A possible Sky sighting in Renton | Police blotter

Published 4:32 pm Monday, December 12, 2011

The following information has been compiled based on City of Renton Police reports.

A Puyallup man thought he saw Sky Metalwala, the 2-year-old boy missing for several weeks on the Eastside, at the IKEA store in Renton on Nov. 12.

He contacted Renton Police on Nov. 23 to report the possible sighting. He told officers that the child with a couple who spoke either Russian or Ukrainian looked like the missing Sky. The boy was asleep in the stroller; a girl around 6 years old was with the couple, too.

The man told officers he called the tip line set up by the Bellevue Police Department about two days after seeing the couple and child at IKEA. A Bellevue detective told him to ask the Renton Police Department to obtain store security footage from Nov. 12.

An overwhelming smell of marijuana

A 20-year-old Renton woman was arrested Nov. 21 after her 42-year-old roommate called police about the smell of marijuana coming from her room.

Officers responding to a home in the 2300 block of Northeast 13th Street at about 7 p.m. asked the woman to step out of her bedroom. From 10 feet they could smell an overwhelming odor of marijuana coming from the room, along with billowing smoke.

Inside the room were three teenaged boys, whom the officers recognized from earlier contacts. They denied that the 4.12 grams of marijuana and a pipe belonged to them; they were told to leave.

The woman told officers the marijuana and pipe belonged to her. She was booked into the SCORE jail for investigation of possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

Pellets fired at at window

Someone fired pellets at a window in Merrill Gardens on Burnett Avenue the evening of Nov. 26.

A resident heard three gunshots, peaked out the curtains and saw three people standing on Williams Avenue. In the morning, he discovered his window was broken.