The following was compiled from Renton Police Department case reports.
A 28-year-old Bellevue man known to Renton Police and wanted on a $5,100 warrant managed to elude capture on June 19 after he was spotted at a grocery store on Northeast Sunset Boulevard.
As he ran from an officer, he tried but failed to grab the driver-side door handle of a vehicle driving by. He ignored commands to stop; an officer tased him, but he ran into traffic on Sunset, where he was almost hit by several vehicles.
Officers ended the pursuit after receiving another priority call and the suspect escaped. However, he was issued a citation.
BIG PARTY: Four attempts over about 90 minutes were needed to quiet and then disperse a crowd that had grown to about 150 people at a party in a house on Glennwood Place Southeast in the Highlands.
Officers responded at about 11:30 p.m. June 19 to investigate multiple complaints of a loud party. Up to 100 people were parking or trying to get into the house. The owner promised to keep the noise down.
The officer stayed for another 20 minutes, during which another 40 to 50 people arrived. The owner was warned officers would send everyone home if there were more 911 calls. The officer left at about midnight.
About 20 minutes later, the officer was dispatched back because of a complaint. Officers dispersed the crowd from the house and neighborhood.
At about 1 a.m. on June 20, the crowd had returned and now 60 to 70 people were fighting in the street. Officers again dispersed the crowd.
The owner was given a written warning and told she could be cited for breach of peace.
ROAD RAGE GUNSHOTS: Gunfire shattered the windshield of a Pontiac Grand Am June 20 in a road-rage incident on northbound State Route 167.
The 18-year-old victim from Kent had swerved on the freeway to avoid a collision at about 7:30 p.m. She turned onto South Grady Way. A car pulled up next to her and a female passenger got out, yelled at her and took a fighting stance. She punched a passenger from the victim’s car in the face.
The suspect vehicle followed the victim’s into a hotel parking lot.
Gunshots shattered the Grand Am’s windshield. Scared, the victim fled. A Renton Police officer later noticed the damaged Grand Am parked along 126th Avenue South. She gave a description of the suspects.