and a young daughter who “agreed to go to sleep.”

A man allegedly threatened a woman on Second Avenue West.

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