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LAW ROUNDUP: Mysterious payoff in bar nixed

Daily Inter-Lake | UPDATED 8 years, 7 months AGO
| June 3, 2016 7:30 PM

The Whitefish Police Department took a report from a man who allegedly had done some interior design work for a Canadian client who had not paid a bill. The client said the man made her uncomfortable, she did not want to meet him alone at a bar to pay him as he proposed, and that the job had just been finished. She said that she would leave the money with the bartender.


Columbia Falls Police fielded a call from a man who wanted to retrieve his property from his ex-girlfriend, but was having little luck. The man was given advice.


Kalispell Police referred a family to the school resource officer after their son allegedly was the victim of escalating bullying. The boy claimed that someone had defecated in his water bottle.

A woman in Arizona reported that her rental home in Kalispell was being posted on Craigslist in a scam.

A woman said that her boyfriend had been arrested at First Avenue East the night before and that friends offered to take care of his vehicle for him. The woman said the friends now hung up when she called and that she was having difficulty retrieving the vehicle.

A woman on Idaho Street was counseled after she called to report that her child had gotten out of control.

An officer responded to Northern Lights Boulevard after someone reported that a man was drunk and screaming. The man was allegedly supposed to report to jail earlier in the day to turn himself in, but the jail was full, so he returned home to drink instead. The alleged offender agreed to go inside, sleep it off and stop bothering the neighbors.

A woman was taken to another motel after she tried to check into a hotel and became hostile. She allegedly screamed and spat on money when staff asked for a security deposit. The woman had already been banned from one hotel, but officers found another one that was likely to take her.

A person on Northern Lights Boulevard reported that a man was banging on the window to an apartment, trying to get in. An officer returned the man to his own residence. His girlfriend promised that she would try to keep him under control.


The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office received a report from Evergreen, where a business owner reported that someone had allegedly stolen $4,000 since April.

A man was told to stay 600 feet from a Martin City home after he allegedly came in and ransacked it while his wife was gone. The two are in the process of divorcing and the man has been ordered by the court to have no contact with her.

A woman on Eckelberry Lane in Columbia Falls reported that foreign scammers kept calling her, threatening to rape her or harm her granddaughter if she did not send them money.

A woman in Bigfork was told that she should get a civil attorney after she allegedly used her truck as collateral for a loan and was unable to get the lender to give the truck back after she paid the debt off.

A Columbia Falls woman allegedly found a threatening letter in her mailbox. The woman thought it might have been sent by a man who allegedly had been stalking her daughter.

A Marion man asked that a deputy give a neighbor a verbal warning after a dog allegedly killed one of his chickens.


The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office took a report from a woman on Old Montana 2 who complained that goats kept getting into her property.

An officer performed extra patrol after someone reported that three teens were allegedly seen hanging out on the roof of a school concession. The officer noted that no damage was observed.

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