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Law roundup: Woman slams shot after grocery shopping

Daily Inter Lake | Daily Inter-Lake | UPDATED 2 months, 1 week AGO
by Daily Inter Lake
| August 21, 2026 12:00 AM

Someone allegedly saw a red-haired woman in a parked gold Chevy Tahoe “slam a bottle of vodka.” She was putting groceries in the backseat when officers from the Kalispell Police Department arrived. She reportedly admitted drinking a shot, but the vehicle wasn’t running. Officers didn’t see signs of impairment, advising her about “positive control of her vehicle,” and counseling her on driving with a suspended license. She planned to have a passenger with a valid license drive them home.  

Someone reportedly suspected a hostile woman in a store as the culprit behind their keyed Jeep Renegade.  

A man and woman allegedly shot up drugs in a white SUV while waiting to attend a church dinner. Responding officers did not see anything in plain view.  

A black dually was suspiciously circling the Trade Center building at the fairgrounds and the driver allegedly said some things that made employees uncomfortable.  

An officer “heavily counseled” the driver of a white CRV about the city’s animal cruelty ordinance after they left a poodle inside the parked vehicle. The poodle was alert but panting heavily when the officer arrived at the scene.  

Officers later responded to a report of two panting dogs inside a parked blue Subaru.  

A neighbor’s young daughter allegedly walked out of her house and proceeded to call a woman’s husband a pedophile multiple times until her father came out and “shushed” her while laughing. The woman called the police, voicing concerns that the dad was encouraging the harassment, alleging that every time motion lights came on at the couple’s house it was because the neighbor was there giving them the middle finger.  

A slim man in his 60s, who was wearing a black flower-print shirt, walked by someone's dog, which allegedly started barking at him. He threatened to kill the canine and its owner before continuing walking on Third Avenue West North.  

A skinny woman walking on the side of the road allegedly kept “tipping over” and someone asked officers to do a welfare check.