Informants led Pacific Grove police to the 19-year-old Seaside man they suspect of robbing the pharmacy at Safeway and fleeing with 800 Oxycontin pills two weeks ago, and to another male they believe was involved in the crime. Cmdr. John Nyunt reported officers took Johnny Rodriguez into custody after serving a search warrant on his home last Thursday morning, and they had 20-year-old Seaside resident Cameron Ferguson arrested on the tarmac at San Jose Airport later that day.
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Damn the parasites, full speed ahead.
“We paid a lot of money for this Triathlon and I’ve trained for almost a year now so I’m just going to go for it,” said Triathlon Swimmer, Christal Alderton.
“Every year we always have something going on with the water. It’s a still time of year. But because of contact with the county we just felt like let’s do it! And everyone’s been swimming and enjoying the ocean and we haven’t had any ill effects,” said Betsy Davis Co-Owner Tri-California
Now the warning signs have the local spin job saying the levels are down next to them.
The Weakly has a story about the efforts to import some trees for this coming winter’s butterfly migration.
Heavy pruning of the sanctuary’s eucalyptus trees a year ago may have been responsible for the estimated 96 percent drop in the monarch population there last overwintering season – although, according to butterfly experts, the population simultaneously fell about 90 percent throughout the Central Coast.
Funny is the comment from M. Butterflies:
Monarch Butterflies are known to be very conservative Republicans who believe in the rule of law, individualism, and private property. Most Monarch’s have changed their migration patterns to avoid over-taxed nanny states like California.
This attempt to set up overpriced Government subsidized housing is going to be considered a serious insult to a vast majority of Monarch’s, who are all ready counter-protesting Monterey Counties boycott of Arizona.
Though they bow down to liquor stores.
Residential Care Facilities, eh? Maybe Canturbury Woods can use the homes on Spazier to grow pot now that people are not allowed to live there.
The ordinance, prepared at the council’s direction by City Attorney David Laredo, prohibits “growing, selling, distributing or operating marijuana dispensaries” medical or otherwise.
There are exclusions, Laredo said, for health care, residential care or hospice facilities to provide marijuana to patients who hold doctors’ prescriptions for cannabis, and residents can grow plants “in strict compliance with the (state) compassionate use act.”
“It seemed like the endless project,” Cindy Walter said of the undertaking she and her husband, Ted, took on four years ago.
Their lives have changed in that time, Walter said — she had two surgeries and has another scheduled — and they decided their Passionfish restaurant in Pacific Grove is all they want to handle now. They have owned it for 13 years.
Walter said she and her husband invested time, emotion and thousands of dollars in the Old Bath House project. As it proceeded, “there were more and more expenses,” she said.
I’m telling ya, this would be easy:
Richard Rosen, LOL. Defender of David Stamm and Chowdergate lawyer.
Richard Rosen and Jeanine Strong say they will not only prove the nonprofit co-op is operating legally, but will go after the “real violators” — local governments and law enforcement agencies that have refused to implement the medicinal marijuana law.
In the 14 years since the Compassionate Care Act legalized medicinal marijuana in the state, said Rosen, not one medical marijuana facility has been authorized in the county.
“While the rest of the state is following the law, Monterey County is and has been consistently flaunting the law,” he said. “It’s a terrible and dangerous policy because when government ignores the law, it encourages everyone to ignore the law.”
The rest of the state is realizing that it’s about money and not compassion. They are closing down dispensaries.
The city of Los Angeles has warned 439 medical marijuana dispensaries that they must shut their doors by June 7. City prosecutors began notifying dispensary operators the first week of May, the first step in what could be a lengthy and expensive legal battle to regain control over pot sales.
N. Individual gets into a lot of trouble this month. Monterey P.D. stopped revealing names of those arrested in their online police log.
8/1/10 An individual was arrested for public intoxication and resisting arrest at David and Belden.
8/1/10 MPD investigates suspicious circumstances at Prescott and Cannery Row.
8/1/10 MPD investigates suspicious circumstances in the 100 block of Prescott.
8/1/10 MPD documents a civil dispute in the 700 block of Newton.
8/1/10 MPD documents lost property in the 500 block of Cannery Row.
8/1/10 MPD documents lost property in the 500 block of Cannery Row.
8/2/10 An individual was arrested for public intoxication at McAbee Beach.
8/2/10 A hit and run in the 200 block of Drake.
8/3/10 MPD towed a vehicle from the 800 block of Filmore.
8/3/10 A non injury accident at Foam and Cannery Row.
8/3/10 MPD towed a vehicle from the 800 block of Lyndon.
