Cutting in line yields unexpected comeuppance

A woman’s attempt to get ahead in life — and in the checkout line — backfired when she cut in front of a man standing in line because he was purportedly talking to another patron at the time. She told Kalispell Police Department he began belittling and videotaping her.

The signs for Trump and Ford streets were reported missing by someone who didn’t know if they were stolen, or if the street department was doing work in the area.

An employee allegedly found a .380 Ruger pistol in a U.S. 93 North parking lot and believed there was a round in the chamber and possibly seven or eight rounds in the magazine.

A person who was reportedly walking up to car doors and house doors on Fifth Avenue West raised the suspicions of someone who said the person was dressed as a female, but may have been a man wearing a frizzy wig.

A white Ford F150 with a “Montana Weed Control” license plate was reported stolen.

A trio of people was seen rummaging through donation bins.

Someone called police suspecting a few vehicles were mud-bogging without permission on a neighbor’s property. The group was advised they were on private property and they moved along.

A woman said to be with the county Treasurer’s Office reportedly picked up a suspicious looking package wrapped in a garbage-like black bag and wrapped in brown packaging tape contained in a lockbox. The package was reportedly recovered and put into safe keeping.

Someone called 911 requesting extra patrol under the impression that drug activity was occurring when a man was allegedly seen “three times today” with several half-gallon Ziploc bags in his possession.

A woman reported a Peeping Tom, saying she saw a man looking into her living room. The peeper ran away when she walked toward the door.

Someone called 911 to report people “dealing out of the trunk” of a vehicle in a parking lot on Woodland Park Drive. While he didn’t see an exchange he assumed it occurred because he saw four men standing around the vehicle and one of them supposedly dipped his hand in the trunk, then smelled and tasted it.

A resident was surprised by a neighbor in an alleyway, but not in a good way, when they reportedly started to “freak out” and threatened to harm her over city ordinance violation complaints she made.

A man fell for a computer scam when someone called him and he granted them access to his computer to purportedly destroy malware and now he could not “get control of his computer back.”

A man allegedly broke into a woman’s room, trashed it and stole her purse and $200.

Two people in a pickup were reportedly throwing fireworks at vehicles and headed westbound on U.S. 2.

Dispatchers received a call and heard someone yelling, “My 33-year-old son is intoxicated and causing problems.” There were reportedly at least two couples arguing outside, and one of them was upset about the supposed “intravenous drug users that live here.”

Two women were seen fighting, when one of them was allegedly kicked in the ribs. The pair then “wrestled a bit” to get to a phone.

Someone went outside for a smoke when a woman, possibly a roommate, supposedly threatened to fight them and knock their teeth out. This may have stemmed from the person confronting her about being respectful because she allegedly wakes people “very early in the morning” by slamming doors and yelling.

A woman reported an external hard drive containing business information was stolen from her office.

A driver who “seemed out of it,” and suspected to be driving under the influence allegedly forgot his glasses and couldn’t see.

A storage unit owner found backpacks and wanted drug dogs to sniff them before disposal because he purportedly “didn’t want them in his vehicle if they were contaminated with drugs and then have that show up later in his vehicle.”

Whitefish Police Department received a report of a man reportedly under the influence who was “talking crazy stuff” about his girlfriend being in a jar and his dead parents in the street.

Someone on U.S. 93 said a couple who “could barely walk straight,” was spotted getting into a vehicle and driving westbound on Flathead Avenue.

Employees wanted a man removed from a train who reportedly harassed a woman and may have been involved in an indecent exposure incident.

Someone on Ninth Street requested Columbia Falls Police Department do a walk-through after denying service to a man with missing teeth who was reportedly talking to himself after a beer and a shot.

A woman allegedly jumped out of a moving truck, according to someone calling from Nucleus Avenue, and was “all bloody.”