Law Enforcement Blotter
Lincoln County
Sheriff’s Department
Sept. 18
• A man reported being lost on Jackson Creek Trail off FDR Road. He believed himself to be three miles from his vehicle. A friend assisting the search fired three shots. A response shot was fired. Contact was made and the man was returned to his vehicle.
• A caller on Three Corners Road reported hearing small-caliber gun shots in the area.
Sept. 19
• A gas station clerk reported two young men not paying for $86 in fuel.
• A woman reported she lost her wallet somewhere in the Libby area. It is a camouflage half fold, checkbook style wallet with a 12-gauge shotgun shell button.
• Rigoberto Amador Ibarra was arrested and charged with probation violation.
• A woman on U.S. Highway 2 reported an Australian Cattle Dog showed up at her door. She kept the dog for the night but had to be at work tomorrow morning.
• A caller reported children playing on blue tarps near Asa Wood School. There were boards with nails sticking out of them under the tarps and a child had stepped on a nail.
Sept. 20
• A caller on Ski Road reported a deer hung up in a fence. The deer was euthanized.
• A woman on Wisconsin Avenue reported someone breaking into her car last night and stealing her change.
• A man returned a wallet he found along the road in Kalispell. The owner was a Libby woman.
• A woman on Utah Avenue reported stolen property from a vehicle that was in her garage. The property was being pawned in Rocky Mountain Music.
• Manley Allen Smith, Jr., was arrested and charged with violating conditions of sentencing.
• A woman at Highway 2 South reported an underage party occurring behind her house.
Sept. 21
• A caller on Lakeshore Drive reported neighbors shooting in an unsafe manner and leaving trash on state land.
• A caller on River Road reported a small rat terrier belonging to his ex-girlfriend visited his residence, was very thin, and was covered in sores. The dog was given to Kootenai Pets for Life.
• A man at Granite Creek Road reported his father to be unresponsive but breathing. The father was transported to St. John’s Lutheran Hospital.
• A caller reported horses on the loose along Lime Butte Road.
• A woman called from Arizona to report that she just learned her daughter had been molested in the Libby area.
• A caller from Sheldon Lane reported coming face-to-face with a bear in the backyard. The bear seemed very friendly.