Dips throw unwanted side of sauce

Kalispell Police Department received a phone call about criminal mischief in the neighborhood when “kids” were reportedly seen driving around throwing fast-food dipping sauce at vehicles.

Someone doing home improvements with their father reportedly found needles and packets of an unknown substance in a crawl space. It’s safe to say this mystery won’t be featured on the television series “If Walls Could Talk.” An officer collected some of the needles, but there may have been more left in the wall.

A woman was afraid a strange man covered in burrs with a teardrop tattooed on his face would return after he allegedly stopped at her house twice asking for things. The first time, he claimed that he fell in a creek, lost all of his stuff and needed a blanket. The second time he asked to use the bathroom, but she did not open the door and told him to find a gas station.

A welfare check was requested for a man reportedly lying on a corner, passed out. The man described as “happy-go-lucky” was supposedly OK and just waiting for the bus.

A man called police to report another man kept driving by and shooting his windows with a pellet gun “almost every night for the last month.” The caller claimed there were pellet holes in the trailer and the windows were shattered. The man reportedly told the caller he couldn’t be arrested because “he’s on the do not detain list or something like that,” but the caller was “finally fed up with what’s happening.”

Someone told police they saw people removing items from a room they thought didn’t belong to the woman who rented it.

A man on Montana 35 in Kalispell, who purportedly had a spider bite and found several spiders in his bed, called Flathead County Sheriff’s Office and told dispatchers he thought he called for an ambulance and wanted to cancel it. Dispatchers assured him that he had not called previously and that an ambulance would not be dispatched.

A Wild Pine Court resident’s security camera reportedly alerted them to a person sitting on their porch in Kalispell. The person was dressed in black and looked like they were on their phone, then left on foot.

Someone on Broken Arrow Trail in Kila told officers a bear reportedly came into a fenced area and killed a goat. The caller claimed a large black bear supposedly broke into their neighbor’s fence chasing goats a few days ago and “earlier this fall” they saw a black bear eating apples from a tree.

Someone on Rocky Cliff Drive in Kalispell read an advertisement for a dog, listing it as a good herding or guard dog, and felt it was an aggressive breed that wasn’t meant to be a pet, but a fighting dog. She was advised that the ad does not mean it’s being sold as a fighting dog.

An Alpine Lane resident in Kalispell reported “a big red truck” hit a speed limit sign, knocking it down, went off the road and through their yard.

A man calling from Somers told deputies his friend received a phone call where someone said “help, my mom and grandma are fighting,” and when they attempted to call back the number a young, crying female answered and hung up. The person wasn’t sure if it was a prank or something more serious. When they allegedly tried to call back while on the phone with dispatchers it went to a generic voicemail.

A man calling from Park Avenue in Kalispell reported his 2007 orange Corvette was stolen after he went to pick it up from a friend’s house and it was gone.

Someone on Reserve Drive in Kalispell requested officers check on the welfare of a man allegedly dressed as a woman seen walking down U.S. 2 holding and yelling at a rearview mirror, smashing it on his head, and jumping in and out of traffic.

Officers responded to a vehicle fire on Montana 35 in Kalispell in the back of a truck. The source of the fire reportedly was a smoldering cardboard box.

A man was allegedly throwing things, spilling pills, calling someone names and refusing to leave a Managhan Lane location in Kalispell.

An out-of-control, intoxicated houseguest was reportedly destroying a woman’s residence on Commerce Street in Bigfork and had two knives, which the caller tried to take away. The woman calling in the report also may have been intoxicated and supposedly said she didn’t want help “because it just wouldn’t matter,” and hung up. She called back and said she didn’t want the unruly guest to go to jail. Instead of jail, the guest was reportedly taken to the airport to catch a plane.