The following was compiled from Renton Police Department case reports.

A dispute erupted between two 15-year-old boys at Lindbergh High School Oct. 17 over bullying involving a pencil box.

The classroom teacher broke up the dispute, then called for assistance from school Principal Tres Genger and school security.

After the incident, Lindbergh staff was “re-counseled” on spotting bullying and then stopping such incidents from escalating.

Each boy was suspended for five days but that was reduced to three days for the boy who was bullied.

A Renton Police officer met with Genger on Oct. 21 after the incident was reported to the Renton Police Department by the bullied boy’s family.

Students in the class routinely hid the boy’s pencil box, then laughed as he searched the classroom for it, according to the family’s report. In the incident leading up to the fight, the 15-year-old again hid the pencil box and other students said, “It’s over here” as the boy searched for it. He found the pencil box at his desk. The other 15-year-old laughed at him and said it was there all the time.

The boy responded, “Shut up. It’s not funny.” He went back to work. But the other boy hit him over the head with a textbook, hard enough to knock his face into the desk.

The victim jumped up and yelled an expletive. The other boy punched him in the face. The victim picked up the boy, slammed him onto a table and began “beating” him.

When the incident was reported to police, the victim had small abrasions on his face, which he told officers was caused by being hit and having his head slammed on the table.

In the interview with the officer Oct. 21, Genger said he used the pencil box and the jeering as examples as behavior that needs to be stopped immediately to protect students.

The officer noted that the report was for documentation only and the handling of the incident was left to the Renton School District, which is prohibited by privacy laws from talking about student discipline.

MAN THROWS DOWN GIRLFRIEND OVER DEBIT CARD: A 40-year-old Renton woman was thrown to the ground Oct. 1 by her boyfriend of two years after she refused to give him his debit card so he could return to a Renton casino.

The victim waited about three weeks to report the assault, but the injuries were still healing when she did.

The 45-year-old boyfriend became angry with the victim because she was talking to another man at the bar while he gambled. She decided to leave, after getting her purse from the boyfriend’s car.

The boyfriend soon followed her in the car on Southwest Sunset Boulevard, where he asked for his debit card. She refused to give him the card after she asked whether he was going to spend more money gambling.

She ran after he got a “blank look” on his face. He caught up with her, grabbed her hair and threw her to the ground. She threw the debit card at him.

He was initially arrested on a SeaTac warrant and booked into the SCORE regional jail on Oct. 22 but the booking was later changed to fourth-degree assault.

NOTHING HERE BUT PUMPKINS: A car prowler left behind on Oct. 23 two large pumpkins covered by a blanket in the backseat of a car parked in The Landing.

The owner, a Newcastle woman, discovered the broken rear passenger side window at about 11 p.m.

Nothing apparently was stolen. Damage to the vehicle was estimated at about $300.

MAN ASSAULTED DOWNTOWN: After he was assaulted downtown on Oct. 22, a 59-year-old Renton man decided to go home and drink alcohol in an attempt to stop the bleeding.

When that didn’t work, he decided to drive himself to Valley Medical Center, where security called police after he became combative with hospital staff.

An officer found him sitting in a room with blood on his face and jeans. Three men assaulted him at the transit center downtown, but he couldn’t remember when. He didn’t want to report the assault and he was done talking to the officer.

COUNTERFEIT: A woman who used a fake $5 at a mini-mart on South Grady Way Oct. 22 told the clerk she got it at a smoke shop in the Renton Highlands.

The clerk recognized the bill was a fake; she kept ahold of it while calling police. The woman left before officers arrived because she didn’t want to be named in any police reports.

THREE OUT OF FOUR: Thieves stole three tires and rims from a Honda Odyssey Oct. 21 parked at a used-car lot on Southwest Sunset Boulevard, leaving the mini-van sitting on the ground.

The thieves couldn’t manage to get the fourth tire off – the passenger-side front tire –  which was still partially attached to the mini-van.