Monthly Archives: March 2009

Pollacci’s Prior Convictions

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Sexual battery. Sees judge today.

Tom Pollacci

The affidavits list Pollacci’s prior convictions, which include battery in 1985, loitering on private property in 1990 and the two counts of sexual battery in 1993.

That case involved alleged separate rapes of two women, one of whom said she was possibly drugged and awoke to find Pollacci assaulting her.

The woman said Pollacci had brought her home from a first date at Rocky Point Restaurant. She was angry that he’d consumed a considerable amount of alcohol and suggested that he should go home, but he walked her into her apartment.

She told police she got a glass of water and went to her bedroom to change. When she came out she drank some of the water. She awoke the next morning thinking she was having a dream, only to realize it was real.

The second case involved a woman who said Pollacci sexually assaulted her in the parking lot of the Highlands Inn after the two had lunch, also on their first date.

Pollacci’s Prior Convictions

Senator Considering Law That Would Bar Sex Offenders From Seeing Your Personal Information

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Write to the Senator and express your support! Abel Maldonado email

State Senator Abel Maldonado said he’ll consider proposing a bill that would prevent registered sex offenders from working in liquor stores and other businesses where they can check IDs and have access to customers’ personal information.

“Allowing registered sex offenders to view a person’s driver’s license, thereby allowing them to obtain important contact information like the person’s address, is extremely dangerous,” Maldonado said.

Maldonado made the comments to The Pine Cone after learning that registered sex offender and liquor store worker Thomas Pollacci, 49, was charged with three felony counts of rape stemming from an April 2008 incident. Pollacci’s family owns Ron’s Liquors in Pacific Grove, and he has worked there for years.

From the Internet in 2004 . .

Pollacci Megans Law Sex Offender

Senator Considering Law That Would Bar Sex Offenders From Seeing Your Personal Information

P.G. Woman Comes To The Rescue Of Sick Coyote

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Wile E Coyote Help

“I haven’t been able to get help,” said Jill Durward, a 69-year-old retiree who lives near Asilomar. “The last time I saw the coyote was five days ago, and it’s really sick, you can tell. I guess a lot of people don’t love coyotes.”

Durward said the animal, which is gray with patches of fur missing, surprised her near her home on Crocker Avenue. She had seen the animal before and surmised it may have been in the area of Sunset Drive, possibly crossing the road in an attempt to scrounge dead fish on the beach.

“I tried to give it its space,” she said.

She said repeated calls to local wildlife officials went unanswered. She went door-to-door asking people to help her find the animal and get it treatment. She said she received an indifferent response.

“Some people told me, ‘If the animal is sick, it should just be left to die,'” she said. “But that isn’t fair. The coyote has a right to live, just like we do. It’s like a sick dog, and it needs help. People just don’t seem to care if an animal is suffering.”

P.G. Woman Comes To The Rescue Of Sick Coyote

Oh Those Wharf Chowderheads Part III

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Remind me to never call Richard Rosen for services . .

Judge Tom Wills ruled Thursday that Mercurio’s expectations of privacy did not extend to the ocean floor and that the diver who found the pagers was working for Mercurio’s competitor, Chris Shake, not the police.

Mercurio is charged with one count of petty theft for allegedly tossing Shake’s seating pagers into the bay after luring in customers who were waiting on the wharf for tables in Shake’s restaurant, Old Fisherman’s Grotto.

Mercurio’s attorney, Richard Rosen, argued that Shake had the diver search beneath Domenico’s to pursue a criminal prosecution, violating Mercurio’s Fourth Amendment rights against unlawful search and seizure.

After two days of hearings on the matter, Wills said Thursday that only one of the dives — a sting operation that turned up no pager — involved the police. And he said Mercurio’s lease made it clear the city had every right to enter the water below the wharf for any reason.

Oh Those Wharf Chowderheads Part III

Where DID All The Pine Cones Go?

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Issue that broke the news about Tom Pollacci is flying off the racks. In bundles of 100.Squirrel Pine Cone

Someone driving a blue pickup truck was spotted at numerous locations around Carmel taking large stacks of Pine Cones. Under California law, it is a misdemeanor to take multiple copies of a free newspaper for the purpose of stopping someone from reading it.

One employee, who didn’t want to be identified, said she confronted a man who appeared to be in his 30s, who took a bundle at a Carmel Rancho business.

“I said, ‘You can’t take all of those,’” the clerk said, “and he really didn’t turn around. I said, ‘Excuse me, you can’t take all those; you can only have one.’ I said, ‘Why do you want all of them?’ And he said, ‘Just to have them.’”

Was all over the Peninsula, not just P.G.

Where DID All The Pine Cones Go?

Aint No Money In Our Wallet, Broke Again Is What We Call It*

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Red House Sidewalk

Pay Rent for the sidewalks?

“We’ll have about a 1.3 million dollar shortfall”, said Pacific Grove Budget Manager Jim Beckenberg.

That makes up approximately ten percent of the City’s annual budget and now everything is on the table, meaning City Hall could decrease the hours that it stays open, furloughs will also be considered as well as layoffs.

“We have to look at recreating services, library services, anything where we’re charging a fee for a service to make sure that we collect as much as we can so that general tax dollars can be saved for basic services like police and fire” said Beckenberg.

Small offering: $25 a month per square yard of sidewalk used by restaurants and sidewalk spam signs.

Bigger offerings: The Asilomar Flamingo hotel/casino.

*Hayes Carl

Aint No Money In Our Wallet, Broke Again Is What We Call It*

Chamber Of Commerce Gives “Best Motel” Award

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Tripadvisor reviews for Pacific Gardens Inn  say “dog friendly – pack your earplugs”.

“I wanted to hit the boards running,” he explained. “So I decided and it was agreed that I could first spend time at the lodge as an employee, learning the business on-site from the ground up. I did this undercover. None of the 13 staffers there knew that I was the future owner. For eight months I did just about everything, manned the front desk, served breakfast, swept floors and cleaned up, whatever.”

When Boerner took possession of the inn, the facility was ranked No. 13 in customer service by Tripadvisor.com, a hospitality Web site. Today, Pacific Gardens Inn has achieved a No. 1 ranking.

Chamber Of Commerce Gives “Best Motel” Award