Woman arrested in homeless camp | POLICE BLOTTER PART 1

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

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

A 38-year-old Seattle woman tracked by a Tukwila Police K9 Unit to a homeless camp in a wooded area off Carr Road Oct. 7 was arrested for fourth-degree assault.

Her boyfriend of five years and the father of her 9-month-old child told officers she bit him on the head while he tried to stop her from attacking a couple walking on a trail leading to the camp.

The boyfriend was smoking a cigarette when he struck up a conversation with the couple. For no reason the suspect began attacking the couple, a 27-year-old Seatac man and a 25-year-old Kent woman.

The boyfriend and the Seatac man tried to stop the suspect from attacking the Kent woman. The suspect tried to gouge her eye.

The Kent woman was able to get free and ran, ending up at a Texaco gas station and was joined by the two men. She didn’t want to pursue charges against the suspect.

A Renton officer and Tukwila K9 Unit found the homeless camp up the trail on the north side of 10400 block of Carr Road. The officers announced their presence and the woman emerged from a tent. She declined to be interviewed.

She was booked into the SCORE regional jail for investigation of domestic violence fourth-degree assault for biting her boyfriend.

MAN PUNCHES EX-GIRLFRIEND: A 25-year-old Renton man was arrested Oct. 3 after he punched his former girlfriend twice near her temple with his fist.

The 17-year-old girl told officers her ex-boyfriend has been stalking her since they broke up. They had argued at a restaurant, then she walked off toward a church to seek safety. He followed her and they continued to argue.

He pushed her against the glass window of a building; two employees of a nearby business told him to stop.

He grabbed her and she hit him in the face to try to get away. He then hit her and walked off on South Third Street. She went into a church, where she thought she would be safe.

The suspect was arrested nearby and booked into the SCORE regional jail for investigation of fourth-degree assault.

ARMED MEN ROB HOTEL: Three armed men robbed a hotel on East Valley Road of about $1,000 in cash early Oct. 1.

One of the men entered first to inquire about the cost to rent a room. Unhappy with the price quoted, he left but returned about 10 minutes with two other men.

Two men pointed their handguns at the clerk and said they would kill him if he didn’t get down on the floor.

Cash was removed from two drawers and two other cabinets were forced open. In a back area they stole a cash box with hotel coupons and Starbucks gift cards worth about $50.

They demanded he open safety-deposit boxes but the renters had the second key.

A suspect grabbed the wallet from his pants as he lay of the floor, but he didn’t have any cash and his credit cards weren’t stolen. The three then fled out of the front door, their hoodies pulled tightly to their faces.

The K9 unit from the Tukwila Police Department searched the area, but the suspects were gone.

BROWN BAG DEAD GIVEWAY: “Whaaaa? Whaa you talkin’ about?”

But the 28-year-old Tacoma man wasn’t fooling the Renton Police officer who saw the bloodshot eyes and heard the slurred speech.

The officer on foot patrol at the Renton Transit Center downtown saw the obviously intoxicated man holding a large open can partially hidden in a brown paper bag. That’s typically the way people drink alcohol in public.

He was hunched over a railing near bus bay No. 5. The officer asked him what was he drinking today, which is when the man asked the officer to explain herself. The top of opened can showed “8.1% ALC/VOL.”

He was arrested for unlawful transit conduct for drinking alcohol in public. The officer emptied out the cold-to-the-touch, 24-ounce can of Hurricane High Gravity Malt Liquor.

The Tacoma man was told to leave and to expect a criminal citation in the mail.