Flathead valley police blotter

8:30 a.m. A deer was sitting in the middle of the highway.

8:54 a.m. A cow was wandering down Halfmoon Road.

11:17 a.m. Someone broke into a Columbia Falls business and stole money, brownies and soda.

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12:14 p.m. A Kalispell woman called 911 from her new Apple Watch. She was very apologetic.

1 p.m. A purse was stolen out of a car.

2:41 p.m. A man in a cowboy hat was cruising around town in a wrecked car. The reporting party couldn’t tell what type of car it was because the front end was destroyed.

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2:50 p.m. Someone pocket dialed 911. The emergency dispatcher was then able to listen into a conversation about all the places they had traveled to recently.

3:46 p.m. A Kalispell man called 911 because he found a grenade in his dad’s gun safe. He didn’t know if the grenade was live or dead nor did he know what to do with it.

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4:04 p.m. A generator was stolen in Kalispell.

4:10 p.m. A Kalispell boy was teasing his younger brother by threatening to call the cops on him for some imagined criminal offense. The boy even went as far as dialing 911 on his cell phone. The boy apparently took it too far when he hit the call button and actually called 911.

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4:56 p.m. A Kalispell man was frustrated that he could not take his “trash” to the county dump. Upon further review, the man was trying to throw out an entire motorhome.

5:28 p.m. A local man called police because his “crack addicted grandson” had stolen from him. The alleged thief was last seen biking to a local burger joint.

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7:53 p.m. A Hungry Horse man was allegedly kicked out of a local establishment because he had apparently shot the owner’s dog with a pellet gun.

8:04 p.m. A Kalispell man told a mailman that he was “going to go home in a body bag” if he didn’t slow down.

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10:12 p.m. A man riding Amtrak to Seattle got off the train in Whitefish to go for a walk and stretch his legs. When he got back to the station, the Amtrak train was gone. Making matters worse, the man’s wallet was on the train.

6:09 a.m. Some items were missing from a Columbia Falls hardware story.

6:57 a.m. Someone started a small grassfire near Kalispell. The dispatcher could hear a lot of swearing in the background as the reporting party described what had happened.

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7:44 a.m. There was a deer in a ditch.

7:45 a.m. A Kalispell man frantically called 911 when he discovered an elderly woman was unconscious. However, right in the middle of the 911 call, the elderly woman woke up and appeared to be fine. She was quite chatty.

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8:44 a.m. Some drama arose over child custody and Father’s Day.

9:54 a.m. Someone allegedly tried to break into a Columbia Falls home.

10:44 a.m. A Kalispell man got into a fighting with his son over a Playstation.

10:53 a.m. A Kalispell man got a bill for four cellphones he does not own.

1:11 p.m. A Kalispell man called 911 with questions about purchasing a gun.

2:34 p.m. A local man called 911 because he could hear someone “ripping and roaring” down in the gravel pit and he wanted whoever was down there to “knock it off.”

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4:42 p.m. A Bigfork man hosting a family reunion called 911 because his neighbor was firing off his machine gun “right over us.” The caller said he yelled as loud as he could for them to stop but he’s pretty sure they didn’t hear him.

9:11 p.m. A man and a woman were hanging out in an area fountain. Police advised the couple that “a fountain is not a good place to hang out.”

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9:25 p.m. A Columbia Falls man crashed into a telephone pole.

10:30 p.m. A local delivery truck driver apparently finished his day’s work and decided to go to bed in his truck. A nearby resident called 911 because they were concerned about that man.

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11:50 p.m. Someone was down in the gravel pit making a racket again.