Police Reports

International Falls Police Department 

Theft: Two thefts were reported at Can-Am Fisheries, 22 22nd St., Tuesday. Cement, valued at $1,500, and construction material, value unknown, was reportedly taken. 

Property damage: James E. Jessop reported Tuesday that renters at 1714 Seventh Ave. had put holes in the walls, causing $800 in damage. 

International Falls Police Department

Personal injury collision: Vehicles driven by Craig R. Trott and Amber C. Vohler collided at the intersection of Seventh Avenue West and 10th Street Friday, causing more than $1,000 in damages. Two people were transported to Falls Memorial Hospital with unknown injuries. No further information was known.
Koochiching County Sheriff’s Office
Theft: David R. Anderson reported Thursday that a boat motor, valued at $1,000, was taken from 2115 County Road 116.

International Falls Police Department
Theft: Sarah J. Thate, 624 Seventh St., reported Wednesday that two bikes, valued at $500, had been taken from her front yard sometime during the night.
Koochiching County Sheriff’s Office
Fire: A fire on an island west of Fransen Island on Rainy Lake was reported Wednesday afternoon. The fire burned a 50-foot by 50-foot area. It began as a fire that had not been completely extinguished and the wind picked it up. It was extinguished by Camp Kooch with its water boat. The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources assisted.

International Falls Police Department
Assault: William B. Ehlert, 311 Sixth St., was transported to Falls Memorial Hospital Thursday after being struck by a baseball bat.
Collision: A vehicle driven by Robert D. Claude, 66, Leroy, Mich., backed into a vehicle driven by Michael S. Brennard, 48, 1112 Eighth Ave., Saturday in the parking lot of Super One, 1313 Third St., causing more than $1,000 in damages.

International Falls Police Department
Hit and run: A vehicle owned by Julie J. Kucera, 304 Eighth St., was struck while it was parked at 1319 Third St. Friday.

International Falls Police Department
Burglary: An attempted burglary was reported in the training center at Boise, 400 Second Ave. W., Thursday morning. The screen on the front window was open, according to a police department report.

Ontario Provincial Police
Resisting arrest: A man is in jail after he resisted arrest and struck a patrol car with his vehicle.

Gas prices have spurred rise in use of alternative vehicles

A recent increase in gas prices has spurred a rise in the number of alternative vehicles on Minnesota’s roadways.
International Falls Police Sgt. Willi Kostiuk said that officers are attempting to educate people about the laws regarding motorized bikes, also known as scooters, before they begin writing citations to violators of those laws.
Kostiuk said the laws are intended to help keep people safe.
“We want to work with everybody and education is the best way,” he said.

Two people were treated at Falls Memorial Hospital after their boat struck a rock early Sunday morning.

A man was transported to Falls Memorial Hospital Aug. 5 with a head injury that occurred near Kettle Falls.
Voyageurs National Park staff received a report of a man needing medical assistance after falling from a dock at Kettle Falls. After park rangers portaged their boat across Kettle Falls, they responded to the scene in Hale Bay on the Rainy side of Kettle Falls.
While stepping off a dock, the man had fallen into his boat, causing him to hit his head, according to a VNP report.