Check it out. Almost blinding.
Monthly Archives: May 2006
Suspect In Olinger Slaying Arrested
Shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday, officers arrested Jacobo Ruelas, a suspect in the nearly nine-year-old slaying of Kristopher Olinger, a 17-year-old who was beaten and stabbed to death on the Pacific Grove Recreation Trail in 1997.
After a three-hour search near Bradley, a small town in south Monterey County, a SWAT team made up of sheriff’s deputies, six Pacific Grove police officers, California Highway Patrol and state parks’ officers arrested Ruelas, of Soledad, on a $3 million arrest warrant issued Friday in connection with the murder.
Olinger Murder Suspect Named
After eight and a half years of investigating, Pacific Grove police have issued an arrest warrant for a Soledad man for the murder of Kristopher Olinger, a 17-year-old who was stabbed and beaten to death along the Recreation Trail in Pacific Grove.
Police said a “hit” in a new palm-print identification database led them to Jacobo Ruelas, 27, who was named as a “key suspect” in the case Friday. After eluding arrest earlier this week, Ruelas is wanted on a $3 million warrant.
Did Something Interesting Happen Here?
Spotted this sign, pimping the town to the trail walkers, surrey drivers and motorists that are not watching the road:
Historic? Did Poncho Villa sleep here? Minds sprung into action and have come up with a few alternates:
Truth in advertising.
The land barons’ sign.
Imported phony charm.
Goes with the ‘charm’.
Local wildlife.
Emergency Preparedness, part 1.
Emergency Preparedness, part 2.
Cartoon characters ala amusement parks.
Tidepool Police Need A Life
Letter from the editor – the Hear-old
Am I the only one getting tired of the incessant whining by the Pacific Grove Tidepool Coalition?
The coalition makes it seem like the Monterey Bay Aquarium and Hopkins Marine Station are self-serving bullies bent on turning the P.G. coastline into a watery desert. In fact, no two institutions have done more to promote the stewardship of our oceans in general and our local intertidal eco-system in particular.
If the coalition needs a tide pool project, perhaps it should look into the effects of the fertilizer and herbicide runoff from the P.G. golf course after each rain.
Nope, I am also tired of it. I imagine the tidepool nazis want to fence off the shoreline and not let anyone in from the land or sea. Soon the beaches will be littered with flotsam, stinky and unused.
DirectTV Techs: Policy Makes Lying Part Of Job
Feel the Joy
ORLANDO, Fla. — Nearly 40 DirectTV installers were fired this week after giving on-camera interviews to Local 6 News about a company policy they say forced them to lie to Florida customers.
“Tell the customer whatever you have to tell them,” technician Frank Martinez said. “Tell them if these phone lines are not connected, the receiver will blow up.”
“You’ve been told to tell them that?” Alvarez asked.
“We’ve been told to say that,” Martinez said. “(And say) whatever it takes to get that phone line in the receiver.”
The report uncovered that the apparent lie could cost customers big money.
The fee to have a phone line installed could be as high at $52 per room. A wireless phone jack will cost another $50.