RENTON BLOTTER: Shots fired during teen’s birthday party

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

Two shots were fired at a home filled with teenagers from Renton High School, forcing the youths to hit the floor Oct. 3.

A mother had put on a birthday party for her daughter and gave an open invitation to the school.

At first she didn’t realize the severity of the incident, thinking the noise was firecrackers.

A search by police, on the 1500 block of Lake Avenue South, turned up a 9 mm shell casing and a red bandana.

No one at the party knew anything or would share information about the shooter. Even the daughter pleaded that her mother stop asking questions.

After police asked if she was missing anything, she discovered that her purse, wallet, phone, credit cards and a Social Security card were missing.

The woman contacted the suspect on the phone and arranged to pick up her cell phone at a gas station. When she arrived with police, a group of teens were standing near the phone but claimed they had no relation to it.

Stolen tires

Someone stole about 30 used tires, worth $1,000, from the Discount Tire on Northeast Fourth Street Oct. 2.

The thieves cut open the chain-link fence to where the tires were stored outside.

Man tells fishy tale

A man was arrested for fishing for salmon on the Cedar River in downtown Renton Oct. 16.

After a witness called in the violation, police witnessed the man fishing on the 800 block of North Riverside Drive.

The officer told the man the river was closed for fishing, and asked if he had a license. The man said the license was at home, and he was just “doin’ a little catch and release.”

He lied to police about using a barbed hook, before they discovered a live and flopping salmon in a planter bed nearby.

The man denied catching the fish but was arrested.

Police discovered the man had a no-bail, felony-escape warrant from Community Custody.

Burglary

The back door of a business under construction was smashed in and several power tools taken on the 200 block of Airport Way Oct. 10.

Church burglary

A church in Renton was burglarized twice in one week.

The Renaissance Apostolic Church on East Valley Road had a stage loudspeaker and some wire stolen Oct. 1.

Police reported it was the second of two burglaries.

A pastor at the church saw the missing equipment, before discovering a door was left ajar by the thieves. The pastor decided to active the building’s alarm system.

DUI

A man was stopped for burned-out headlights when police discovered he had doused himself in cologne to try to hide the smell of alcohol at about 2 a.m., Oct. 10.

The man, who also had a six pack of beer in his car, failed a field sobriety test on the corner of Southwest 43rd Street and the East Valley Road.

He was arrested for DUI. Officers took his blood alcohol reading, which came to .136 and .142. The legal limit is .08.

Malicious mischief

The back right window of a woman’s 1992 Honda was smashed but was still intact, on the 100 block of Bremerton Avenue Northeast.

Nothing was taken from the car Oct. 16.