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Fictitious law officer seeks payment

Daily Inter Lake | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 10 years, 6 months AGO
by Daily Inter Lake
| March 4, 2016 5:16 PM

The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office told a man that a phone call from a fictitious Lt. Jeff Wade was a scam. A man purporting to be Wade had called the man, telling him that he needed to give financial payment for a warrant. A bank helped the man recognize the scheme as a scam before money changed hands. The suspected scammer’s local telephone number was relayed to authorities.

A man told a deputy that his daughter’s skateboard that had been reported stolen had not been found at a Kalispell pawn shop. The man planned to gather more information to relay to the deputies.

A man who appeared to be homeless and under the influence of alcohol scared a clerk at a business and disturbed people at a Lakeside church by making belligerent statements and threatening gestures. A deputy could not immediately locate the man.

A man on Ferndale Drive in Bigfork reported that his wife, who lived out of state, had allegedly embezzled money from his business.

A deputy was unable to locate a man who reportedly ripped up a table was anchored to a wall inside a Lake Blaine Road business. It allegedly took several people to get the man out of the establishment because the man was being combative.

A deputy went to South Hilltop Road to investigate after a person reported hearing several gunshots, then said that her front window had been broken and possibly shot out.

Whitefish Police escorted a woman from a Central Avenue store to the police station after she allegedly used a bad check to pay for a drill and then came back and tried to return the item. The woman belligerently demanded repayment for the item.

Columbia Falls Police took a report from a woman who was assaulted on Third Avenue East and transported to the hospital for treatment.

Kalispell Police responded to a business off U.S. 93 South where a man was hit in the face by another man. The assailant allegedly spit on the victim.

A 12-year-old boy reported that he thought he saw a dead body under a bridge, but an officer determined that he had instead seen a transient camp of people who were still alive.

An ex-boyfriend was counseled after he allegedly kept posting inappropriate messages about an ex-girlfriend on Facebook.

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