Marijuana sale turns into robbery at gunpoint | BLOTTER

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

A woman called police on Sept. 23 to report she received a call from her daughter, who said she was robbed at gun point near the 2000 block of Jones Avenue South.

When officers arrived at the scene, they contacted the girl and her boyfriend. They said they were in a parking lot to look at the sunset when a car pulled into the same parking lot. A group of men surrounded the car and one of the men pointed a gun at them and said, “Give me all your stuff.”

The man then reached into the car and took their wallets. Another man reached into the car and took an iPhone.

A witness said they saw a group of men hanging around the area and saw them approach the victims’ car, however they did not notice anything out of the ordinary at the time and went back inside.

An officer noted there were minor inconsistencies with the girl and her boyfriend’s accounts, and suspected they might have known at least one of the suspects and might have met up with the men to buy marijuana. The officer also noted it was likely the robbery occurred as described.

Later that day, the girl’s mother contacted officers to report that when the girl and her boyfriend got home, they admitted to being at that location to buy marijuana. The boyfriend said he only knew one of the men involved in the robbery, however he wasn’t the one with the gun nor had he purchased any marijuana from him before.

There is no further information on this case at this time.

PEPPER SPRAY WHEN SCARED: A man contacted police Sept. 24 to report he pepper sprayed someone in the face.

According to the police report, he was driving from work, which is located on the 700 block of South Grady Way, when he saw a red Dodge Charger driving through a parking lot. The car was driving slowly near a patrol vehicle.

The man said there had been multiple vehicle prowls lately so he decided to shine a spot light on the vehicle. The car to a stop. He said there two women and a man in the car.

He pulled up next to the car and said he recognized the driver, a man who was his former employee. He asked the man why he was there, to which the man responded he was patrolling the area. He then told the man he was on private property and needed to leave.

The man said he was not leaving and then exited his vehicle.

The reporting party said the man approached him in an aggressive manner, so he told him to back up. The man continued to approach him, so the reporting party took out his can of mace.

“What are you going to do with that?” asked the man.

The reporting party sprayed the man in his face, and the man walked back to his vehicle. The reporting party then called the police.

The reporting was charged with fourth degree assault.

WRONG NAME: An officer was patrolling the area near 2000 Northeast Sunset Boulevard, an area he described was known for transients and drug activity, when he noticed two men who were tucked away in a cove area.

When he approached them, they began to stuff things away as if they were trying to hide something.

The officer saw burn marks on a foil near them, and suspected they were using heroin, however he did not see them use the foil.

When asked, one of the men gave his name. However, after running it through his system, the officer realized the name he was given was a false one. He asked the man if he would consent to being fingerprinted to confirm his identity, and the man agreed.

The officer let both of the men go as he was not investigating a crime at that point. The fingerprinting analysis came back with a positive identification for the man.

Records showed he had a warrant for arrest with charges of vehicle theft and had bail set at $10,000.

The man was cited for making a false statement to a law enforcement officer.