Monthly Archives: October 2010

70 Mile Police Chase From David Avenue 7-11

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Cue the story about gangs visiting in P.G. “to find a place to get away from the hood”.

Hear-Old says spike strips were used, the Californian says they just ran out of gas.

Monterey police said that shortly after midnight, two suspects went into the 7-Eleven at 381 David Ave. and stole several 18-packs of beer.

When the clerk confronted the thieves outside the store, a third robber shot the clerk several times with a BB gun, police said. She suffered superficial wounds and declined medical treatment, said Monterey Deputy Police Chief Phil Penko.

Salinas residents Christopher Dean, 19, Ivan Haro, 18, and Apolo Abraham, 18, and Bryan Chavez, 18, of Marina, were arrested and booked at Monterey City Jail on charges of robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, burglary, conspiracy, felony evasion and gang enhancements.

70 Mile Police Chase From David Avenue 7-11

DUI Victim Becoming A Miracle

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Amazing recovery. Positive attitude helps.

This week, with the help of a trainer, this once competitive dancer is getting out of her wheelchair and walking. It’s a feat many thought was impossible.

“That’s the best I’ve walked in a long time,” says Chelsie Hill. “I actually started crying after. It gave me so much hope.”

It’s all thanks to Project Walk, a rehab facility in Carlsbad, where Chelsie has spent the last two weeks. There, she’s learning to retrain her body to use her legs again.

DUI Victim Becoming A Miracle

Would You Come To The Aid Of An Injured Golfer?

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Old Grumpy Golfers

To some an injured person is something to stop and tend to, to others it’s just another hazard.

While Hughes told the 911 responder where they were and what had happened, Muller tried to keep the injured player’s partners calm and prevent them from moving him. Golf links staff member Nick Watson helped direct the paramedics to the injured player.

The course was busy that day, and Hughes recalls that other groups tried to play around the injured golfer.

“Other people just played through like it was nothing,” he said.

Muller remembers the men that he and Hughes were paired with decided to leave them and keep on playing.

“Yeah, that was a bit shocking,” Muller said.

Would You Come To The Aid Of An Injured Golfer?

Seaside Street Gangs Prowling In P.G.

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While everyone watches coyotes or mountain lions, stupid gang members are stealing property from our cars…

Three suspected car burglars ditched their Chevy Blazer in the middle of a Pacific Grove street and ran from the officer who had been chasing them early Sunday morning, police found one of them hiding between two parked cars in Pacific Grove, the second walking on the recreation trail, and the third in his Seaside apartment, PGPD Cmdr. John Nyunt said Wednesday.

Nyunt said the suspects appear to be affiliated with the Norteno gang, due to a T-shirt one was wearing and a five-point star tattooed on another. The shirt, which Rodriguez was wearing inside out, bore the word, “Norteno,” and listed all the area codes in which the gang has a presence.

Seaside Street Gangs Prowling In P.G.

Texan’s Kinkade Galleries Closed

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Not even a mass market art gallery can sustain.

The former Consuelo’s turned into a gallery.

Building Of Light

when Larson took over, that all changed, according to Dow. He fired the gallery’s employees and “hasn’t answered a phone call, nor has he returned one since the day this deal went through. You CAN quote me on that!” she said.

In addition to the Ocean Avenue shop, the small space next to the Tuck Box on Dolores Street and the “national archive” on Lighthouse Avenue in Monterey were also shuttered, though Dow said Kinkade’s headquarters recently called and expressed interest in reopening the Ocean Avenue location.


Texan’s Kinkade Galleries Closed

Auction Company Settles

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And I was just about to see if I can pick up some painting in Pebble Beach at a good price.

A company that held several estate auctions in Pebble Beach and Pacific Grove over the last four years has been ordered to pay $140,000 for alleged auction fraud.

In May, the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office filed a civil complaint against American Wholesale Jewelry, Inc., and president Alon Varsha, doing business as Kingston Auctions, for deceptive marketing claims.

Auction Company Settles

P.G. Cops Responding To Car Ripoffs

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If you lock the doors, one burglar may move on. Or the may put a rock through the window to steal an iPod.

In an effort to catch burglars in the act, Pacific Grove police officers, using unmarked cars, recently staked out areas in the city where vehicle burglaries and thefts have occurred.

“We have been able to do some surveillance programs in direct response,” Miller said.

One of the stings netted the arrest of a Pacific Grove man who was going car to car and checking door handles, trying to find an unlocked vehicle, Miller said.

P.G. Cops Responding To Car Ripoffs

Carmel Does Not Want To Be Made Fun Of Over Pet Chickens

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Pro Chicken Mack

This coming from the town that bans ice cream cones.

At the Oct. 5 meeting, Yateman, a.k.a. “the chicken lady,” reiterated her desire to keep hens because they lay nutritious eggs, are quiet, produce fertilizer, eat bugs “and even in some cases, mice,” make good pets “and are very educational for children,” while having no negative consequences.

“I had two hens many years ago, with absolutely no problems,” she said, adding that The Pine Cone’s weekly police log often contains calls about barking and biting dogs, but “never anything about hens.”

So sympathetic was the audience to her plea, no one made the obvious counter-argument: There have been no complaints about hens because the town hardly has any, while dogs are everywhere.

Carmel Chamber of Commerce CEO Monta Potter said her organization works hard to market Carmel as a sophisticated destination for visitors, and while she did not take a particular position for or against chickens, she commented, “I would hope that we are not made fun of. I think it’s important that we continue to promote ourselves as a sophisticated city.”


Carmel Does Not Want To Be Made Fun Of Over Pet Chickens

Mayor Wants No Smoking In Public

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Monterey has an ordinance against smoking on the rec trail. Cuneo, Kampe and Cohen all opposed the action. Kampe said “It’s incredibly rare to encounter second-hand smoke in Pacific Grove.” Kampe has never walked past Juice & Java or Hazara’s I take it.

No Smoking Dogs

Are Pacific Grove’s smoking regulations strong enough?

Mayor Carmelita Garcia doesn’t think so. She proposed Wednesday that the city consider tightening rules about smoking in public places, particularly parks, beaches, recreation areas, outdoor dining areas and sidewalk tables in front of restaurants and coffeehouses.

The motion to ask staff to draw up an ordinance failed 3-3, with Cuneo, Kampe and Cohen opposed

P.G. Mayor Wants No Smoking In Public