RENTON BLOTTER: Nine shots heard in Benson Hill area

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

Police found nine spent .45-caliber shell bullet casings on the 18900 block of 104th Place Southeast, after several neighbors heard shooting.

At first police arrived, but couldn’t find sign of an illegal discharge July 15.

Police later returned to the area after an intoxicated man complained that someone killed his dog.

His 8-year-old Boston Terrier had died, but there wasn’t any obvious sign of injury to the dog.

While he was talking to the man, he saw the shells outside the man’s house.

The man denied hearing a shooting or owning a .45-caliber weapon.

Police were unable to locate any damaged buildings, victims or suspects.

House ransacked

A woman returned from a hair appointment to find her home had been ransacked and her jewelry stolen July 27.

It appeared that the suspects kicked in her front door on the 1800 block of Northeast 38th Street.

The thieves took her banking information as well as two jewelry boxes. Police recovered her carry-on bag left at a park and ride.

Car theft

A woman was grocery shopping with her two young children when she found her 1998 Subaru Legacy had been stolen July 17.

She left the wagon locked on the 300 block of Renton Center Way Southwest. She returned with the groceries and the kids to find it missing.

Car prowl

A purse and iPod were stolen from a 1996 Chevy Blazer on the 300 block of South Third Street July 23.

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

Timber stolen

A man reported five large fir timber logs stolen from a Fairwood apartment complex on the 14600 block of Southeast 176th Street, July 27.

The wood, which was meant to be cut into long beams, was estimated to cost about $3,000.

Credit card fraud

After a man returned from work overseas with the military, he learned a credit card had been taken out in his name.

He reported the theft on the 16200 block of 135th Avenue Southeast in Fairwood.

He suspects his sister’s former boyfriend, who had a history of fraud and drug use, to have taken out the card in his name, stealing about $500.

The boyfriend had been caught with a large amount of the man’s mail in 2004. The man was in New York, when the money was stolen.