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.

It looks as though they had an “off week” at the Chronicle as the latest batch of police reports contains little of the typically colorful commentary that is normally found. I guess everyone has been preoccupied by the big playoff game now underway at Montana State University where the 9-2 Bobcats are hosting the 8-3 New Hampshire Wildcats. As this is written, it is half-time with New Hampshire leading Montana State 19 – 17.

• A man reported “a suspicious male who attempted to sell him some things. The male turned out to be a door-to-door salesman with a permit to sell.”
• A man was warned for walking in the middle of the street while drunk at 1:17 a.m.
• A man pulled a rifle from a truck during a dispute on West Main Street at 2:19 a.m. Police confiscated the gun. The man called dispatch at 4:41 a.m., asking for the rifle back.
• A man was caught dumping trash into a Dumpster that didn’t belong to him. Officers made him pick up the garbage and cited him.
• Officers helped two drunken women find their apartment after they tried to get into one that was not theirs.

• An 83-year-old woman was caught stealing a sweater and wine from Costco.
• Several hunters were maneuvering their cars along Penwell Bridge and Walker roads to keep a large herd of elk from reaching the mountains.
• The driver of a white Ford Taurus tore through a Dollar Drive parking lot, almost hit a dog and then flipped off the dog’s owner.
• A teenage girl trying to walk to Butte stopped to use the bathroom at a Honeysuckle Drive house. Neighbors noticed she had a throwing knife strapped to one leg.
• A caller on Grand Avenue suspected their neighbor might be on meth, noting the neighbor’s doors were all open, the hood of their van was up, dishes were strewn about and that there were hoses running into a snow bank.
• A brown horse was seen walking south in the middle of Amsterdam Road at 7:40 a.m. Deputies corralled the horse.
• A skier at the Yellowstone Club pocket dialed 911 at 2 p.m.
• Kids were playing with a phone and repeatedly dialing 911 around 4:30 p.m.
• Around 4 a.m., police “helped an extremely upset and intoxicated female get home” after she inadvertently left her purse and keys in a bar after closing.
• A medical provider at the hospital called around 1:45 p.m. saying a patient was “now recalling that he was in a car accident” sometime early that morning.
• A man on West Main Street flagged down an officer to show off his new puppy.
• A white dog with a red collar has killed six chickens near Baxter and Love lanes. The chicken owner plans “to shoot the dog next time it comes back.”
• Someone went through a Churchill Road car and threw the owner’s paperwork around.
• A possible buffalo was sighted “lumbering along slowly” north in the southbound lane of Gallatin Road.