911 calls from 6/1-6/9

Monday, June 1
• 2:45 a.m. — A man called 911 and reported that someone has been shooting at his property with pellet guns since around 11:15 p.m. Sunday night. The man advised that the last shot hit about five minutes ago and he could hear a girl’s voice say “Uh-O!”, but it was too dark outside to see anything.
• 3:51 a.m. — A man called 911 and reported a party at Kerr Dam by the boat launch below the village. Upon officer arrival, a deputy was unable to locate anyone and said the caller “may be hearing the wind as it is blowing pretty good.”
• 8:57 a.m. — A woman reported to 911 that a lawn ornament described as a “little girl on a tricycle with a basket and cat” was stolen from her yard last night. The prime suspect: Martha Stewart.
• 4:07 p.m. — A man called 911 and requested an officer as his “wallet was lost.” The reporting party advised dispatchers that he had $150 in the wallet, and if an officer didn’t come over he is going over to the suspected burglars residence and is going to “burn the house down.”
• 5 p.m. — A woman advised 911 dispatchers that she and her mother just entered their house and noticed the upstairs door start to open, calling out “who is there?” — then the door abruptly shut again. The woman and her mother went to the neighbors to call 911. Upon police follow-up, the door activity turned out to, again, just be “the wind.”

Tuesday, June 2
• 10:07 a.m. — A Mission police officer reported to dispatch that a St. Ignatius resident has “a threatening sign” in their window directed towards their neighbors.
• 12:24 p.m. — A man dialed 911 and requested a call from “Walgren”, stating that “they” are trying to “get rid of him.” When dispatchers asked who the man advised that he had just gotten back from the mental hospital at Warm Springs and “they” are trying to get rid of him. Warm Springs called dispatch to request that the sheriff’s office transport the man back to the hospital.

Wednesday, June 3
• 11:41 a.m. — A woman called 911 and advised that there is a white Ford Expedition with out of state plates going door-to-door selling “Clorox products.”

Thursday, June 4
• 12:31 a.m. — A male employee at a Polson gas station advised dispatchers that he had some tools sitting outside and some people grabbed them. The man reported that they were “very arrogant and thanked him for the tools.” Polson officers found the described vehicle, made a traffic stop, and recovered the stolen pliers and screwdriver.
• 8:10 p.m — A woman reported to 911 that a “very intoxicated” man is trying to get hit in the middle of the road in St. Ignatius, “jumping into traffic.”

Friday, June 5
• 11:42 a.m. — A man reported to 911 getting a voice mail message offering him a “$50,000 stimulus payment.”
• 6:04 p.m. — A woman called 911 and advised that some people are “having sex on the beach” under a blanket by the city docks. A Polson officer spoke with the two individuals and said he could not confirm if they were “fornicating or not”, but warned them they were not to “partake in that kind of behavior in a public park.”

Saturday, June 6
• 4:34 p.m. — A woman reported to 911 that a man who was baby-sitting her daughter was drunk and passed out at her residence, as she came home to find the daughter “coloring on him with magic markers.” After the man was woken up, he was refusing to leave as he had “just finished off a fifth of vodka.”
• 9:14 p.m. — A woman called 911 and requested to speak with an officer in reference to what appears to be “blood all over the ground out in front of their shop.” The woman advised dispatchers that they had just returned from Missoula and noticed the blood and one chicken missing. The prime suspect: Colonel Sanders.

Sunday, June 7
• 12:36 p.m. — A man called 911 and advised that he was just leaving the Branding Iron Bar in Charlo and a man came up to him and propositioned him to “buy crack cocaine.”
• 6:41 p.m. — A woman reported to 911 that she can hear her neighbors making lots of “odd noises” that sound like a “haunted house almost.”

Monday, June 8
• 4:12 p.m. — A man reported to 911 that he was approached by four males in a white Chevy pickup who asked him if he knew where they could “sell some stolen guns.” The man advised that the males were from Browning, appeared to “be on drugs”, and said they got the guns from California.
• 7:56 p.m. — A man reported to 911 that another man at his house made threats to him by “shaking his fist at me.”

Tuesday, June 9
• 2:11 a.m. — A man advised 911 dispatchers that someone had “stolen his 2008 Ronan telephone book” off his kitchen table “within the last three hours.”
• 4:55 p.m. — A woman reported to 911 that she witnessed four boys beating on another, adding that it might be “some sort of initiation.” Upon police follow-up the boys turned out be just brothers giving the youngest brother “a hard time.”