Acquitted of 2nd degree murder though. Hope she gets life.
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A jury has found Deborah King, age 54, of Monterey, guilty of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. Judge Russell Scott subsequently found that King has suffered numerous prior driving under the influence convictions which would require her sentence to be 15 years to life in prison.
Assistant City Manager Fred Cohn said the city filed notice Tuesday requesting the court ask MyCaregiver “to explain why it should not be held in contempt.”
Friday’s search, he said, turned up marijuana and documents indicating marijuana transactions were taking place at the co-op at 554 Lighthouse Ave.
Attorney Richard Rosen, who represents MyCaregiver co-founder Jhonrico Carr-Nshimba, said the city brought the contempt action “based on small technicalities about zoning and business licenses. It is completely ignoring the big issue, which is why is it legal everywhere else in California except Monterey?”
Police said the two were approached shortly before 6 p.m. as they sat in the patio of Peter B’s restaurant, 1 Portola Plaza, by a man who threatened them with a knife and demanded their wallets, then ran.
The robber was described as a black man, aged 30-40, 5feet, 10 inches to 6 feet, about 200 pounds, with stubble on his face and wearing a black beanie hat, black jacket and dark trousers.
C-Side . .
Jonalyn Doniego, 26, of Seaside was arrested by Pacific Grove police about 11:50 p.m. at her Sonoma Street home, and booked into county jail on two counts of burglary and theft from a dependent adult.
Police said they conducted a lengthy investigation with the help of a private investigator of the suspected theft of jewelry, cash and credit card information from the woman at the Pacific Grove senior community.
Canterbury Woods Employee Charged With Stealing From Resident
Sometimes it seems that the “medicine” is used primarily to treat the effects from the lack of “medicine”.
On Friday night, a woman was spotted going inside MyCaregiver and admits this isn’t her first time.
“I do have a medical marijuana card,” says client. “I probably go here once every week.”
The woman didn’t want Central Coast News to use her name, but said for the past year, she bought medical marijuana at the dispensary to treat anxiety and depression.
Fred Cohn gets his man.
Cohn said Carr-Nshimba and at least one other MyCaregiver employee were on the premises at 554 Lighthouse Ave. when city code compliance coordinator David Wright and a police escort arrived, but refused to allow entry. After police forced their way inside, it took about an hour to search the premises, according to Cohn. There were no arrests.
The city sued MyCaregiver and Carr-Nshimba in February 2010, arguing that the operation violated the city’s zoning laws because they do not specifically accommodate medical marijuana facilities.
Judge Robert O’Farrell granted a temporary injunction against the operation last year, agreeing with the city that Carr-Nshimba had not been forthright on his business application by describing it as a “health care cooperative,” and said he would be distributing “herbal remedies.”
An attorney for former Pacific Grove businessman Thomas Pollacci, 50, filed a motion to dismiss one of the rape charges, but a judge denied the motion Thursday afternoon.
Pollacci was sentenced to eight years in prison in June after a jury convicted him of raping a woman inside a loft above Ron’s Liquors in Pacific Grove.
Judge says no.
Judge Timothy Roberts told Jacobo Ruelas on Thursday he could not sufficiently prepare for a trial that has been rescheduled three times in three years and is now slated to begin April 4.
In addition to work already completed by his own attorneys, the judge said, there are 9,000 pages of reports that would have to be redacted to remove identifying information regarding confidential witnesses.
Ruelas, 31, is charged with murder during the commission of a robbery and carjacking in connection with the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Kristopher Olinger. A jogger found the Monterey High School student in a turnout above the Pacific Grove Recreation Trail on the morning of Sept. 19, 1997. He had been stabbed 24 times.
Wonder if he checks IDs in P.G.?
Marina police arrested Pacific Grove resident Benny Torres after he reportedly raped a woman somewhere in the 300 block of Reservation Road. Lt. Rick Janicki would not reveal any details of the case, other than to say the woman knew Torres and reported the rape at around 11:15 a.m. Officers’ investigation led them to Pacific Grove, where, with the help of colleagues from PGPD, they took Torres into custody.
Would the landlord at 17 Mile Drive Village steal a gun?
A Smith & Wesson .38-caliber Chief’s Special discovered in the SUV of a convicted felon arrested in San Jose last month for a suspected DUI crash had been stolen from a Pacific Grove man almost a half-century ago, according to police.
“He purchased the handgun in Southern California in 1963 after he had just gotten out of the Marine Corps, and he was living in Pacific Grove, renting a house near the old trailer park on 17 Mile Drive, in 1964,” he said. The gun was stolen, and he suspected the landlord.