Compiled from Renton Police Department case reports

It was a rainy night in Kennydale with hardly any light from a street lamp when a Renton police officer pulled over a car for running a stop sign.

The driver handed over his license to the officer, who walked back to his patrol car parked on Kennewick Place Northeast to make his routine records check just after midnight.

As the officer sat in his car, a man dressed in a dark suit walked out of a wooded landscaped area at Kennydale Elementary School. The man looked into the stopped car and then the police car. He stood at the rear passenger side of the car, close behind the officer.

The officer felt unconfortable, concerned about his safety. He got out. He explained to the man that he would need to stand in front of his patrol car. The man said he paid taxes and could stand on the sidewalk.

Over the next several minutes, the man asked whether the officer thought he was going to shoot him. The man asked more personal and political questions. The officer called for backup.

The man walked farther away. The officer told the driver of the stopped car that he had a suspended driver’s license. The man walked back and took a photo of the patrol car’s front license plate with his cell phone.

The officer was now in the middle of two potentially dangerous situations. He wondered why the man confronted him over a traffic stop that had nothing to do with him. He radioed to the backup officer to hurry.

Three times, the man hindered the investigation. The man ran when he heard the siren from the responding police cruiser. The responding officer caught up with him on foot and ordered – three times – that he take his hands from his pockets. The responding officer tasered the man and the two got into a physical fight.

The two officers subdued the man, 27, from Renton. He was booked into Renton jail Oct. 22 for investigation of resisting arrest and obstructing a a law-enforcement officer.

The driver of the stopped car cooperated with the officer. Because of that, he was given a verbal warning. A passenger drove the car away.

$1,500 in cash stolen from home

A burglar stole $1,500 in cash Oct. 20 from a home in the 400 block of Pelly Avenue North.

A resident returned home to find the rear sliding-glass door open and screens missing from windows. It’s not known how the house was entered.

The refrigerator door was open.

A woman arrived at the home during the investigation and discovered the money was missing. Other items also were missing from the house.

A neighbor saw a young black male in his teens wearing a hooded sweatshirt knock on the front door. When no one answered, he walked to the north side of the house. Fingerprints were collected at the scene.

Mother, son arrested; drugs found in purse

A mother was arrested Oct. 24 for investigation of fourth-degree assault-domestic violence after she argued with her son over the key to a storage unit and punched him in the head several times.

The incident occurred in the 1900 block of Harrington Circle Northeast. The son also was arrested on two theft warrants. He was jailed.

The woman asked that her purse be brought with her because it had important belongings inside. At the jail, officers found pills and baggies of a green leafy substance and a white powdery substance in the purse. Based on tests, the leafy material was marijuana. The white substance tested negative for amphetamine. Both were held as evidence.

The pills found loose or in baggies inside the purse were used to treat a variety of symptoms. They were held as evidence.

Argument over food leads to woman’s arrest

An argument over food taken from a freezer Oct. 21 ended with the arrest of a 52-year-old man for investigation of fourth-degree assault.

The incident occurred at an apartment in the 300 block of Union Avenue Southeast.

The victim, a 45-year-old woman, took some ribs and a frozen pizza from the freezer as she was moving out. The man yelled, “Don’t take my food.” She said she bought it with her food-stamp card. She told an officer she was pushed to the ground, which the man denied.

She was transported to Valley Medical Center to have her hip examined.

The victim and the suspect both called 911. Police were called to the residence the day before; the woman was advised to ask for an officer to stand by if she returned to gather more of her belongings from the residence.