Archives — Calls from 3/9-3/14

Monday, March 9
• 9:27 a.m. — A man called 911 to report that his neighbor was using his trashcan.
• 8:18 p.m. — A woman reported that her five-year-old son had just ingested liquid soap and needed the contact for poison control.

Tuesday, March 10
• 3:23 a.m. — A person reported that a car just slid off Mission Dam Road in the North Foothills. Upon retrieving the car it was found to be a stolen vehicle.
• 3:59 p.m. — A woman reported to 911 dispatchers that the sonic boom backfire from an old former cop car’s exhaust blew her window out at her 3rd Avenue residence.
• 6:46 p.m. — Two individuals were arrested for stealing “cold and flu medicine” from a local grocery store.
• 7:19 p.m. — A woman reported that an “extremely intoxicated” man wearing a dark coat and jeans was just “thrown out of a white mini van” in the parking lot of a different local grocery store. She advised that he is now sitting on a bench next to the building.
• 7:32 p.m. — A woman called 911 and requested to speak with a county commissioner regarding a “super secret investigation” she was working on for that public official. The woman advised dispatchers that she can “read minds” and is clairvoyant, and she is doing the investigation as a favor to the commissioner. She said the investigation was regarding “people doing weird things to dogs in Ronan” and an advertisement for “whimeraners” in the paper.
Later on, dispatch received a call from the same woman stating she was “going to speak very slowly and in Latin” as she had some information regarding dogs in her “very special mission given to her by an officer.” Even later on in the same evening, dispatchers received yet another call from the woman who was reportedly now speaking in “gibberish.”

Wednesday, March 11
• 10:35 a.m. — A man called 911 and requested a call from an Polson officer regarding some stuff of his ex-girlfriend’s that he “pawned.” He advised that they’ve broken up now and she is telling him that she’s turning him in for steeling her stuff and pawning it.
• 10:39 p.m. — A person reported that a drunk man was walking in the middle of the road. It was found that he had an arrest warrant out and the sloshed jaywalker was subsequently picked up by the fuzz and taken for a ride downtown in the paddywagon.

Thursday, March 12
• 2:43 a.m. — A woman reported a small green station wagon headed northbound from Ronan on US Hwy 93 that was “dragging a gas hose and nozzle” from the car’s gas tank. Officers found the car in the high school parking lot and the gas nozzle was brought back.
• 7:40 p.m. — A woman reported that someone stole her “large BBQ” today, and advised that she could see “footprints going from the house to the alleyway.”
• 8:40 p.m. — A woman at a Polson hotel called 911 and reported that a picture fell on her head and she wondered “how long she would have to wait at the Emergency Room,” adding that she would “wait at home if there is a long wait.” Dispatchers gave her the number for the hospital.

Friday, March 13
• A man reported that he got a letter from “Lee Yang with a bank in China” who told him he would give the man “$4 million if he sends them a check.”

Saturday, March 14
• A woman reported that there is a man at her bar who was kicked out and is now hanging around in the parking lot trying to “start fights with their bouncer” and anyone leaving the local watering hole. Officers picked up the man and dropped him off at a nearby gas station to remove him from the conflict.