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Seven Years In Prison For Arsonist

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Prison will offer perhaps a better opportunity for odd tattoos for the man.

Nathan Augustine, 28, pleaded guilty to two counts of arson for firebombing Creative Visions tattoo parlor in Monterey on July 13 and Latitudes Restaurant in Pacific Grove two days later. He used Molotov cocktails in both incidents.

Margaret Perotti, owner of Creative Visions, asked Judge Russell Scott to consider imposing a term of 11 years on Augustine, who became incensed when her business declined to apply a tattoo of President Barack Obama’s face under crosshairs on his chest.

Seven Years In Prison For Arsonist

Pollacci Rape Trial: Hypnosis Of Victim

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Should get to hypnotize Tom Pollacci and see what spews from his mouth..

The woman admitted she does not remember the details of having intercourse with Pollacci, but knows she was at the liquor store and something bad happened at the Pacific Grove liquor store owned by Pollacci’s family.

She said she’s had three visions of the attack and in one of them Pollacci laughed and asked if she had ever experienced anything like that before. The trial is expected to continue on Wednesday.

Pollacci Rape Trial: Hypnosis Of Victim

Pollacci Rape Trial: Who’s “Davey”?

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Victim #1 tells story of kidnap & rape when she was 16 and Pollacci was 20.

Identified in court as “Jane Doe 1,” the 45-year-old woman testified that “Tommy” Pollacci and a man later identified as “Davey” showed up at her home while she was getting ready for school one morning 30 years ago. When she opened the door in her bathrobe, she said, they grabbed her, threw her in Pollacci’s car and took her against her will to a concealed spot along Carmel River.

While Davey held her down, she said, Pollacci raped her near the river’s edge.

Pollacci Rape Trial: Who’s “Davey”?

Pollacci Rape Trail: Putting Past Victims On The Stand?

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Talk about being scared and uncomfortable. Give them the strength to overcome the fear.

Investigator Adam Sepagan said the woman felt Pollacci’s defense attorney made her out to be a “whore” and that the district attorney failed to come to her defense. Pollacci pleaded guilty to sexual battery in the case.

Prosecutor Michael Breeden told Judge Russell Scott this morning that the woman had the right to refuse testimony under the Sexual Assault Victim’s Bill of Rights. He wants to present the current jury with a transcript of her testimony from 1992.

Pollacci Rape Trail: Putting Past Victims On The Stand?

Good Old Rainy Days

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Moe, what happened to the Benz?

Chamber of Commerce president Moe Ammar, mounted in an electric car, rallied his troops under lowering clouds and the threat of high winds and rain that had already driven away a block’s worth of craft vendors’ booths on Lighthouse Avenue.

Most craft vendors reacted to a memo sent by Ammar Saturday that the county Office of Emergency Services predicted heavy rains and winds of 40 mph to 50 mph beginning at 5a.m. Sunday by folding their tents and stealing away in the night.

By 10 a.m., no storm had materialized.

God Rained Out

By noon, it was pouring.

Good Old Rainy Days

James Kent Barbee Pleads Guilty

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Faces 20 years. Don’t go imitating the military.

James Kent Barbee, 60, of Pacific Grove pleaded guilty to one felony count of mail fraud and a misdemeanor count of unlawfully wearing a military uniform, according to the United States Attorney’s Office.

Barbee admitted he set up the Liberty Spirit Farm Foundation in Missouri and later moved it to the Santa Ynez Valley when he appeared before a federal judge. Barbee used the foundation to solicit donations from people who were told their money would be used to help veterans suffering from combat-related maladies, such as post-traumatic stress disorder syndrome.

Instead of using donations to help veterans, Barbee used significant amounts of the money for personal expenses.

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James Kent Barbee Pleads Guilty

Good Old Days 2010 – Wet, Cold, Windy

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God Rainy Days

Sunday rain closed down most of the ‘days by noon. Saturday was cold. Parade was so-so. Was better in the real good old days . .

It started with a group of women getting together in downtown Pacific Grove to exchange recipes over tea and cookies.

Within a few years, local merchants caught on that the annual gathering could be a good thing for the community, and they began setting up booths and organizing events. Pacific Grove’s spring festival continued to grow until, 53 years later, Good Old Days is not only the city’s biggest event, but the largest vending event in Monterey County.

Good Old Days 2010 – Wet, Cold, Windy

Pollacci Rape Trial: Rape In Parking Lot Was “Good Sex”

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Friday afternoon, a retired bail bondsmen said Pollacci’s arrest for the 1992 attack on Jane Doe4 prompted a shocking confession in the basement at the Monterey Courthouse.

Robert Stevenson said he met in the snack bar with a man he’d bailed out of jail and the man’s attorney, the late Bill Bryan. The attorney told his client not to discuss his case with anyone and left. The bondsman said Pollacci then began bragging about how he had raped a girl in broad daylight in a parking lot and how it was “good sex.”

“He was like a little boy that was happy or having a birthday party, talking about it,” Stevenson said. “He was weird.”

Pollacci Rape Trial: Rape In Parking Lot Was “Good Sex”

Deborah King Offers 200 Gs To Settle With Fatherless Family

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Deborah King
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But a PGUSD attorney filed a motion opposing the settlement offer contending it “would be grossly disproportionate” since King “bears all (or nearly all) liability” for the crash, court records say. “Ms. King is settling a multi-million lawsuit for $200,000, which bears no relationship to her potential liability,” according the motion filed by PGUSD attorney David W. Balch.

Deborah King Offers 200 Gs To Settle With Fatherless Family

Pollacci Rape Trial: Only Convicted Of Sexual Battery

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But arrested for ?

Pollacci’s response to the woman’s grievous injuries was “a total breech of responsibility and judgment,” Liu said, but he did not commit rape in April 2008 or in the past.

The attorney noted Pollacci was convicted only of sexual battery in one of the past cases and said there was no corroboration of allegations by the other women. One of them, he said, was “motivated by the media.”

Breeden said that woman will testify she was kidnapped and raped by Pollacci when she was a high school student in the early 1980s. At a time when people believed “good girls don’t get raped,” she did not report the assault. After reading about Pollacci’s arrest in 2009, he said, she contacted a local news reporter who referred her to the District Attorney’s Office.

Pollacci Rape Trial: Only Convicted Of Sexual Battery