The following was compiled from Renton Police Department case reports.

Renton Police officers discovered a small notebook Aug. 3 that contained names and numbers and descriptions of criminal activity after arresting a 29-year-old Edgewood man for smoking heroin.

Officers found the man inside a silver sedan in a parking lot on the Benson Highway at about 3:45 p.m. One noticed a black tarry substance inside a plastic baggie, probably black-tar heroin.

His friend was inside the Fred Meyer “probably stealing things.” The suspect gave officers permission to search the car, while he sat on the curb in handcuffs. Located were 19 new baggies, tinfoil with burned residue, baggies of white substances, which tested as methamphetamine.

Inside a gym bag on the backseat were two pill bottles, one containing a brown residue. The small spiral-bound notebook was inside the bag. One page referred to “white,” which is white heroin. Another page contained names and dollar amounts which may be related to drug sales.

The suspect was booked into the SCORE regional jail for investigation of drug possession.

SECURITY OFFICER ASSAULTED: A store security officer was assaulted Aug. 10 at Walmart on Rainier Avenue by a man and woman who had just shoplifted t-shirts worth $8.44.

The security officer stopped the two suspects after they left the store. Each was wearing a stolen t-shirt and a third was stuffed down the man’s pants.

One suspect wrapped his arms around the security officer and punched her from behind. The woman grabbed her by the hair and dragged her to the ground.

Another security officer came to help her, but the assault had stopped and the two suspects had fled. A juvenile with the two suspects ran off with the security officer’s cell phone.

The suspects were detained a short distance away; the man was hiding inside a store. He was also wanted on a state warrant for escape.

They were booked into the SCORE regional jail for investigation of second-degree robbery. On the way to the jail, the male suspect aggressively shuffled in the rear seat. The officer stopped the patrol car and discovered a potential illegal drug hidden in the crack of his rear end. The officer couldn’t obtain enough to test because the substance had been heavily ground into the car’s rubber mat.

The security officer was treated and released.

Eventually the man was charged with violating a no-contact order involving the woman, as well as fourth-degree assault and third-degree theft. The woman was to be cited for fourth-degree assault and third-degree theft in Renton.

IN A HEADLOCK: A 32-year-old Seattle woman was put in a headlock and pulled to the ground Aug. 21 at a store on Rainier Avenue by a customer at the store.

The two had confronted each other after she had asked an employee, who was talking with the suspect, to let her pay for her items.

The suspect went outside, then returned. The victim put a soda bottle between them because “he was in her face.”

Others came to her defense when he took her to the ground. The 59-year-old suspect told her to call 911, then left in his truck.

He was later stopped. He told officers he had just been assaulted at the store by the victim. He had a small scratch under his left eye. He was released but would be cited for fourth-degree assault and driving with a suspended license.

NOT AN UPGRADE: An employee of a deli on Wells Avenue was informed in a phone call Aug. 14 that the store’s computer needed three upgrades.

The employee asked her to call back when the manager returned, but the caller insisted the upgrades were urgent and the computer system could crash without them.

The caller then guided the employee through the upgrades, completing the three transactions.

The manager discovered three money transfers originating from a different time zone but no upgrades.

Two transactions, for about $3,400, went through, but the manager stopped the third transfer.

DRUG ARREST: Random people getting in an out of a Dodge minivan to beg for money in a parking lot on Sunset Boulevard North at about noon Aug. 13 caught the attention of an employee of a nearby business.

An officer found a woman asleep in the passenger seat; a man was bent over in his seat, a rubber band tied around his left arm and a needle penetrating the skin.

The needle was loaded with a brownish liquid, which later tested positive for heroin.

The 27-year-old Renton man startled when the officer asked him to put the needle on the dash. As the officer wrote, the man was “kind enough” to cap the needle. He’s been addicted to heroin for three years.

He’s also wanted on state felony warrant for escape and a DUI misdemeanor warrant.

He said he would talk to a detective about where he purchased the heroin but not in the van. A relative in the car gave officers a drug kit the man had in the driver’s seat.

He was booked into the SCORE regional jail for investigation of drug possession. Detectives were to follow up.