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Car week brings them all out, doesn’t it.
The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office said a 47-year-old man was arrested Sunday on suspicion of attacking a woman with a vase at the Pebble Beach Lodge.
The sheriff’s office said deputies responded to the call at 6 p.m. following a report that Lawrence Paul Elliott of Beverley Hills had thrown a vase at a woman.
and put a “For Sale” sign on it. A fool and his money . . .
In a July 6 lawsuit, Bellevue, Wash., resident Todd Lozier claims RM Auctions and Monterey Auction Co. misrepresented the 1968 Shelby GT500 KR fastback when it was placed up for auction at the Monterey Conference Center Aug. 14, 2009.
Lozier contends the car is worth between $30,000 and $50,000 less than he paid for it. The engine block, transmission and other parts were not properly date-code stamped and rather bear dates “that prove they are not original and do not belong on this vehicle,” Lozier’s lawsuit says.
If this fool was willing to part with $100,000 on an old car, why didn’t he get a CarFax or something. Pay a mechanic to look at it. Heck get an uncle that knows more about cars than the car crazy rich guy does. I side with the auction house on this one.
Is this the ‘victim’ of the Pebble Beach Art Theft shopping for replacement paintings?
One answer may come from an anonymous videographer with the YouTube moniker of Studebaker Falcon. He captures a man who looks a lot like Amadio perusing the bargain paintings at Last Chance Mercantile while appearing to make notes on his iPhone.
Insurance investigators look for proof of ownership, DA backs off on charges against “victims”.
The saga began when the artwork was reported stolen from a rented Pebble Beach home in September. Its value has been estimated by Amadio at up to $27 million for a collection said to include works by Jackson Pollock, Van Gogh, Miro and Rembrandt.
County prosecutors last week decided not to file charges stemming from a sheriff’s investigation looking into whether the men may have filed a false police report, sheriff’s Cmdr. Mike Richards said.
A sheriff’s detective recently had an “informal discussion” with the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office to determine if criminal charges related to the reported burglary might be filed, Richards said.
132,000 hats @ $34 ea. 4.8 million in hats, sheeshe.
The tent is situated so that “all 37,500 (attendees per day) have to walk past our front door,” Muscutt said with a smile.
Among the shoppers early Thursday was Don Pate, who came from Stockton with his wife, Mary Lou, to look at the merchandise before making a few other stops on the Central Coast.
Another early shopper was Kendall Matous of Pebble Beach, who works for the Northern California Golf Association. She paid $200 for “a jacket for myself and a red polo for my father.”
What will they do next? Hey boys, we are all waiting for an encore.
The burglary wasn’t a burglary, the ransom note wasn’t a ransom note, and the $80 million art heist wasn’t an $80 million art heist at all, according to Monterey County Sheriff’s Cmdr. Mike Richards. Though the men who reported being the victims in the Sept. 25, 2009, burglary of their Pebble Beach rental home, A. Benjamin Amadio and Ralph Kennaugh, have not yet been charged with any crimes, they apparently fabricated the art theft that made headlines across the nation.
The men, who also complained of unfair treatment, inaction and discrimination by the sheriff’s office, have been” quiet in recent months.
“We haven’t heard from them directly for some time. I understand now they moved over to Santa Cruz County,” he said. “They were evicted from the Pebble Beach house.”
ewwww.
Earlier Wednesday, the woman described an encounter with Pollacci in 1995, when she lived across the street from his parents’ home in Pebble Beach.
Jane Doe 5 said she accepted an invitation to visit him as he cooked dinner at the house, a date that turned sour when she discovered he was masturbating as he gave her a shoulder massage.
She said she ran home, with Pollacci in pursuit, claiming they were “having a good time,” and she finally sent him away by threatening to call the police.
Pebble Beach mom has son’s back. Both no match for the victim, “who fought back, but with restraint”.
Lois Lintz, 64, was released on a citation following the Feb. 25 scuffle, while her son, 32-year-old Jared Miller, who lives with her in Pebble Beach, was taken to Monterey County Jail after causing hundreds of dollars in damage to the police department’s holding cell, according to Carmel Police Sgt. Paul Tomasi.
Family That Fights Together, Gets Hit Back And Goes To Jail Together
Ron Usrey, 42, Shawn Usrey, 38, Sila Lualemana, 46, all from Seaside, were taken into custody Friday night; deputies say one of the three men was “very intoxicated” inside the Lodge’s Tap Room and was asked to leave. According to a press statement, the suspect struck the security guard; while Monterey County Sheriff’s deputies tried to gain control of that suspect, the two others attempted to choke the security guard.
Used to be you could drive into Pebble and park on the polo grounds or brave the soggy lots to park, or reward the young capitalists that ran private parking lots in their parents’ driveways. These days they keep most of the spectators’ cars out of the forest and make you ride buses into the event.
The best bus ride looks to be the Cannery Row shuttle. $10 for rides from Cannery Row parking garages to and from Pebble. $7 to park the car in the garage right next to the bus stop.
Keep driving past the CSUMB/Fort Ord 12th Street exit by Kohls & Best Buy. Exit on Aquajito Road. Keep going after MPC, land in Monterey or Cannery Row. If you are staying in P.G. head over to Cannery Row. You will be closer to some welcome services when you get back from crawling the course.
Next is the same deal in Downtown Monterey. Park in the garages on Tyler street and ride to Pebble.
Bad deal is the Pacific Grove Chamber Of Commerce. $15 to board a bus at the Mvsevm. There is no parking near the stop, you have to compete with locals to park in their neighborhood. When you return, you will be in the ghost town that is Pacific Grove.
Dreadful is the Fort Ord CSUMB route. Sure, it’s the first sign you see coming into town and it an easy on/off the freeway. But it’s out in the middle of nowhere (Marina).
