Law roundup: Couple scrubbed from beauty store
Daily Inter-Lake | UPDATED 1 month, 1 week AGO
A middle-aged man allegedly shoplifted products from a store’s health and beauty section and went to a car parked out front to wait while the woman he was with went through the line at the registers. Try as he might to reverse the signs of aging, an employee preferred that he reverse his unlawful behavior, telling someone that he “needs to be honest.” The store didn’t want a rinse-and-repeat situation and banned the couple for a year.
A special agent with the Army Criminal Investigation Division contacted the Kalispell Police Department, wanting to speak with a supervisor.
Someone was suspicious of two people on a bike, reportedly loading things onto a trailer with stuff strapped to it. Officers spoke to a woman on a bicycle who said she was gambling with her friend and they stopped in the parking lot to decide if they could “get another five in” at the casino. She also told the officer that she's a frequent dumpster diver.
A woman thought the occupants of a black compact car were “up to no good” and doing drugs because the car was allegedly parked against the chain link fence at one end of the parking lot, but didn't see the vehicle herself, saying she got a call from another tenant.
An officer checked on a sleepy delivery driver who said they were spending the waiting time between orders napping.
A father trying to put his child to bed for the night was reportedly unable to do so because of a man blasting music from an SUV while working on a gold minivan.
Hotel security called the police for assistance in getting a disruptive guest to pack up her bags and leave.
A woman noticed a license plate on her vehicle was gone and called the police, concerned that it could be “used in a crime.” She was sure it hadn’t fallen off, saying it had been screwed in tightly. She also noticed the screws were still there, which she thought was odd, adding to the mystery.
A man clocking out for the day called the police when he spotted a former coworker, whom he had run into earlier, sitting in a truck in the parking lot, concerned that he was waiting to beat him up. The pair reportedly got into an argument more than a month ago, in which the other man damaged his wife’s car. Officers advised him to apply for a restraining order.