Billowing evidence reveals warrants | POLICE BLOTTER (part2)

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

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

The overwhelming odor and smoke of marijuana billowed from a minivan parked at Kiwanis Park early on Nov. 18 as the officer talked to the couple inside.

The minivan caught the eye of an officer patrolling at about 2 a.m. The Highlands park closes as sunset and the minivan was in a no-parking zone.

The 18-year-old female passenger was smoking the marijuana cigarette. She lives nearby and was allowed to walk home.

However, the driver, a 20-year-old Kent man, was booked into the Kent City Jail on numerous warrants.

MARIJUANA TRESPASS: A 19-year-old Seattle man was trespassed from the City View Church property on Southwest Langston Road late on Nov. 14 after a Renton Police officer found him smoking marijuana in his car.

When the suspect rolled down his window, the smell and smoke of marijuana came out. A small jar of a fuzzy green plant substance was sitting next to him. The marijuana weighed 2.2 grams.

DIAMOND RING THEFT: A man shopping for a diamond ring for his girlfriend on Nov. 16 fled from a jewelry story on Sunset Boulevard Northeast after an employee handed him one worth $3,000.

He was last seen getting into a dark-colored vehicle on Kirkland Avenue Northeast at about 5 p.m.

Inside the store he was wearing a dark jacket, dark pants and black shoes and his hoodie was pulled over his head.

LOGGING EQUIPMENT STOLEN: A man fled from Bryant Tractor the afternoon of Nov. 16 with logging equipment and a saw worth about $650.

He grabbed the tree-climbing kit when only one employee remained in the showroom, after looking around for several minutes.

He ran and was picked up by a Toyota pickup on Lind Avenue Southwest near I-405. A customer who followed him obtained the license-plate number of a Toyota registered to a 47-year-old Thurston County man. The suspect was described as about 20 years old.

A pack of cigarettes the suspect may have left behind was processed for fingerprints.

A YOUNG SHOPLIFTER: A girl, about 10 years old, walked behind the counter of a convenience store on Northeast Fourth Street on Nov. 13 after two adults, presumably her parents, walked outside with the clerk.

She took several scratch lottery tickets, then walked to the back of the store where she concealed them. She did this two more times, concealing two vapor cigarettes. All this was captured on store security cameras.

She then walked outside and met up with the couple.

The theft wasn’t detected until the next day when a store manager noticed that several scratch tickets weren’t listed in a transaction record.