Police calls: Santa spotted?

Wednesday, Dec. 18

9:14 a.m. A kindergarten student claimed his dad escaped from jail.

6:29 p.m. A man couldn’t walk and had spilled his beer at a First Street establishment.

6:29 p.m. Another caller saw the same man making a scene at a First Street business.

Thursday, Dec. 19

2:39 p.m. A caller reported a man who came by his house selling art, but there was no art in his portfolio bag.

2:47 p.m. A vandal continued to graffiti a Second Street business.

8:18 p.m. A deer with a missing leg needed to be dispatched on Depot Street.

Friday, Dec. 20

4:35 p.m. A Wisconsin Avenue caller was having trouble with a contractor that kept returning uninvited after the work was done.

10:28 p.m. A French bulldog with a brown leather collar was found along Third Street.

Saturday, Dec. 21

2:05 a.m. A caller living above a Central Avenue café was frustrated with a band playing underneath his apartment.

4:05 a.m. A riled-up woman was swinging at, but not connecting with, various members of a Karrow Avenue household.

1:56 p.m. A man lost a wallet at a Highway 93 business.

4:39 p.m. A deer appeared to have died after sprinting headfirst into a guardrail on Baker Avenue.

8:16 p.m. A man was “making a scene” at a downtown bar.

Sunday, Dec. 22

1:10 p.m. A man found a wallet on Third Street.

2:29 p.m. The caller watched a man stumble out of a bar and get into his vehicle, where his dog waited in the passenger seat.

3:35 p.m. An iPhone was believed to be stolen somewhere in Whitefish.

4:52 p.m. A girl kept skateboarding in traffic on Wisconsin Avenue.

Monday, Dec. 23

8:25 a.m. A German shepherd chow mix appeared in a Denver Street yard.

1:11 p.m. A Highway 93 business was worried about what a disgruntled former employee might do.

2:18 p.m. A caller noticed vehicle tracks on the soccer fields at Smith Fields.

3:21 p.m. Two men got into a fistfight after a car door bumped the other man’s car.

9:22 p.m. A lost dog was found by the dog park.

Tuesday, Dec. 24

11:30 a.m. A beagle and lab mix got away near the dog park but was caught and returned to its owner.

11:40 a.m. The caller noticed a sleeping bag and other items in a vehicle that had been parked at Baker Avenue for two weeks.

3:22 p.m. A caller’s outdoor camera noticed someone walking around their Ridge Crest Drive home.

Wednesday, Dec. 25

6:42 p.m. A sober, elderly caller claimed to be seeing 50-plus star-like objects traveling in a straight line to the east, at too high of an altitude to be planes, concluding the object could be Santa Claus returning home.

8:10 p.m. Two dogs attacked the caller’s dog on Spokane Avenue.