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

Officers were already in the parking lot of Fred Meyer downtown Aug. 30 arresting a burglary suspect when they heard screams the store had been robbed and the suspects were running.

Officers caught up with one of the runners at an apartment complex on Maple Avenue Southwest, just as another suspect approached carrying Fred Meyer merchandise in bags. He turned and ran after ignoring an officer’s commands to get on the ground.

Two officers pursued the 23-year-old Seattle man on foot. One officer was hurt when he threw the bags at her, hitting her in the face. She told the other officer to continue the foot pursuit. She was later treated at Valley Medical Center.

The suspect’s loosely fitting pants fell to his mid thighs as he ran The injured officer had caught up by now and assisted in taking the suspect into custody after she hit him in the back of the head to get him to relax.

Stuffed down the legs of his pants were packages of underwear, a new pair of jeans and a pair of new tennis shoes. Then there was the merchandise in his two bags.

He was apologetic. He told officers he was homeless and had bought the clothes on the street from a “booster,” admitting the clothes has probably been stolen.

The recovered items were returned to Fred Meyer. The Seattle man was booked into the SCORE regional jail for obstructing officers.

BOTH FIGHTERS CITED: Two men were cited for fourth-degree assault Aug. 29 in Kennydale after they fought over payment for the construction work one was doing for the other.

The subcontractor from Renton claims he’s owed $3,000 for the work, but the other man, who lives in Seattle, says payment isn’t due until the work is finished.

The subcontractor says he was called a racial epithet, which the other man denied. Blows were exchanged. Both men were cited and charges were referred to  a prosecutor.

SHE INGESTED HEROIN: A 25-year-old Des Moines woman swayed, felt very hot and became nauseated after she was arrested Aug. 19 at Wal-Mart downtown for possessing heroin.

She needed to see a doctor. A doctor would check her at the SCORE regional jail. But she didn’t want to wait. Just before her arrest, she swallowed heroin and several methodone pills.

The officer drove her to Valley Medical Center, where she was X rayed. Inside her stomach was a large piece of metal – the clip used to secure the bag of heroin.

Surgeons operated immediately.

The woman had been stopped for shoplifting; a records check showed a felony warrant for drug possession.

In a search, officers found a small amount of a brown-liquid substance or heroin. A small purse contained capped and uncapped needles, two of which contained heroin.

She hadn’t shot up yet because she was interrupted after she went into the Wal-Mart restroom.

Officers also found a drivers license belonging to another woman. She was released pending the filing of charges.

SHOPLIFTER MAKES CLEAN GETAWAY: A security officer at Fred Meyer on the Benson Highway arriving at the start of his day Aug. 26 spotted a known shoplifter in the parking lot.

He followed as the man walked in, grabbed a shopping cart and walked to the vacuum cleaners. The suspect put two Shark Rocket vacuums, valued at $200 each, into the cart and removed the alarms.

He then pushed the cart out of the store without paying. He drove off in a late-model, mint-green Honda Civic. The security officer took down a license plate number.

The suspect is described as a white male, mid 30s, about 6-foot-2 and weighing 215 pounds who looks like a football player. His sandy-colored hair is cut in a short crew cut.

Investigators have security video of the theft.