Monthly Archives: January 2011

Deborah King Trial: Son Of Victim Will Testify

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PGMS J Woods Flowers

Jurors in the trial of a Monterey woman charged with murder in the vehicular death of a Pacific Grove father will hear a first-person account of the accident from the victim’s 15-year-old son.

The prosecutor and defense attorney agreed to let Jacob Woods, who is mildly autistic, testify by videotape to spare him the pain of attending the trial of Deborah King.

The road to that trial has veered five times since 2008, as psychiatrists evaluated King’s competency to assist in her own defense. In 2009, she spent nine months in a state mental hospital before a final evaluation deemed her ready for trial.

The road to the trial has veered? Is that appropriate for the story of an alleged DUI careening into a father & child?

Deborah King Trial: Son Of Victim Will Testify

Calling All Pacific Grove Cougars

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Our Mvsevm is looking to hook up with the cats

Betty White

The exhibition also will use cougar life-mounts and skeletons, research tools and wildlife photography to tell the story of how mountain lions and humans co-exist.

The museum is seeking mountain lion photos and stories from the community. If you have a story or photo to share, contact exhibitions curator Annie Holdren at holdren@pgmuseum.org.


Calling All Pacific Grove Cougars

Poor, Poor New Monterey Alarmed At DLI Expansion Plans

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Howard looks at increasing numbers of DLI students as a bad thing? In a part of town where newly built storefronts sit empty next to storefronts that have been empty for years.

French Glass, May 2009
French Glass

Another new empty building, January 2011

French Glass Gone

New Monterey is “the largest community in Monterey, and the most isolated,” said Howard Fosler, president of the New Monterey Neighborhood Association, as he opened a meeting Monday night at Hilltop Center to talk about issues facing the area.

The Presidio of Monterey sprawls between the old and new city, and with its gates closed since 2001 to public traffic, has increased the isolation of the neighborhood.

An increase in the student population will drive up rental costs in the area as military men and women seek off-base housing, Fosler said, and more students means more traffic.

Poor, Poor New Monterey Alarmed At DLI Expands

Holmans Jewelry Thieves Caught

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That pose on the right should be welcome in Monterey County Jail

Holmans Jewelry Heist

Police in Pacific Grove arrested two brothers from Corral de Tierra on Friday who are suspected of jewelry heists on Lighthouse Avenue.

Cmdr. John Miller said Zachary and Joseph Thomas, 24 and 23, were arrested at the Pacific Grove Police Department Friday afternoon and were later transferred to county jail for booking.

Miller said the brothers walked into Holman’s Antique Plaza on Monday. One asked to try on a gold necklace, and while the other distracted an employee, the first walked out of the building wearing the jewelry.

Pacific Grove police sent out an “alert flier” to local police agencies, and Seaside officers recognized the brothers from “previous contacts,” Miller said. An officer called the men’s parents, he said, because officers did not have phone numbers for either suspect. The parents contacted the brothers and persuaded them to turn themselves in, Miller said.

Holmans Jewelry Thieves Caught

Pollacci’s Next Rape Trials

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Seeking change of venue.

Pollacci Parking Sex Offenders

In the most recent charges against Pollacci, prosecutors allege he raped a woman identified as Jane Doe 1 in his father’s RV that had been parked on the far side of the Monterey Peninsula Airport, and also raped a woman known as Jane Doe 2 in the loft of his family’s liquor store, Ron’s Liquors, on Lighthouse Avenue in Pacific Grove.

The alleged rapes, which occurred in late 2008 happened as Pollacci was being investigated for raping another woman, Jane Doe 5, also at the liquor store. In March 2009 Pollacci was arrested and charged with assaulting Jane Doe 5. That’s when Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2 came forward.

Pollacci’s Next Rape Trials

Jewelry Thieves Hit Holmans

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The old distract the shop keeper trick

Holmans 2011.

“And then I was going to weigh this chain and give him a price and when I turned back around he was not there. And I just didn’t know where he had gone too,” Linda said.

Linda didn’t know because she was distracted by the thieves friend who was asking her questions. Police say the same two men pulled a similar stunt down the street at Wells Jewelry. They stole a gold necklace and a pair of earrings.


Jewelry Thieves Hit Holmans