Culled from the Police Reports page of the Bozeman Daily Chronicle come the best of the Bozeman police reports from the last week along with some items from the Sheriff’s Office. Note that a new book featuring the very best of these police reports is now available from the Chronicle for only $10 – just click on the banner below to find out how to order.

With a drop in the temperature at this time of year, things seem to be quieting down around here after a busy summer and fall for law enforcement. The batch of reports below, while providing a bit of levity this Saturday afternoon, show a clear tendency for people to be staying home more, away from the bars downtown that seem to be the focal point for many of the incidents reported during the summer months.

• A man called in to ask what he needed to do to become a bounty hunter.
• A man living in his truck asked deputies to stop checking on him so frequently while he is parked at Hyalite Trailhead so that he can get a full night’s sleep.
• Three male snowboarders were warned for grinding rails at a South Cottonwood Road neighborhood.
• A drunken man with a long beard was passed out on East Lamme Street near the intersection with North Bozeman Avenue at 8:29 p.m.
• An ongoing dispute between North Bozeman Avenue neighbors over snow shoveling resulted in a confrontation Tuesday morning.
• Someone has come onto a Shatto Drive man’s property the last couple months, doing an escalating amount of damage each time. The resident said he “is going to be on his property with a loaded weapon to take car(e) of this (expletive).”

• A dispatcher heard a woman say, “Oh my gosh” and then hang up around 5:30 p.m. She had dialed 911 accidently.
• A caller suspected several kids hiding in bushes were dealing drugs.
• A woman was arrested for trespassing after hitchhiking to her boyfriend’s home. The man had thrown the woman out of his truck because, he said, she was punching him in the face while he was driving. She called a dispatcher and a deputy gave her a ride to a store and told her to stay away from the man.
• A man was so intoxicated that he passed out on the floor at Wendy’s at 1:15 a.m. Police gave him a ride home.
• Three females in their underwear were on the side of Seventh Avenue flashing people as they drove by at 4:15 p.m.
• A man was seen drinking a Twisted Tea while driving onto Interstate 90 at 5:15 p.m.
• A 30-year-old man from Minnesota was arrested for disorderly conduct after being kicked out of a bar on Main Street at 7:30 p.m. for grabbing several women.
• Upon returning to her home after three months away, a woman on Topaz Road in Belgrade found her gun lying in the driveway with a pen through the trigger and her house a mess. The man who had been making weekly checks on the residence said he knew nothing of the matter.
• A homeless man was invited into a North Fifth Avenue apartment but would not leave.
• Two women were warned for threatening each other through text messages and Facebook.
• A young man ran away from home after his mother confronted him about taking a drug test.
• Animal control officers completed an inspection of a chicken application.
• Two Hunters way residents got into a slapping fight at 6:39 a.m.
• A woman chased a man down Montana Street with a butcher knife at 1:23 p.m.

 

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