The following information was compiled from Renton Police Department incident reports.

A Renton man who caught a thief rifling through his vehicle Sept. 18 moments later was holding a tank top to his chest to stop the bleeding from a knife wound.

The Renton man, 28, dressed in a soldier’s uniform, was headed to work when he spotted a van parked close to his soft-top Jeep on Northeast Fourth Street. Someone was in the backseat, going through the center console.

The suspect, a 25-year-old Renton man, fled through the rear door, with the victim holding on to him. Once outside, the victim grabbed his legs and took him to the ground, with the intent to hold him there until police arrived.

He released the suspect when he pulled out a pocket knife. The victim pulled his own knife; his wife grabbed the suspect’s arm to help her husband.

Now, the suspect was swinging his knife wildly toward them, saying “I can’t go back to jail.”

Fearing for their lives, the victim stabbed the suspect in the chest. The victim yelled, “You’re killing me,” and the suspect responded, “I don’t what to kill you. Drop the knife.”

The suspect ran, with the victim holding on to his belt.

The Renton man told the prowler, “Listen, you’re bleeding. We need to stop the bleeding and we can’t do that until you drop the knife.”

After the suspect lost his knife in a continuing struggle, the victim dropped his. He applied pressure to the man’s chest using the man’s tank top to stop the bleeding.

He was treated for a non-life-threatening wound at Harborview Medical Center. The victim was cut on the finger.

The prowler faced charges of second-degree assault.

CREDIT UNION ROBBED: The Alaska Federal Credit Union in the Safeway store on South Third Street downtown was robbed of $1,750 in cash Sept. 13 by a man wearing a female’s black wig.

The suspect told a teller “in a sultry voice” he wanted to open an account, but he only had one (he needed two) piece of identification. He then handed the teller a note. She dropped a bag filled with cash just recently retrieved from the safe. She had 10 seconds to pick it up. And don’t do anything stupid, said the suspect, who implied a gun.

Security video showed him leaving the store.

HOMELESS WOMAN’S CLOTHES STOLEN: Two bags of a homeless woman’s clothes were stolen Sept. 13 when she went inside a fast-food restaurant on 108th Avenue Southeast.

She had left the clothes outside in a shopping cart she uses to hold her belongings.

The stolen items included pants, a Ralph Lauren Cashmere sweater, a Ralph Lauren multi-colored jacket, black dress and a blue-and-white dress.

SCAM COSTS HIM $1,800, CAR: A Renton man is out about $1,800 – and a car – in a counterfeit scam involving the purchase of a 2004 Ford Taurus.

The seller told the man the Ford’s title had been stolen and he was applying for a new one. In doing so he discovered there was a lien on the title, so he needed to buy back the Taurus.

The buyer paid $1,500 but the Taurus, but he wanted $1,800 because he had work done on the car during the five days he owned it.

The seller agreed and brought the $1,800 in $20 bills to a meet up on Sept. 15. But he fled in the Taurus when the Renton man wanted to check whether the $20 bills were fake. They were.

The counterfeit money was booked into evidence.

MAN URINATES ON SIDEWALK: A 60-year-old Lake Stevens man, who is known to Renton Police officers, was arrested Sept. 23 for indecent exposure after he urinated on the sidewalk in front of the Safeway store on South Third Street.

A Safeway employee witnessed the incident; she told a store manager, who called 911. The man was lying on the sidewalk in front of a fresh pool of urine.

He was intoxicated and spoke belligerently to an officer. He was booked into the SCORE regional jail.