Case of the suspicious treehouse sleepover

A Seventh Street West busybody who earlier called in a complaint about a barking dog, wanted Kalispell Police Department to know that after an officer left the residence, she allegedly heard a woman say “they are gone, you can come down now,” and a woman came out of a treehouse. The woman making the report found it suspicious “that someone would hide in a treehouse” when law enforcement was there. Turns out, it was just teenage girls having a sleepover in a treehouse. Mystery solved.

Summer shenanigans are in the air when a man on Rollerblades was spotted drinking a tallboy, hooting and hollering.

A driver was spotted driving recklessly, blaring an air horn and doing burnouts near East Idaho Street. The driver apparently did not stop blaring the air horn while waiting in a drive-thru line.

Someone reported hearing a Suburban full of teenage hooligans, who may have been drinking, threatening three other teens before heading east on Second Street.

An ex-roommate reportedly broke into a residence, damaging the door.

A man and woman were allegedly yelling at each other and fighting when the woman started running and the man followed on South Main Street. Officers counseled the couple. A later call came in regarding the man, who apparently was shirtless, and was yelling “at the top of his lungs.” The caller claimed his wife saw the man “smash a girl’s head into the ground earlier.” The caller was “super upset” that officers didn’t arrest the man earlier. The caller said he would like the man arrested now, but refused to give his name and hung up.

After reportedly listening to a neighbor screaming for over an hour, someone called it in and said it was a man and woman yelling at each other, however, the man “hasn’t said much.”

Someone reported a stop sign was lying in the street at Second Street East and Woodland Avenue.

A woman told police that a transient broke into her camper while it was being stored, lived in it and trashed it before leaving.

An altercation allegedly occurred on East Idaho Street when a white pickup pulled in front of a woman’s vehicle then a man reportedly got out and smashed her windshield and damaged a mirror. The suspect was described as an older male with a “beer belly,” beard and bleeding hand. Police were cautioned the man may potentially be carrying a rifle and knife in his vehicle.

Flathead County Sheriff’s Office received a report that a man riding a bicycle was carrying a rifle and hiding it with his shirt on East Cottonwood Drive in Kalispell.

Someone was suspicious of a vehicle on Grand Drive in Bigfork that was allegedly left running all night in a parking lot with no one inside and a cell phone plugged in. Turns out someone was just charging their cellphone.

A gun was reported lost in Trumbull Canyon Road in Columbia Falls.

A man on U.S. 2 East wanted to report that another man had reportedly thrown his cellphone against a wall, shattering it.

Several pigs reportedly broke free of their pen not far from Helena Flats Road.

Two calves were spotted on the road on South Foys Lake Drive in Kalispell. Passers-by reportedly corralled the animals into a ditch. Eventually the cows were guided back inside fencing.

Someone on East Second Street told Whitefish Police Department he saw a man lying on the ground, on his back with his knees up, arms at his side and was shaking his head back and forth. The man said the man appeared to be in distress, but didn’t stop to ask if he needed assistance.

A man on West Eighth Street reported that his mailbox was allegedly broken by kids two weeks ago and wanted to report the incident as he was replacing the mailbox.

A woman on Spokane Avenue felt that an officer who reportedly pulled her over a few weeks ago didn’t give her license back.

A Central Avenue business reported that a mother and three teens allegedly stole items from the store.