Law roundup: Landlord lashes out at tenants
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It wasn’t a candy cane that a woman’s roommate received from their landlord. She called the Kalispell Police Department to report that their landlord allegedly hit her roommate with a cane and yelled at both. She had questions that were related to the landlord-tenant agreement, which was a civil issue, an officer advised, telling her to seek professional advice from an attorney. The alleged victim did not come to the phone because she was at church.
A mother complained her 19-year-old daughter was being mouthy and screaming at her, wanting officers to remove her from the home. When the dispatcher asked her questions about the situation, she became upset, and they found it difficult to understand her as she was also yelling at her daughter. The mother hung up when the dispatcher tried to get the spelling of her name.
A responding officer observing the scene reportedly noted the mother was “absolutely the escalating factor.” The teen agreed to leave, expressing a desire to get away, and officers stood by as she gathered some belongings, while warning the mother several times to stop interfering.
A man allegedly wanted an incident on the record that his now ex-girlfriend returned a car she had taken. He told officers that he kicked her and her 21-year-old daughter out of the car in case they called the police.
A man allegedly punched someone in the face due to “disrespectful text messages.”
A security employee called the police for assistance removing a male who refused to leave when asked after he allegedly became upset at another guy who walked by his girlfriend and flicked her hair because he knew her.
A welfare check was requested for a person in a sleeping bag, who wasn’t moving, in the parking lot of their apartment building on Meridian Road. Officers talked with the individual, who had been reported missing, and completed paperwork with a nonprofit and contacted his family to try and get him a bus ticket to Washington per his request. His mother forwarded an ID photo after officers were unable to locate his wallet or ID.
A man complained that an older woman he had past issues with, reportedly stole his cup and was stalking and harassing him as he stood on the sidewalk.