Researcher For Pollacci Rape Case Says He Can’t Get A Fair Trial

Like that comment “nothing that said Mr. Pollacci was a nice fella”. Mario commented here on April 15 the same blog noted in an article on April 22.

Geringer said Pollacci’s potential jury pool had been poisoned by extensive media coverage and word of mouth. She initially characterized much of the coverage as “unfair,” but later said she defined that as reporting that included negative information about Pollacci.

“I found nothing that said Mr. Pollacci was a nice fella or a part of the community,” she said.

Breeden noted that it took only three days to seat a jury in Pollacci’s last trial and said if Geringer’s opinions are true, it would be apparent as soon as jury selection begins June 13. State law suggests that judges make an effort to find a local jury before changing venue. The last time a case was moved out of Monterey County was in the early 1980s.

Researcher For Pollacci Rape Case Says He Can’t Get A Fair Trial

Jason Wright Child Pornography Update

He’s out on bail..

After a months-long investigation, last Thursday, federal agents recovered several thousand child porn pictures and hundreds of videos on his work computer, that he originally deleted.

He works as an agent at Farmers Insurance on Lighthouse Avenue in Pacific Grove. His family owns that business. Also, at his home on Park Street, agents found up to 40 sex toys in a shed in his backyard.

Jason Wright Child Pornography Update

Sunny Nguyen To Stand Trial For P.G. Murder

Suspect had no pulse and was revived.

Too bad

He went to one bedroom and found it untouched. Then he tried to open a second bedroom’s door. It was blocked. He forced it open and saw a large television had been pushed against it. Inside was mayhem.

Nguyen’s body was draped facedown over the television.

Salazar’s body was on the other side of the room. Both bodies were in pools of blood and Haas could detect pulses in neither. Paramedics revived Nguyen, who was taken to San Jose Regional Medical Center.

Sunny Nguyen To Stand Trial For P.G. Murder

DLI Teacher Accused Of Domestic Violence Denies All Accusations

Then says he is bipolar. Great article.

Atef Samir Gergawy, 38, was taken into custody by Pacific Grove police officers April 29 on allegations he tried to rape his wife — whom police refer to as Jane Doe — and injured his son earlier in April.
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“I never did that,” he said.
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“That never happened,” said Gergawy.
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“I never did that,”
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..”How can I hit my kids?”
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the teacher said he never intentionally hit anyone
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Gergawy also said he is bipolar

DLI Teacher Accused Of Domestic Violence Denies All Accusations

Remembrance Of P.G.’s Chinatown

And the Moe just forced a Chinese restaurant out of it’s prized location . . .

A walk through the site of Pacific Grove’s Chinese fishing village will mark the 105th anniversary of the fire that destroyed it and ended 50 years of Chinese culture and history on the Peninsula.

The village, where Hopkins Marine Station now stands, burned to the ground on May 16, 1906. It was the largest Chinese community on the California coast, and its inhabitants pioneered Monterey Bay’s commercial fishing industry.

The boulders along the shoreline at Hopkins still bear scorch marks from the fire. Its origin remains a mystery, but the behavior of Pacific Grove’s white residents, during and after the fire, has been a lingering source of embarrassment for the city.

Remembrance Of P.G.’s Chinatown

Alan Cohen Gets Job At Golf Clubhouse

That’s why the Colossus Of Gold had Cohen with the “Eat At The Other Lighthouse Cafe” sign..

On March 23, councilman Alan Cohen and his colleagues voted 5-2 in favor of allowing Aqua Terra Culinary to take over the lease at the Point Pinos Grill, the eatery at the city’s municipal golf links at 77 Asilomar Blvd.

But questions about a possible conflict of interest were raised by several P.G. residents when Cohen was hired by Aqua Terra to cook at the grill for two days last week.

Alan Cohen Gets Job At Golf Clubhouse

Tom Frutchey Throws Former Planners Under Bus

Ever have an application rejected only to see a similar one breeze through?

In the April 15 email, Tom Frutchey painted a picture of a former planning department in complete disarray. Frutchey, among other things, claimed planners carelessly signed off on projects — and said that’s why it took less time to process applications and issue permits than it does now.

“Yes, things were much better in the old days, in large part, because staff didn’t folow the law,” Frutchey wrote. “Staff repeatedly approved projects after only partial or faulty analysis and otherwise sidestepped local and state requirements.”

Tom Frutchey Throws Former Planners Under Bus