The Blotter: Man in trenchcoat spooks jogger
April 21
A Hungry Horse caller’s ex girlfriend’s current boyfriend drove through the caller’s backyard and over his fire pit.
A young man stole a “bunch of beer” from a Columbia Falls store.
A bear was eating from a pig pen on Larch Road.
Another Columbia Falls caller was having trouble with a bear picking through the trash along Fourth Avenue.
A Hungry Horse caller suspected the mobile home they saw on Facebook might be a “mobile meth lab.”
A Columbia Falls caller was upset after he let a potential seller test drive his van and never saw him again.
April 22
A Columbia Falls caller claimed to have watched his ex and her new boyfriend complete a drug deal.
Someone stole a phone from a Third Avenue yard.
A Columbia Falls woman hit a man multiple times because he “wouldn’t let her smoke weed.”
April 23
A Columbia Falls woman’s jog was interrupted by a man in a black trenchcoat and hat trying to run with, or after, her.
A man was sleeping on a bed roll in a Columbia Falls park.
April 24
Someone hit a Seventh Street caller’s parked vehicle overnight.
A Martin City caller believed they saw someone running through yards and hiding in a boat.
April 25
A Columbia Falls man didn’t know what to do after he accidentally opened someone else’s mail.
Someone stole a horse from Holt Stage Road.
Someone shot a door with a BB gun, shattering the window, on Diane Road.
April 26
A Diane Road caller couldn’t enter his home to get work clothes because his girlfriend wouldn’t let him in.