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A man caught wandering around a college campus was reminded by officers with the Kalispell Police Department that he was banned from the property. Officers suspected he was too drunk to remember the first time they moved him along.

Taking a vigilante approach to allegedly speeding motorists in his neighborhood, a Columbia Falls resident learned that policing traffic safety laws might be better left to, well, the police.

A man worried that a vehicle parked in an alley behind Ninth Avenue West would disrupt his boating plans and phoned the Kalispell Police Department looking for help.

Deeming the behavior of a neighborhood child offsides, a resident phoned the Kalispell Police Department hoping they could give a red card.

Investigating a report of a possibly homeless person allegedly committing lewd sexual acts on a public bench, officers with the Kalispell Police Department saw none of the described behavior after spotting and observing the man. Attempts to raise by phone the person who called in were unsuccessful and officers were unable to leave a message.

StoryA rundown vehicle had become a sore spot for a man and his future brother-in-law. Having left it parked at his fiancee’s house, the owner had since discovered that her brother, who he described to the Kalispell Police Department as homeless, was constantly breaking into the broken-down vehicle.

A local property owner got a little steamed when he came across trash strewn about on his land. He told the Kalispell Police Department that the refuse included “bags of vapes.”

A prankster propped a stuffed coyote up on a snowbank along Nucleus Avenue prompting an employee of a nearby grocery store to contact the Columbia Falls Police Department.

A resident reporting a possibly abandoned silver Volvo to the Kalispell Police Department had the case broken wide open by the time officers arrived. The vehicle belonged to his grandson, he told authorities.

A dispute sparked by a fender-bender left a man worried he had become the target of extortionists.