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.

Once again, it is slim ‘pickens in the police reports section of the newspaper as the recent snow – a couple feet this month after practically nothing prior – must be keeping a lot of people indoors and, those who venture outside don’t seem to be getting into a whole lot of trouble, though driving appears to be much more prone to error this time of the year.

• Between 4:20 p.m. and midnight, 20 motor vehicle accidents were reported.
• A rubbernecking woman looking at officers dealing with an incident at North 11th Avenue and Main Street around 3 p.m. failed to stop for traffic in front of her and rear-ended a vehicle.
• An officer gave a drunken man a ride to the correct hotel and warned him after he was found pounding on doors of a North Seventh Avenue hotel where he was not staying.
• A dispatcher heard “numerous people talking and laughing about Valentine’s Day” during a 911 call around midnight. There was no emergency.
• A woman sneezed while at a stoplight at the intersection of North 19th Avenue and Baxter Lane, causing her to inadvertently rear-end the vehicle in front of her.

• A man reported receiving a text message stating, “Hey, I hid the body. No one will find it. Thanks for all your help. Delete after receiving.”
• A caller had questions “about getting flowers with no card and the flower company won’t tell her who sent them.”
• An intoxicated man was charged with disorderly conduct, criminal mischief, assault with a bodily fluid and resisting arrest after he became unruly in the hospital emergency room around 3 a.m. The man had been injured in an East Main Street brawl and did not want to press charges against his assailants.
• A pickup truck driver was cited for several traffic violations around 3:15 p.m. after unsecured metal siding fell off his truck along Durston Road.
• A deputy helped remove a large amount of steel that had fallen out of a truck on Durston Road around 3:30 p.m.
• A deputy gave neighbors “constructive options in dealing with complaints regarding noise levels from each other.”
• A caller claimed a man was sending 2 ounces to 4 ounces of pot at a time through the mail. The caller said the man brags about it, saying he packs the drug in eyeglass cases and baby wipes.
• A 6-year-old male needed assistance from Big Sky ski patrol at 11:30 a.m., after hitting a rock and sliding down a run in the Shedhorn area.
• A West Babcock Street resident did not want to press charges against a “highly intoxicated” man who was beating on a glass door around midnight. The “caller just wished the male to leave.”
• A somewhat evasive man “kept saying no one needs to respond; that his friend is intoxicated and being dumb but that everything is OK,” after a dispatcher heard a woman yelling and buttons being pushed during a 911 call around 1:30 a.m.
• A deputy responded to a home around 10 p.m. after a 911 call remained open and the dispatcher could hear only coughing and dogs barking.