Soda machine sprays toxic substance

Kalispell Police Department responded to a parent’s concern that soda machines on Sixth Street West were possibly sprayed with pepper spray after their daughters’ hands and eyes were reportedly “burning and red” after they got sodas. Police determined pepper spray was sprayed into the soda machine dispensers and may need to be cleaned. “Out of order” signs were reportedly posted and a service employee contacted to clean the machines.

A store employee thought a woman donning a bowler hat “shot up” in the bathroom after the employee reportedly found a needle. The woman continued to be frightening when she was seen “destroying everything in the Halloween aisle.”

Someone was suspicious after seeing someone throw a backpack out the window of a swerving truck whose occupants were pushing each other.

A woman reportedly took off after assaulting another woman at a casino.

Someone found a gun lying in a yard.

A woman reported her neighbor’s “big dog” was in the area where she parks her car and claimed it was “a little aggressive.” Officers “put the big, loveable dog back in its yard.”

Someone told officers a patient left carrying methamphetamine and was headed to a motel.

A man was concerned that two men allegedly crowding him in a checkout line were watching him enter his debit card pin number and wondered if they had some sort of electronic device that captures personal information. He was advised to cancel his debit card.

Teenagers were spotted “climbing on equipment and throwing carts around” in front of a business.

Someone alleged a woman left her child, who is under 10 years old, home alone. The woman reportedly pulled in when officers arrived and said she went to the gas station to get cigarettes and everything was OK.

A woman allegedly punched a man in the eye and took a knife from a drawer, threatening to stab him then left.

Someone calling from Mountain Drive in Hungry Horse told Columbia Falls Police Department that a driver and passenger in a “really dirty” vehicle were lighting a pipe and passing it back and forth while speeding and swerving.

Homeless people were reportedly camping in a tent under a carport of a unit on Martha Road. The people were moved along.

A man complained about noise on Nucleus Avenue, but refused to leave his contact information and hung up. Dispatchers had advised him that officers wouldn’t respond if he continued to refuse to leave contact information.