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.

Since the local police reports have only been featured here for about a year, their seasonal patterns have yet to be noticed, however, this time of the year certainly does appear to be quieter, police blotter-wise, than any other period so far. I guess that makes sense as some of the wildlife is hibernating now that the weather is much colder – both the four-legged kind and the two-legged variety. People seem to stumble into places they shouldn’t be in the wee hours a lot less frequently than in the summer and now you’re more likely to read reports of snow shoveling disagreements between neighbors or stolen fire wood.

• A candle caught a West Olive Street man’s bag of popcorn on fire at 1:08 a.m.
• A “very wounded black bear” crossed East Kagy Boulevard and stopped on the north side of the road.
• A Starr Mobile park man started his car around 6 a.m. and went inside as it warmed up. He found a “highly intoxicated, large white male wearing Carhartts sitting in his car.” The drunken man had to be physically pulled from the vehicle.
• No one was injured when a parked vehicle was popped into gear, possibly by the dog inside, and rolled across West Main Street into a business.
• Rosauers employees found two field-dressed geese in the parking lot.

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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.

Well, last week’s disappointing collection of police reports may not have been a one-off event as the new batch doesn’t seem any better. This must be a slow time of the year for law enforcement, what with the bears tucked in for the winter, the cold weather keeping some people at home, and students at Montana State University either studying for mid-terms or focusing on the football team’s visit to Texas for the quarterfinals of the Football Championship Series (the last I checked, they were down 7 – 3 in the first quarter).

• An officer advised two people to go home after one man did not want his friend to buy alcohol around 2 a.m. “They both agreed this was the best idea.”
• An injured elk calf was seen off U.S. Highway 287 near mile marker 13.
• A man dressed as a law enforcement officer pulled a woman over on Interstate 90 in late November, asked for her number and “stated he just wanted to meet her.” Deputies are investigating the incident.
• A person on South Rouse Avenue told dispatch the captain at the Salvation Army was “rude and vulgar and not being nice to people.”
• A disoriented bald man in his 50s kept taking off his clothes in a North Seventh Avenue casino.

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