Police Reports for Feb. 26, 2012 - The Bozeman Daily Chronicle: Police Reports

The Bozeman Police Department reports for Sunday included the following:

• People were fighting in front of an East Main Street bar. Most fled when police arrived around 1:40 a.m. The man who was assaulted did not want to press charges.
• Police found “a man by himself drinking a beer and playing loud video games at 5:30 a.m. on Sunday morning” on Ida Avenue after a neighbor complained about the noise.
• A 21-year-old Belgrade man was cited for stealing two DVDs from a Catron Street store around 1:45 p.m.
• A caller reported what appeared to be consensual “sexual behavior” in a vehicle behind a movie theater at the mall around 4:30 p.m. The caller was “concerned about indecent exposure and activity near families.”
• A man was told he could not return to a fast food restaurant after harassing and threatening other customers there around 11:45 p.m.
• The Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office reports for Sunday included the following:
  • A deputy separated a group of people, sending them off with a warning after some sort of drunken scuffle in an icy parking lot in Big Sky around 1:45 a.m. An intoxicated woman involved in the incident told a deputy she had been thrown to the ground and called about an hour later to report “what she had already reported” again.
  • A dispatcher heard what sounded like someone skiing during a 911 call around 6 p.m. Upon calling the number back a woman said the phone was in her pocket and there was no emergency.
  • A mistakenly closed flue caused a home to fill up with smoke when a resident started a fire in the fireplace around 6:30 p.m.
  • Suspicious people taking photos in a neighborhood near Macgregor Road around 9:30 p.m. turned out to be photography students shooting night photos.
  • Several homeowners along Springhill Road complained about trucks loudly power braking and spinning out on the road around 11:30 p.m. A deputy stopped one suspect and warned him for an equipment violation. Meanwhile, another driver was cited for being a minor in possession of alcohol after crashing his vehicle on Springhill Community Road around 11:45 p.m.
  The Gallatin County jail held 74 inmates Monday.