8/3/10 MPD towed a vehicle from the 200 block of Hawthorn.
8/3/10 MPD towed a vehicle from the 2000 block of Irving.
8/3/10 MPD towed a vehicle from the Lower Presidio.
8/3/10 An individual was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon in the 600 block of Wave.
8/4/10 An individual was arrested for DUI at Hawthorne and Dickman.
8/4/10 An individual was arrested of an outstanding warrant in the 200 block of Laine
8/5/10 A victim reports theft from the 900 block of Belden.
8/5/10 MPD documents graffiti in the 200 block of Lighthouse.
8/5/10 An individual was arrested for an outstanding warrant at Hoffman and Lighthouse.
8/5/10 An injury accident at Foam and Irving.
8/5/10 An individual was arrested for outstanding warrants in the 400 block of Spencer.
8/5/10 An individual was arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia in the 400 block of Spencer.
8/6/10 A victim reports suspicious circumstances in the 500 block of Lighthouse.
8/7/10 An individual was arrested for public intoxication in the 700 block of Lighthouse Ave.
8/8/10 MPD towed a vehicle from the 600 block of Cannery Row.
8/8/10 MPD investigates a verbal domestic that occurred in the 400 block Cannery Row
8/9/10 Found property at San Carlos Beach.
8/9/10 A victim reports a hit and run accident at Prescott and Wave.
8/9/10 An individual was arrested for domestic violence in the 700 block of Spencer St.
8/9/10 A suspicious circumstance in the 200 block of Spencer.
8/9/10 A victim reports burglary in the 700 block of Belden.
8/9/10 A victim reports a burglary in the 700 block of Belden.
8/10/10 MPD investigated a verbal domestic dispute in the 700 block Oak St.
8/10/10 A victim reports burglary in the 200 block of Cannery Row.
8/11/10 A victim reports a hit and run traffic collision in the 600 block of Lighthouse Avenue.
8/11/10 Lost property in the 700 block of Cannery Row.
8/11/10 An individual was arrested for an outstanding warrant at McAbee Beach.
8/11/10 MPD towed a vehicle from Reeside and Foam.
8/11/10 An individual was arrested for public intoxication on McAbee Beach.
8/11/10 An individual was arrested for public intoxication at McAbee Beach.
8/12/10 A civil dispute in the 800 block of Hawthorne.
8/12/10 A victim reports theft in the 800 block of Hawthorne.
8/12/10 An individual was arrested for public intoxication at David and Hawthorne.
8/13/10 A non injury accident at Cannery Row and Prescott.
8/13/10 A victim reports theft in the 300 block of Drake.
8/13/10 A victim reports annoying phone calls in the1100 block of Mcclellan.
8/14/10 Restraining order service in the 700 block of Lighthouse.
8/14/10 Found property on Cannery Row.
8/14/10 Civil dispute in the 300 block of lighthouse.
8/14/10 A victim reports theft at San Carlos Beach
8/14/10 An individualL was arrested for public intoxication David and Lighthouse.
8/15/10 An individual was arrested for Public Intoxication at the corner of Prescott and Wave.
8/15/10 A victim reports theft at the Recreation Trail and Prescott.
8/15/10 MPD towed a vehicle from the 200 block of Laine St.
8/15/10 An individual was arrested for public intoxication on Prescott and the Rec Trail.
8/16/10 A victim reports vandalism at the Coast Guard Pier.
8/16/10 A vehicle injury accident at Lighthouse at Dickman.
8/16/10 A verbal domestic dispute in the 800 block of Taylor.
8/16/10 Two individuals were arrested for public intoxication at Bruce Ariss Way and Rec Trail.
8/17/10 Found property in the 400 block of Cannery Row.
8/17/10 An individual was arrested for public intoxication at Lighthouse and Reeside.
8/17/10 A victim reports theft in the 900 block of Lighthouse.
8/18/10 An individual was arrested for an outstanding misdemeanor warrant in the 23000 block Holman Highway.
8/18/10 MPD towed a vehicle from the 600 block of Laine.
8/18/10 MPD documents graffiti in the 500 block of Lighthouse.
8/18/10 MPD documents graffiti in the 600 block of Lighthouse.
8/18/10 A non-injury accident at Private Bolio/ Lighthouse Ave.
8/18/10 MPD documents vandalism in the 700 block of Cannery Row.
8/19/10 An individual was arrested for public intoxication at Lighthouse Ave/ Dickman Ave.
8/19/10 MPD investigates theft in the 300 block of David Ave.
8/19/10 An individual was arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia in the 400 block of Lighthouse.
8/20/10 A victim reports theft from a vehicle in the 1500 block of David Ave.
