Pollacci Attorney Collecting Media Stories

Possible change of venue?

Judge Timothy Buckley granted Pollacci’s attorney, Michelle Wouden, documents that had been subpoenaed from The Herald, the Salinas Californian, the Monterey County Weekly, the Carmel Pine Cone and the Pacific Grove Hometown Bulletin, as well as electronic media from KION News Channel 46 and KWAV 97-FM radio.

Pollacci Attorney Collecting Media Stories

P.G. Man Arrested For Rape In Marina

Officers went to the 300 block of Reservation Road after receiving a report about a sexual assault that took place at 11:15 a.m. Tuesday.

A female victim told officers that she had been sexually assaulted by a man that she knows, police said.

Police said they later identified Benny Torres, of Pacific Grove, as the suspect in the case.

P.G. Man Arrested For Rape In Marina

Deborah King Trial: Son Of Victim Will Testify

PGMS J Woods Flowers

Jurors in the trial of a Monterey woman charged with murder in the vehicular death of a Pacific Grove father will hear a first-person account of the accident from the victim’s 15-year-old son.

The prosecutor and defense attorney agreed to let Jacob Woods, who is mildly autistic, testify by videotape to spare him the pain of attending the trial of Deborah King.

The road to that trial has veered five times since 2008, as psychiatrists evaluated King’s competency to assist in her own defense. In 2009, she spent nine months in a state mental hospital before a final evaluation deemed her ready for trial.

The road to the trial has veered? Is that appropriate for the story of an alleged DUI careening into a father & child?

Deborah King Trial: Son Of Victim Will Testify

Calling All Pacific Grove Cougars

Our Mvsevm is looking to hook up with the cats

Betty White

The exhibition also will use cougar life-mounts and skeletons, research tools and wildlife photography to tell the story of how mountain lions and humans co-exist.

The museum is seeking mountain lion photos and stories from the community. If you have a story or photo to share, contact exhibitions curator Annie Holdren at holdren@pgmuseum.org.


Calling All Pacific Grove Cougars

Poor, Poor New Monterey Alarmed At DLI Expansion Plans

Howard looks at increasing numbers of DLI students as a bad thing? In a part of town where newly built storefronts sit empty next to storefronts that have been empty for years.

French Glass, May 2009
French Glass

Another new empty building, January 2011

French Glass Gone

New Monterey is “the largest community in Monterey, and the most isolated,” said Howard Fosler, president of the New Monterey Neighborhood Association, as he opened a meeting Monday night at Hilltop Center to talk about issues facing the area.

The Presidio of Monterey sprawls between the old and new city, and with its gates closed since 2001 to public traffic, has increased the isolation of the neighborhood.

An increase in the student population will drive up rental costs in the area as military men and women seek off-base housing, Fosler said, and more students means more traffic.

Poor, Poor New Monterey Alarmed At DLI Expands

Holmans Jewelry Thieves Caught

That pose on the right should be welcome in Monterey County Jail

Holmans Jewelry Heist

Police in Pacific Grove arrested two brothers from Corral de Tierra on Friday who are suspected of jewelry heists on Lighthouse Avenue.

Cmdr. John Miller said Zachary and Joseph Thomas, 24 and 23, were arrested at the Pacific Grove Police Department Friday afternoon and were later transferred to county jail for booking.

Miller said the brothers walked into Holman’s Antique Plaza on Monday. One asked to try on a gold necklace, and while the other distracted an employee, the first walked out of the building wearing the jewelry.

Pacific Grove police sent out an “alert flier” to local police agencies, and Seaside officers recognized the brothers from “previous contacts,” Miller said. An officer called the men’s parents, he said, because officers did not have phone numbers for either suspect. The parents contacted the brothers and persuaded them to turn themselves in, Miller said.

Holmans Jewelry Thieves Caught