A dispute over who brake-checked whom | POLICE BLOTTER

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

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

A young Renton couple who had just spent a long night with their sick child at Valley Medical Center Jan. 9 was driving home slowly in wet and potentially icy conditions.

Another car followed closely behind them in the 2300 block of Benson Road South and when possible pulled around the couple. Then the driver slammed the brakes, forcing the couple’s car to the curb where a tire blew.

The young father got out, as did the female driver of the other car. They argued and she hit the father in the lip while he kept his arms at his sides.

They both drove off, but the young couple was able to provide a license plate number. The driver, a 25-year-old Renton woman, told an officer the couple’s car had brake-checked her. She was afraid the other driver was going to punch her, so she punched him.

She faced a citation of four-degree assault.

FAKE CHECK: The man who claimed he was from Kirkland paid for a fireplace insert with a check for $2,673 in mid-December and asked for delivery to the company’s store in Renton.

About a month later, the company heard from its bank. The check was a fake. Attempts to contact the buyer failed. The number on the check belongs to a home-services company which had never heard of the buyer.

An employee provided police with a description of man, including his huge hands.

NO SLEEPING: The owner of a shop on Main Avenue South didn’t want the man sleeping in a sleeping bag behind his business, so he called police.

In running the man’s name, an officer discovered a felony warrant for third-degree assault from the King County Sheriff’s Office.

He was transported to SCORE regional jail, but then taken to Valley Medical Center for medical reasons.

PURSE SNATCH: A man grabbed a 26-year-old Renton woman’s purse from a stroller on South Second Street Jan. 8, then pushed her when she tried to take it back.

The man ran east on South Second Street but a K9 unit was unable to find him.

The $300 purse contained personal documents, including birth certificates and Social Security cards, debit cards and gift cards.

T-SHIRTS STOLEN: A loss-prevention officer followed three men Dec. 31 from Walmart on Rainier Avenue South who were concealing stolen T-shirts.

One of the men tried to run from the 23-year-old security officer, but she and other employees detained him. But he resisted and all fell to the ground.

A second suspect tried to pull the officers off of him, then started punching the employees, who broke off the contact. No one was injured.

The suspects then fled in a rented 2016 Dodge Charger with the Hanes T-shirts worth $50.