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

A 22-year-old Renton man known to officers was chased down in Liberty Park after shoplifting at the Dollar Tree store on Bronson Way – and flashing a knife to an employee outside the store who tried to stop him.

The suspect threw the knife to the ground after a Renton Police officer caught up with him when be became trapped by the chain-link fence around the new library under construction.

The officer recovered English toffee bars, a butane lighter, tiramisu cake and a Sparkling Ice beverage.

The suspect is known to shoplift at the store. He had a bulge in his pants when he walked out and ignored the employee’s plea that he pay for the items. The employee didn’t follow the suspect because he feared for his life.

The suspect told officers he was hungry because the Salvation Army didn’t feed him and he was asked to leave. He denied threatening the Dollar Store employee with a knife, which had fallen out because of the food stuffed in his coat pocket.

He was booked into the King County Jail March 30 for investigation of robbery and for obstructing a law enforcement officer. He also had a warrant for second-degree attempted theft.

NOT ACTUALLY FUNNY: A 29-year-old Renton man called 911 for help April 5 because he was high on PCP, had hit a pole while exiting I-405 and didn’t know his name.

The problem is, none of that was true. He just thought it was “funny” to make a false report to police.

Two Renton Police officers and two state troopers weren’t amused.

Renton officers spotted his 2015 black Camaro in the drive-through at McDonalds on Northeast Fourth Street. After the man got his food, an officer stepped in front of the Camaro so he wouldn’t drive off and possibly hurt someone.

Instead, the man hit the gas like he was going to hit the officer, who jumped out of the way. He did stop, though.

He wasn’t on PCP and there was no damage to his car. But he said that all police officers were corrupt and deserved responding to a fake call.

He eventually apologized and was cited for false reporting.

ABUSE AT HOMELESS CAMP: A 39-year-old homeless woman reported to police April 5 that her husband punched her in the face and body at their homeless camp off Naches Avenue Southwest.

The husband apparently was angry because she had taken money from his account. He also tried to choke her.

The victim initially gave her report to officers outside Fred Meyer on Rainier Avenue. Her husband tried several time to reach her by phone. Fearful, she was reluctant to take officers to the tent but was assured she would be escorted in and out. Officers were having difficulty finding the camp.

The husband was found sleeping in a tent halfway up a steep hill. He claimed his wife assaulted him but no injuries were visible. She got hurt when she hit a tree leaving camp, he said.

The husband was booked into the SCORE regional jail for investigation of fourth-degree assault, domestic violence. The victim wanted to return to the camp.

TOO CLUCKING LOUD: How long must hens go cluck, cluck, cluck before their owner is cited for having too many noisy animals inside the city?

For one Renton Police officer it was about an hour. The clucking started quietly at about 6:55 a.m. on April 2, but by 7 one of the hen’s clucks were audible out on the street. Then silence, then more loud cackling that went on for the better part of an hour.

“The cackling was loud enough to be annoying and would be enough to cause someone to have a valid complaint,” the officer wrote. City code allows for a $250 fine.

The officer had been there before because of a noisy rooster.

The officer told the owner to downsize the flock, starting with the dominant hens. She had already started that, after another officer visited in late March following a complaint and earlier code violations. She had 23 chickens then; Renton’s codes allow for nine chickens.

The situation on Northeast Second Place will be re-evaluated later this month.