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.

There was a noticeable increase last week in the kind of activity that has come to characterize the police reports section of the local newspaper, allaying concerns expressed here previously that the town had somehow become more domesticated in recent weeks. No drunks were apprehended after stumbling into peoples homes in the wee hours and passing out on the couch, but there were plenty of other alcohol related incidents along with a good collection of reports on animals including a mountain lion and a leopard.

• A mutt followed someone home from the bar at 1:16 a.m.
• Two drunken 19-year-old girls were pulled over for driving with the car’s headlights off at 2:05 a.m. The driver was arrested for driving under the influence and the passenger was cited for minor in possession.
• Someone was pounding on a woman’s apartment door at 4:07 a.m. She told dispatch someone was howling outside her window the night before.
• When a Golden Rod Lane man told his neighbor to stop shoveling his sidewalk, the neighbor began swearing at him.

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