Law roundup: Woman thinks she can sniff out murderers

A man dressed in black and wearing sunglasses and a bandana purportedly “smelled of murder” to a woman, who was slurring slightly when talking to the Kalispell Police Department. She said he had been hanging around the location for five days and looked like he was packing guns and knives, which she never saw. She reportedly reached this conclusion because of the “costume” he was wearing, which police said was not an actionable reason. 

A woman allegedly found a bottle of methadone on her hot tub cover and was unsure of what to do with it, noting that police had kicked a man out of her backyard the previous day. She was advised to throw it out.  

A woman was allegedly scammed out of $45,000 by a man she met through Facebook who claimed he was working on an oil rig and needed money to “pay off the balance of his contract” to leave. That reportedly turned into requests for money to purchase plane tickets, paperwork fees, “replacement worker payments” and so on. She said she was sent a QR code to scan and send the money. Officers told her it was a scam and to report it to the Internet FBI Crime Complaint Center online at ic3.gov.  

A church pastor reportedly gave officers a letter that contained death threats, noting they had received past threats that were usually sent via church email. The letter was sorted at a post office in Buffalo, New York. 

A man allegedly found a bundle of 30 keys outside and asked police to pick them up.  

A man reportedly thought criminal mischief was afoot when he was having engine problems and smelled gasoline emanating from his diesel truck, thinking someone had put gas in the tank after he filled up. An officer told him he would need to have a mechanic check it out and call back with the findings. Officers also advised him of his warrant.