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

A Calgary, Canada, man’s refusal to pay cab fare and disobeying an officer’s commands landed him in jail.

Police were called to a hotel July 27 on East Valley Road when a cabbie reported a couple refused to pay its fare.

The Calgary man told the officer he wasn’t paying the fare because the cabbie’s driving was reckless, which had scared his wife and children.

But the officer pointed out the family arrived safely and, regardless of their perception of his driving, the cab driver completed his service and was owed payment. To not pay is third-degree theft.

The man interrupted the officer, told him to arrest him if he must and then walked away toward the lobby entrance to his waiting wife. He ignored orders to stop.

The officer caught up with the man, who resisted the officer’s attempts to stop him; he had an odor of intoxicants. Eventually, the man was placed in the police cruiser. He was taken to SCORE, the regional jail, for investigation of obstructing an officer. He told the officer he resisted because he feared for his family’s safety.

His wife paid the fare after she was told not doing so would constitute theft.

Man looks up dress at car wash

A woman vacuuming her car at a car wash on Rainier Avenue South July 28 felt something on her leg.

A petite man was looking up, presumably under her sun dress. He told her he had bent down to look for his wallet.

She told him to get away; he said he was sorry and drove off in a white sedan.

She told police she could identify the man. She said the touching was obviously unwanted and scared her.

There is a security camera at the car wash. Detectives were to follow up  because the case involves sexual motivation.

Bleeding man treated twice

A Renton officer involuntarily committed a man the evening of July 25 after the man was found bleeding profusely from the head at a bus stop at Carr Road and South 43rd Street.

The officer was concerned about the man’s mental state, so he called for an ambulance to take him to the emergency room at nearby Valley Medical Center.

The man was treated outside the emergency room but was not admitted as he had been treated hours earlier for his head wound. He wasn’t admitted because of his criminal history and violent temper tantrums.

The man was released but was seen standing in the middle of South 43rd Street. He reached the bus stop but was not allowed on the bus because of his injuries. He then walked off and the officer was unable to find him.