The following information was compiled from City of Renton police reports:

A man tried to hide in a thicket of blackberry bushes after eluding police Jan. 28.

He had parked his car in the wrong direction on an I-405 off ramp next to where he was hiding, and police found him using a K-9 unit.

The man first tried to elude police by driving in the wrong direction on the freeway. Afraid the man was going to have a head-on collision with another vehicle, the officer stopped his pursuit.

When the man said, “Well, then, you just know everything then, don’t you,” to the arresting officer, the officer responded, “No, I have no idea what could be so worth it that you almost kill people to get away from me.”

The man had several warrants to his name.

Youth beat man for beer

A man was kicked and punched about 20 to 30 times by four youths for his beer on the 900 block of South Third Street Jan. 26.

The man, who police identified as a local transient, kept his beer from being stolen by curling over it. However, his eye was swollen shut and blood was coming from it.

There are no suspects. The man was taken to Valley Medical Center.

Bus misconduct

A man was arrested for opening a beer on a bus in front of police.

An officer approached him after recognizing him from other alcohol and assault cases.

The man appeared to be sleeping on the bus at the Renton Transit Center Jan. 26.

After refusing to hand over the beer, an officer knocked it out of his hand. So the man opened another alcoholic beverage.

The man had a warrant for his arrest but was released on a clerical error. The officer arrested him for unlawful bus conduct.

Bus stop harassment

A woman yelled sexual obscenities and expletives at police as they arrested her for harassing a 12-year-old boy at a bus stop Jan. 28.

The woman approached the boy, asking how to get to Everett. However, she then told him if she saw him in her house again, she was going to cut him into pieces.

The boy ran to a nearby coffee shop.

He hadn’t been to her house, and she referred to him by the wrong name, he told police.

A friend described the woman as mentally ill and not taking her prescribed medications.

The woman told police she was going blow them up with a cucumber atom bomb on the 400 block of Northeast Sunset Boulevard.

Because of her unmanageable behavior, officers at the Renton jail decided to book her in the King County Jail.

Cedar River theft

A man was lying on the side of the Cedar River Trail when the suspect stole his backpack out from under his arm Jan. 24.

He saw the man run onto Wells Avenue South. The man’s face was covered by a black hooded sweatshirt.

Warrant arrest

Police arrested a 23-year-old man on his birthday after they discovered he had a warrant for his arrest Jan. 20.

The man was pulled over for expired tabs at South Fourth Place.

When police asked him if he had any weapons, he admitted to having marijuana and was booked for it.

Ax bearer

Police arrested a man who was wandering around with a large ax on North 28th Place, after he fled from them.

The ax barer wasn’t alone, but the second man wasn’t arrested Jan. 27.

Indecent exposure

A man was seen several times masturbating in public wearing nothing but a G-string mask on the 400 block of Monroe Avenue Northeast Jan. 28.

Police interviewed the man who admitted he had a drinking problem. He said when he occasionally blacks out, he’s known to wear a G-string mask.

Police didn’t arrest him for lack of evidence.

Purse snatch

A man stole a woman’s purse from her hands in the Fred Meyer parking lot on Rainier Avenue South at about 10 p.m.

The purse was recovered but $150 cash and two bank cards were missing Jan. 20.

Car break-in

A woman’s $700 Coach bag and $350 cash were stolen from her car Jan. 19 outside the 24-Hour Fitness on Northeast Fourth Street.

The right rear passenger window of the Nissan Pathfinder was smashed.