Apr. 24—A customer reportedly paid an employee with movie prop money, and a later call came in about a man driving a white GMC Sierra who allegedly went through a drive-thru twice and “passed” a fake $100 bill and a fake $50 bill.
An employee called the Kalispell Police Department when a man sitting in a vehicle in the parking lot reportedly said he shot himself and started walking toward the back of the building. Responding officers secured a firearm left in his vehicle, and medical personnel were let into the building. The man turned out to have suffered a gunshot wound to his leg.
Someone reported “some kind of crash” between a gray minivan and a dirt bike, and the drivers were reportedly pushing each other in a parking lot. They said the driver of the dirt bike was walking with a limp.
A man allegedly called the police to report that his wallet had been stolen from a location last year. He told an officer that he initially thought his ex-wife had stolen it until January when the business, whose employees he claimed to know well, contacted him and accused an ex-employee of stealing his wallet, which had fallen out of his pocket. The employee quit the next day. The man said they also had video footage of the theft. An officer told him it was unlikely his wallet would be returned.
A man reportedly called police wanting to speak to an officer, saying they met a man at a location to “make a return,” but refused to answer a dispatcher’s questions to gather more information. The complaint was about a dispute over debts. An officer advised the other man to stop calling, texting and showing up wherever the caller’s family was and to address the issue through civil court. The other man claimed his life was threatened by the caller and had reported it to the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office.
A man allegedly tried to use tools to get into the front door of a residence. A concerned father told officers the stranger ran off when his son came home. The father requested extra patrols, adding that he had a generator stolen a few months ago.
A woman noticed her white electric bicycle was missing and reported it stolen. The joke was on the alleged thief, though, because the battery was in the owner’s apartment for safekeeping. Whoever took it was stuck using it as a normal bicycle. The bike has skinny tires, black-colored gears and a back rack over the tire.
Teens allegedly kept returning to a location after being kicked out twice in one day.