Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Calls for 12/24-1/7

Thursday, Dec. 24 – Christmas Holiday Recap
- 9:41 a.m. – A Polson woman called 9-1-1 and reported that the phone lines to her house “have been cut.” The caller added that she suspects “the people from the liquor store across the street” are the culprits at the center of this scheme. It’s called paying your phone bill, and maybe if you spent less time “across the street” you’d know that.

- 8:25 p.m. – A male caller reported to 9-1-1 that there is a man on his Valley Creek Road property “shooting at anything and everything.” Good thing Santa pimped his sleigh “ride” and equipped his reindeer with bullet-proof vests after last year’s close call.

Friday, Dec. 25
- 6:08 a.m. – 9-1-1 dispatchers received an anonymous report of suspicious activity on a Polson rooftop. Officers reportedly found evidence of footprints and believe there was an attempt of possible entry. Aw yes Chris Cringle, our favorite annual neighborhood prowler, has returned.

Thursday, Dec. 31 – New Year’s Recap
- 3:14 a.m. – A woman called 9-1-1 requested an officer’s assistance as reportedly a “heavyset shirtless drunk male” attempted to break-in to her Bear Track Avenue home. The caller also observed the man fighting with a skinnier male on her property earlier before running him off. The reporting party added that the male is now sitting by her back door “howling and barking at the moon.”

- 12:19 p.m. – A Polson woman (who will remain nameless but is no stranger to the history of the Blotter) called 9-1-1 to report to dispatchers that she had “borrowed smokes from a 19-year-old boy.”

- 1 p.m. – A male member of a Polson church reported to 9-1-1 that they had caught a juvenile male community service worker pick-pocketing over $100 from church members while doing his community service hours.

- 7:58 p.m. – A Ronan police officer received a report of 3 juveniles drinking in a vehicle near Harvest Foods. Upon further investigation, the teens turned out to be drinking Rockstar energy drinks. Loads of sugar and caffeine, but no booze.

Friday, Jan. 1
- 2:10 a.m. – A woman called 9-1-1 and requested to be contacted by an officer regarding “being abused by her doctor.” An officer responded to dispatch that the caller was a known person of “mental health issues” and the recurring claims were false. The caller rang 9-1-1 again not much later adding “you better get somebody down here, this guy has lots of patients and could hurt a lot of people.”

- 2:44 a.m. – A man reported to 9-1-1 that there is a man who says his name is “Bruce” who seems out of it and hanging out on the caller’s porch. The reporting party told dispatchers he doesn’t know the man or why he’s on his porch and, reportedly, Bruce told the caller he wasn’t sure why he was on the porch either.
- 4:41 a.m. – A report of disorderly conduct was called into 9-1-1 dispatch as a fist-fight including multiple people had broken out in front of the Pablo Fire Hall.

- 9:11 a.m. – A male caller reported to 9-1-1 that a man just tried to enter the residence by breaking out the windows in his trailer with a steel post. The caller said he chased the culprit from the premises and out of Northwood Trailer Park.

- 7:59 p.m. – A man called to 9-1-1 citing a story in the paper about a string of vehicles being “paintballed” and wanted to report his vehicle on 12th Avenue as yet “another victim” of the local paintball hoodlums.

Tuesday, Jan. 5
- 10:38 a.m. – An anonymous female from Salish Kootenai College reported to 9-1-1 that she had just been offered “hasheesh.” That’s right, a college student was offered pot – hold the presses.

Wednesday, Jan. 6
- 6:39 a.m. – A woman reported to 9-1-1 that her neighbors’ car lights “have been on all night” and wanted an officer to go over and have them shut off. The responding officer confirmed that the neighbors had just been warming up their car for about 15 minutes and it “had not been all night.” A crabby neighbor alert was officially issued for the 200 block of 9th Avenue in Polson.

Thursday, Jan. 7
- 3:13 a.m. – An Arlee woman reported to 9-1-1 that she had just encountered “a prowler” on the unregulated free classifieds website “Craigs List.” Nooooo way?! Not a predator on a shady internet site after 3 in the morning?

- 10:44 a.m. – A Polson property manager for an apartment complex on 11th Avenue called 9-1-1 and requested the sheriff’s “drug dogs” to do a sweep of the units on the property. Ace local canine cop “Kilo” replied with a vigorous wag of the tail that roughly translates to ,“Hell Yes.”