RENTON BLOTTER: Group of students suspended from middle school for sexual assault game

The following information was compiled from City of Renton police reports:

About 25 to 30 students were suspended for up to five days from Nelsen Middle School after participating in a game that involved touching girls’ breasts and buttocks Oct. 7.

The girl, later discovered to have created the game, first came to her parents and police with a report that the boys had slapped her butt as a part of a game on her way home from school.

She then told police they followed her with a new game where she claimed they stuck their hands under her bra.

The vice principal spent a day interviewing students to discover the girl had in fact instigated the game, including grabbing the boy’s hands and placing them inside her bra.

She confessed to making up the event where boys slapped her butt.

The vice principal doled out the punishment.

Coffee-stand robbery

A man in his 20s is suspected of robbing the Big Foot Java on Bronson Way North with a shot gun or rifle Oct. 6.

The barista was cleaning up, when the man walked up to the stand with the gun. He told her he wasn’t going to hurt her, but he needed the money.

She told him she couldn’t open that till and that there wasn’t any money anyway. This angered the man, so she opened another till, with less than $100 in $1 and $5 bills.

He took the money and fled. Police reviewed the video that showed a black male, about 5-foot-8, 180-200 pounds with a black ski mask with baggy black and white clothing and light-colored blue jeans.

Chain ripped from man’s neck

Three females reached into a car and ripped a gold chain off of a man’s neck before fleeing on foot on foot from the parking lot at 365 Renter Center Way Oct. 10.

Police arrived shortly after but didn’t find the suspects. The necklace was estimated to cost about $450.

Injured cat

A bicyclist blocked the road for a cat who was injured and couldn’t use two of its legs Oct. 3.

He waited until animal control arrived to retrieve the cat from the 3000 block of Northeast Sunset Boulevard.

The officer wrapped the cat in a blanket it took it to an emergency hospital.

Attempted robbery

Two teenagers punched a man in the stomach and tried to take his cell phone as he walked down the 400 block of Hardie Avenue Southwest.

He told them it wasn’t good to be in a gang before they punched him. The man escaped the boys by jumping over a fence.

Storage unit break-in

Someone broke into a storage locker and stole thousands in professional paint equipment being used for a nearby job, Sept. 27.

The self-storage place on the 3400 block of Northeast Fourth Street didn’t have security cameras.

It appears the suspects entered the unit by peeling back some fencing.

The following information was compiled from King County Sheriff’s Reports:

Man accidentally moons child

A mother called police after a man “mooned” an apartment complex and unintentionally exposed himself to a child at a playground Oct. 2.

The man exposed his buttocks and gestured toward a building where he had just been in a dispute with a neighbor at the Fairwood Apartments.

The playground was located to the side of him. He wasn’t arrested.

Computer, Play Station stolen

A man’s front door was forced open and his computer and Play Station stolen Oct. 4 on the 18300 block of East Spring Lake Drive Southeast.

Deputies responded from a radio call that the alarm had gone off, but the assailants left before the officer or the homeowner arrived.