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Police Blotter

Flathead County Sheriff’s and Kalispell Police Reports

Grandma Scammed

By Christie Burns

Thursday 11/18

9:44 a.m. A McMannamy Draw resident witnessed two dogs running, one with a chicken in its mouth. Victims included three chickens and an unknown number of rabbits.

9:45 a.m. A Hodgson Road dog regularly chases a horse.

11:04 a.m. A yellow lab was seen chasing horses on Bighorn Drive.

12:27 p.m. A rifle was stolen, pawned and sold in Columbia Falls.

1:07 p.m. A man wearing all black and standing in the middle of Highway 35 was pronounced a road hazard.

1:36 p.m. A large pit bull was playing in the yard with a Columbia Falls resident’s dog.

2:53 p.m. A conned elderly Harbon Hill woman paid more than $6,000 to an unknown man claiming to be her imprisoned grandson. The man, who said he was in a Canadian jail, told her to send money to his bail bondsman in Haiti. After the initial $2,800 was sent, the woman received another call, this time from a “Canadian officer” requesting $3,600 because they had to put the “grandson” up in a hotel.

3:53 p.m. A woman on Tally Lake Road was irritated that she couldn’t let her dog outside because someone else’s dog was already out.

3:54 p.m. An intoxicated woman went to jail after punching a man in the face.

5:58 p.m. People were spinning cookies and chasing deer on North Hilltop Road.

7:44 p.m. A mom chased her “out-of-control” 13-year-old daughter behind the Helena Flats School.

8:55 p.m. A suspicious person called in to report a scruffy and smelly man traveling with an elderly woman and six dogs in an old pickup. Deputies checked
on the couple who were having headlight issues.

10:18 p.m. A female texted someone on Cobbler Way even after she was asked not to.

10:23 p.m. A female was acting “crazy” during an argument involving five people on Bear Trail in Whitefish.