Law roundup: SWAT responds to report of man with sword

The Kalispell Police Department responded to a disturbance involving a 31-year-old man allegedly armed with a sword in the area of Two Mile Drive on Friday. The Northwest Montana Regional SWAT Team was dispatched to the scene and took the suspect into custody.

A CFO called the police to report fraud after a customer allegedly wrote a $141,754 check from a closed bank account to buy a Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 convertible.

A blond man, who reportedly kept returning to a business to dumpster dive for vapes, pushed the envelope when he tried opening the locked back door and then turned to trying the doors of vehicles. Rather than disappearing in a cloud of smoke, he was detained by officers who told him he was banned forever, according to the manager.

A woman allegedly picked up a dog and threw it into the back of a white, beat-up pickup, then threw the dog again to the front of the vehicle.

Someone complained that people and dogs were living out of a black bus parked in the area for several weeks. 

A man driving a ’90s green pickup with an American flag in the back allegedly backed into the side of a woman’s vehicle and left the scene. Her husband called the police and alleged that the driver was intoxicated.

A man allegedly swung by his wife’s apartment and set their dog loose and left. She reportedly said they were separating and she didn’t want to take care of it, nor had permission from the landlord to keep it. When she was told the matter was a civil issue, she reportedly said she would just bring the dog back to his house. An officer advised her not to escalate the situation to the point where it became a criminal matter.

A man reportedly picked one of two locks at a bay where a business collected money, emptied it of the cash and replaced the lock.

Someone allegedly left work to find an empty spot in the bike rack where they had parked their lime green Trek Marlin 5 mountain bike. He reported the stolen mountain bike.