8/20/10 A victim reports vehicle vandalism in the 400 block of Cannery Row.
8/20/10 MPD investigates a brandishing in the 200 block of Hawthorne Ave.
8/21/10 MPD documented a domestic dispute in the 400 block of Cannery Row.
8/21/10 Suspicious circumstances in the 600 block of Oak.
8/21/10 A victim reports vehicle burglary in the 700 block of Archer.
8/21/10 An individual was arrested for public intoxication in the 700 block of Taylor.
8/22/10 A victim reports theft from the 800 block of Filmore.
8/22/10 A victim reports theft on Foam St.
8/23/10 An individual was arrested for DUI at Central and First.
8/23/10 MPD documents found property in the 300 block of Laine.
8/23/10 Welfare check in the 700 block of Taylor.
8/24/10 A non-injury accident at Lighthouse and Hoffman.
8/25/10 A victim reports theft from the 900 block of Lighthouse.
8/26/10 A victim reports theft in the 500 block of Wave St.
8/26/10 A victim reports theft in the 400 block of Cannery Row.
8/26/10 An individual was arrested for public intoxication in the 600 block of Cannery Row.
8/27/10 An individual was arrested for being under the influence of drugs in the 500 block of Irving.
8/28/10 An individual was arrested for domestic battery in the 600 block of Wave St.
8/28/10 A victim reports a vehicle theft in the 700 block of Wave.
8/28/10 A peace disturbance in the 700 block of Jessie St.
8/28/10 A victim reports theft in the700 block of Spencer.
8/28/10 A victim reports theft in the 600 block of Lighthouse.
8/28/10 A non injury accident in the 600 block of Lighthouse.
8/28/10 An individual was arrested for public intoxication in the 200 block of Cannery Row.
8/29/10 A victim reports theft in the 600 block of Cannery Row.
8/29/10 MPD documents a vehicle fire in the 600 block of Lighthouse.
8/29/10 A victim reports a vehicle burglary in the 400 block of Hawthorne.
8/30/10 A victim reports a vehicle theft in the 500 block of Belden.
8/30/10 A victim reports theft in the 700 block of Cannery Row.
8/30/10 A victim reports theft in the 200 block of Laine St.
8/31/10 A victim reports vandalism in the 700 block of Lighthouse.
8/31/10 A victim reports vandalism in the 300 block of Lighthouse.
8/31/10 A victim reports theft in the 600 block of Hawthorne.
Keeping us all safe from encroaching Episcopalians, good job!
A Superior Court judge has upheld Pacific Grove’s right to pursue a cross-complaint in an ongoing legal battle over expansion of a retirement home into a neighborhood.
After a January hearing, city-appointed hearing officer David Spradling found that Canterbury Woods committed four violations of city zoning laws by having dwellings outside the retirement-home campus as additional client units and providing them the same meals and housekeeping services.
He said Canterbury Woods violated the area’s single-family residential zoning by introducing a commercial use in the neighborhood when it expanded beyond the main retirement complex. But he didn’t find the retirement home in violation of its use permit.
Notice that the signs are only in English?
“They were everywhere the last time we came, but we didn’t see them this time, probably because we didn’t see them in the same places as last time,” Carey said, adding that his family took the warnings seriously.
“But we don’t go all the way into the water. Just to about here,” he added, motioning to his lower leg.
Posted at area beaches by Monterey County Environmental Health staff when beachwater bacteria levels exceed state standards, the 8-inch-by-11-inch signs reading “Warning! Ocean water contact may cause illness” hung at three entrances to the beach on Saturday.
Story reached the L.A. Times
Monarch fans are pitching in to bring more trees to the the butterfly trees. Send your donation to the Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce, marked “Monarch Habitat Trees.” PO BOX 167, Pacific Grove 93950, 584 Central Avenue, Pacific Grove, CA 93950
No trees, no butterflies. Guess this will have to do:
At a City Council meeting last week, Mayor Carmelita Garcia apologized for the city’s mismanagement of the tree cutting, calling it “a horrible mistake.” In the audience, people who had come to hear about emergency sanctuary repair wore toy butterfly antennae that bobbed up and down as the mayor spoke.
With the first monarchs due in about a month, volunteers have been scrambling for potted trees that can serve as makeshift butterfly shelter throughout the 2 1/2-acre sanctuary. “We’re hoping and praying,” said Moe Ammar, president of the Chamber of Commerce that serves the picturesque, sometimes fogbound town of Victorian homes.
“People who follow the monarchs come from all over the world,” Ammar said. “When we get calls asking if the butterflies have arrived, we have to be honest.”