Law Roundup: Officers decline request to get their hands dirty

Someone called Kalispell Police Department to complain about mud left on the road by construction vehicles. Dispatch provided the caller with the number for Public Works.

Some tools were taken from a trailer. 

Multiple vendors at a craft market reported that items had been broken or stolen overnight. 

A brown bulldog was taken to the animal shelter. 

A caller asked officers to trespass two men on his property. The interlopers departed in a blue Dodge truck before police arrived on scene. 

Someone lost their car in a department store parking lot. The vehicle was found in said parking lot 20 minutes later. 

Officers responded to a call about a couple arguing behind some storage units. The man and woman claimed that, while loud, their conversation was not an altercation. 

A driver did not stop or pull over after they sideswiped another vehicle with their truck on U.S. 93. 

A nurse advised officers that an emergency room patient’s ankle monitor was about to die. 

A caller suspected two youths hanging out in a laundry room were “up to no good.” 

Several pieces of wood were cleared from Old Reserve Drive.   

An alarm went off after customers kept trying to access a store that had closed early for a holiday party. 

A disgruntled tenant claimed her landlord turned off her power after she only paid part of the month’s rent. 

A lost vest with a pistol in the pocket was returned to the owner. 

One caller found it suspicious that a couple of guys were hanging out near the garbage cans. 

Someone alleged that “evil people” were driving around loudly.  

One man’s day was soiled after somebody threw a potted plant through the window of his truck.