Monthly Archives: August 2025

$400,000 Sale Of A Non Existing Porsche Leads To Lawsuit

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Porsche-911-ST

Picture from Internet, free. Not the car in news article.

 

A Pacific Grove man failed to turn over a high-end, custom-built Porsche he sold to a man who lives in Guatemala, according to a lawsuit filed in Monterey County Superior Court Aug. II, during Car Week on the Peninsula. Jose Moreno is suing Chris Darnell, owner of Exclusive Collection MRY.

“On or about Aug. 16, 2024, and by way Of his own independent research, Moreno learned the Porsche S/T never existed,” the complaint states.

In a separate complaint filed earlier this year, Darnell is being sued by Mercedes-Benz Financial Services to recover $42,404.83, the amount remaining on Darnell’s 60-month lease of a 2022 Mercedes EQS 450+. Mercedes is suing for breach of contract for Darnell ‘s failure to pay the lease.

$400,000 Sale Of A Non Existing Porsche Leads To Lawsuit

44% City Council Pay Raise To Be Decided By Voters

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Signatures easily collected.

Pay Raise Signatures

The council on Aug. 20 voted unanimously to repeal the raise it gave itself in May and to return Sept. 3 to discuss placing a measure on either the 2026 June primary or November general election ballots. The council ‘s decision follows a successful effort by Transparent Pacific Grove — which opposed the council pay increase without voter approval — to collect enough signatures to allow residents to decide on the matter

44% City Council Pay Raise To Be Decided By Voters

Trashy Boats Lead To Insurance Required For All

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There’s been some nasty boats parked there for years.

Break Water Cove

last week, a damaged vessel sank near the dock, requiring a multi-agency effort to clean up the mess and get the wreckage to shore. To protect itself and other owners from damage and liability, the City of Monterey is requiring proof of insurance for all boats in slips or attached to mooring balls to be provided to the harbormaster by September 1.

Trashy Boats Lead To Insurance Required For All

Newbie Come-Here Didn’t Think Much Of Plane Traffic

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Until now and wants to sue. She should move to P.G. where wind chimes can get you a $435 fine.

When Nancy Runyon bought her house in New Monterey in 1998

1998? Newbie.

She realized her house was now in the “instrument flight path,” where planes have to rely entirely on their instruments as they approach the runway when it’s socked in by clouds, which is often. She says planes “fill the sky” above her house on a regular basis as they’re coming out of the fog bank.

“I’ve lost a lot of sleep over this, because of plane noise, but also because of worry,” Runyon says. “I usually don’t go to bed until the last plane has landed.”

Over the past couple of years, Runyon and a group of New Monterey residents formed the Monterey Fly Safe Coalition to organize and exert pressure on the Monterey Peninsula Airport District board to mitigate the problem.

Newbie Come-Here Didn’t Think Much Of Plane Traffic

 

Perv Paul Nkoy Lumbi Worked At Several Rest Homes

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Paul Nkoy Lumbi, Jr

 

Certified nurse assistant Paul Nkoy Lumbi Jr., 60, was arrested for multiple felony crimes against patients of Forest Hill Manor, including lewd act on a dependent adult, forcible rape and rape of a person incapable of giving consent. California Attorney General Rob Bonta did not say when Lumbi stopped working at Forest Hill Manor, but he was most recently employed by Cypress Ridge Care Center on Skyline Drive in Monterey The facility’s administrator told the Pine Cone Lumbi Jr. no longer works there.

Perv Paul Nkoy Lumbi Worked At Several Rest Homes

P.G. City Attorney Quits

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Did he get a job description?

In a surprise announcement at Wednesday night’s Pacific Grove City Council meeting, city attorney Brian Pierik said he would step down after only three years in the role.
Pierik, 75, began working for P.G. in July 2022, after the council voted to retain the Los Angeles-based law firm he works for, Burke, Williams & Sorensen LLP. Another  attorney with the same firm attorney, Gregory Rubens, was hired as the assistant city attorney.

P.G. City Attorney Quits

Rest Home Hires Unqualified Caregivers

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From 2022 to 2023 before the care home was sold to “new owners”.

A civil complaint filed Aug. 19 by prosecutors contends that Sandeep and Anuradha Saini, who previously owned Del Monte Assisted Living on David Avenue, also allowed non-caregiver staff without background checks to perform duties that allowed them to interact with residents and did not have adequate training to meet residents’ medical and care needs.

Rest Home Hires Unqualified Caregivers

Pacific Grove Council Raises Halted

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The council directed staff to bring back an ordinance on Sep. 3 to formally repeal Ordinance No. 25-007, which raised council stipends from $420 to $966 per month and the mayor’s from $700 to $1,610. The May ordinance was automatically suspended after a referendum petition qualified in July.

Following the repeal, staff will later return with an agenda report outlining potential dates for a public vote on council pay. The measure could appear on the ballot in June or November 2026, or during a standalone special election.

And Councilman Paul Walkingstick turns it into a kooky DEI subject,

Councilman Paul Walkingstick noted that Pacific Grove recently voted to move to a by-district election system, and the city already struggles with gathering a diverse group of candidates to run, either from different classes or different neighborhoods

Pacific Grove Council Raises Halted

Squids Got Ties To Ojai

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Squid

Another day, another Weakly hit piece on Luke Coletti for having held ex–City Manager Ben Harvey accountable. Here’s what Squid (Pam Marino) won’t mention: multiple Ojai employees—many of them women—have filed complaints against Harvey for workplace harassment and discrimination.

The record is damning:
Three complaints already filed
A fourth complaint pending
All involve harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and other unlawful conduct
Instead of attacking oversight, maybe ask why Ben Harvey keeps generating complaints from Ojai city staff.

See for yourself:

Complaint #1
Complaint #2
Complaint #3

Squids Got Ties To Ojai

Carmel McLaren Vandal Is From Pacific Grove

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Drunk, stupid or envious?

Samuel Shaffer

Carmel police arrested Samuel P. Shaffer, 30, of Pacific Grove on Tuesday morning for vandalizing two McLarens.

“Everyone is asking ‘why,’ and I don’t know the reason why this happened, but I can tell you that his contact with the police department has been pretty minimal,”

The McLarens each have a different owner who was in Carmel for Car Week. The vehicles were parked near each other by the Pine Inn.

Carmel McLaren Vandal Is From Pacific Grove