LAW ROUNDUP: Park streaker later develops shy streak
Daily Inter-Lake | UPDATED 8 years, 8 months AGO
Flathead County Sheriff’s Office received a call about a man who was allegedly seen running through a park on Swan Mountain Drive stark naked. The person who reported the indecent exposure had a suspect in mind, but police could not coax him to emerge from his home.
A man from Bear Trail called after noticing that all the mailboxes in the area appeared to have been opened. There wasn’t a bit of mail in sight, leaving the man to guess that some theft might have occurred.
Someone from Evergreen called to report that his or her son had been given a knife on the schoolbus by another child. The child told the son not to tell anyone. The son turned the knife into school officials.
A deputy spoke to a man who called from Pot Hole Drive in Olney to report that a tent had been stolen in the past two hours. None of the man’s answers to questions about the missing tent made sense, but he gave the deputy an earful about lions, tigers, and bears that were allegedly seen around his tent. The man told the deputy that a turkey that frequented the area had been raised by squirrels. While the deputy found the conversation pleasurable, no headway was made in avenging the alleged theft.
A person on Foothill Drive reported that a window at his or her home appeared to have been shot out.
Whitefish Police took a report about a young woman who was found sleeping in someone’s house without permission. The woman had a hard time getting up from a couch in the home. An officer removed the woman from the home. There was a warrant for her arrest for robbery out of Pennsylvania, but the warrant did not request out-of-state extradition.
A report was taken from Columbia Avenue, where a worker was fired and then allegedly threatened to kill his boss and destroy a work site.
Columbia Falls Police warned a man who kept calling and texting his ex-wife to let her know that he had stalked her the day before. An officer told the woman to log the events and warned the man to stay away.
Kalispell Police collected a stolen gun from a pawn shop after three men and a baby (OK, and a woman) tried to pawn it. The gun had been reported stolen out of Cut Bank.
A driver was found unconscious, but breathing after a rollover crash on Seventh Street West where a power pole was taken out.
Two suspects trying to break into a camper on Teal Drive allegedly took off after its owner caught them in the act and grabbed a shotgun. Officers checked the area, but did not find anyone. Nothing was taken from the camper, but it was damaged.
Officers searched for a woman suspected of criminal mischief after a man called from Woodland Park Drive and reported that the woman, whom he did not know, had come up to his car with a baseball bat and smashed out the front and rear windows.
A woman on Third Avenue East North reported that a man with a flower came up to her and asked her to smell it. The woman said she was not interested and the man became aggressive with her. The man was middle-aged and dressed in a suit. An officer was unable to locate him.