The following information was compiled from Renton Police Department case reports.
An Everett man was having a bad day at work Aug. 23 when he backed up toward a Renton Police officer’s cruiser about 15 feet away at the Gene Coulon Memorial Beach Park boat launch.
Now he was going to wrong way but he stopped short of the cruiser. He continued to drive the wrong way through the parking lot.
By now he had committed three traffic infractions, so the officer turned around to make a traffic stop. The Everett man sped up at “an alarming rate,” perhaps in an effort to elude the officer.
The officer caught up to him at the park’s entrance. The heavy-set driver jumped out of the driver’s seat, his face flushed and his mouth and hands clenched. Instead of getting back in his truck, he took another step toward the officer. This is how someone acts when they’re getting ready to fight.
The two men struggled; an off-duty firefighter, described in the report as a Good Samaritan, offered to help the officer. “Dude, just calm down, relax and let this officer handcuff you so he can talk to you,” the firefighter said. More struggling ensued but eventually the man was handcuffed.
Two officers arrived to help, but even then the man continued to resist efforts to control him. He ended up on the ground again to keep him from trashing around.
He finally talked. It was just after 6 p.m.
He was on his lunch break. He saw the officer behind him when he backed up, but figuring he was already caught, he just kept driving the wrong way.
And he admitted he has a bit of an anger problem.
The 44-year-old suspect was booked into the SCORE regional jail for resisting arrest.
Chevron robbed at gunpoint
The Chevron station on South Grady Way was robbed at gunpoint of about $450 late Aug. 18.
The suspect, possibly Asian or white, pointed a black semi-automatic handgun in his right hand at the clerk and covered his face with his left arm.
He told the clerk to open the register, then ordered him to get on the floor. The suspect told him to scoot back. The suspect removed a small cash box from a cabinet.
The clerk stayed on the floor until he heard the door chime.
A K9 unit searched for the suspect, who was described as 5-foot-6 and wearing a dark gray hooded sweatshirt and dark sunglasses.
Babbling his way to jail
The 34-year-old Seattle man babbled in a made-up language, his shoes in his hand, his feet bare and his sweat pants wet and grass stained.
The officer on a suspicious-person call pulled up next to him the morning of Aug. 12 on Windsor Way Northeast.
He declined medical aid, but he gave the officer his name. He was arrested on a warrant.
In searching the man after his arrest, the officer found a plastic bag inside a pack of cigarettes containing a clear crystalline rock with a powdery substance. Tests confirmed it was methamphetamine.
He was booked into the SCORE regional jail for investigation of possession of dangerous drugs.
No such thing as free parking
There was no parking available at Gene Coulon Memorial Beach Park on Aug. 23, so the Renton woman drove across Lake Washington Boulevard for a place to park.
A man offered his parking spot to her after initially telling her he wasn’t leaving. He moved his truck to a no-parking spot. The Auburn woman put her purse in her trunk and exchanged waves with the man as she walked to the park with her son.
She returned about 2 1/2 hours later to find her purse gone, the window on the driver’s side smashed and her car ransacked. Cash and credit cards were stolen.
