From: “Denis Law” <dlaw@ci.renton.wa.us> Date: March 1, 2008 12:53:35 PM PST
To: “Don Persson” <dpersson@ci.renton.wa.us>, “Greg Taylor” <gtaylor@ci.renton.wa.us>, “King Parker” <kparker@ci.renton.wa.us>, “Marcie Palmer” <mpalmer@ci.renton.wa.us>, “Randy Corman” <rcorman@ci.renton.wa.us>, “Rich Zwicker” <rzwicker@ci.renton.wa.us>, “Terri Briere” <tbriere@ci.renton.wa.us>
Cc: “Jay Covington” <jcovington@ci.renton.wa.us>, “Julia Medzegian” <jmedzegian@ci.renton.wa.us>, “Kevin Milosevich” <kmilosevich@ci.renton.wa.us>
Subject: Benson/Cascade

Dear Councilmembers,

The city of Renton grew by 16,272 residents today with little obvious impact. I spent the evening out with the police last night and it was a relatively quiet . There were many traffic stops, a narcotics arrest and clearly a significant police presence. Those driving the area were certainly aware that Renton Police were in the neighborhood, and the King County Sheriff added extra cars to assist during the transition.

In addition to extra patrol officers today, the Traffic Division has been working the area. They have made some warrant arrests and there was an armed robbery at the Mission Ridge apartments on the Petrovitsky Road. It was apparently a drug-deal gone bad.

I recommend you drive the area if you have not yet done so. It’s quite large and there are a lot of homes, including some very nice neighborhoods. And there are tons of apartments, which have been the focal point of a lot of crime activity. We had adopted a little city!

So far, so good! I’ll let you know if there is any other news this weekend.

Denis