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

Despite attempts to hide his true identity, a 46-year-old Renton man was arrested June 22 by a persistent Renton Police officer on a state felony warrant for escape.

As he was placed in the patrol car, he told his 36-year-old girlfriend from Renton, “Love you, baby. The DOC got me.” She was arrested on a Kent warrant for criminal trespass.

An officer spotted the suspect putting gas in a white van on 116th Avenue Southeast, an area of numerous gas thefts. He matched the description of one of the suspects.

He didn’t have any identification, other than a business card that wasn’t his. A name he gave the officer didn’t turn up in an initial records check, but it was an alias he had used. That alias led to his real name.

A check using his real name turned up the state Department of Corrections escape warrant and one for fourth-degree assault. He was booked on the warrant and for investigation of new charges, obstructing an officer and making a false statement to a public servant.

Cart full of liquor

Two men didn’t get very far into the parking lot of Safeway in the Highlands when they were stopped pushing a shopping cart full of liquor.

A store security officer had reported to Renton Police that two men had loaded the cart inside the store with the liquor and merchandise and feared they would attempt to leave without paying for it.

The officer was walking toward the entrance as the two men were walking out. The security officer yelled, “That’s him.”

The 19-year-old suspect from Renton let go of the cart in the parking lot and said, “I don’t have anything.” He walked away; the officer put him in handcuffs.

The second suspect, 18, of Kent was detained walking out the Safeway entrance.

The two men were released; citations for third-degree theft were to be sent to Renton prosecutors.

The liquor totaled about $340; the merchandise totaled about $200.

Drinking at Piazza

He was drinking beer, a 52-year-old transient admitted to a bike officer at the Piazza Park in downtown Renton.

The man, who is known to officers, was sitting in what’s referred to as the Circle Park because of the circular concrete seating.

As the officer approached, he could see an open can. The man dropped his head and told he officer he knows he shouldn’t drink in the park.

The man poured out the fortified beer in the beauty bark. It was golden brown and foamed and the officer recognized the smell of beer. The officer told the man to keep an eye out for a citation in his post office box.

Shot in leg

A 27-year-old Renton man shot himself in the thigh while showing a friend his .45 caliber, semi-automatic handgun June 21 in the 2100 block of Northeast Ninth Place.

Several officers were dispatched to the call for an accidental gunshot wound.

The wounded man’s friend, a 24-year-old Renton man, told officers he used his belt on the man’s leg as a tourniquet. He put the handgun in a safe in a closet.

In investigating officers saw several rifles in the closet.

The two men insisted there was no dispute between them and the shooting was accidental. Officers found no reason to remove the weapons from the home.

Lewd conduct

A 54-year-old Seattle man told an officer he was waiting for a bus to Seattle in the Highlands, not urinating in public outside a grocery store as reported by a witness.

The witness, a Bellevue woman, saw the man with his pants down, his belt undone and urinating near the entrance to the store. She honked at him; he continued to urinate.

The man had “no shame,” she told an officer.

He was released, although he was told not to return to the store.