Following a March 4 preliminary hearing, Monterey County Superior Court Judge Rafael Vazquez found there was sufficient evidence to believe Razo committed two counts of attempted premeditated murder, shooting at an occupied vehicle, and two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, and he ordered her to stand trial.
Razo also faces several enhancements, including causing great bodily injury. She’s being held in Monterey County Jail. Her bail has increased to $2,030,000.
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Turn The NOAA Building Into Another Art Gallery?
Got the money, do it. Just what is most useful another art gallery open 16 hours a week. Just tear it down and plant some butterfly favored fauna. Or maybe a mountain lion preserve.
While those circumstances might suggest that the group has little chance of competing with deep-pocketed bidders, Greene pointed out that there are very few things a buyer could possibly do with the building and land due to its sensitive location, which is zoned for open space. “Because it falls in the Coastal Zone, it would be hard for anyone to come in there and do any significant development,” he said. Before trying to acquire the building and land, Greene said his group first wants to see if there’s local interest in the project.
Tourist Hucksters Want To Change Airport’s Name
Carmel-Fresno Airport has a nice sound, right? Is this the same group that wanted to change the name of the Stockton airport to San Francisco Stockton Regional Airport.
Should we all just start tacking “Carmel” to everything to increase it’s value to the less than intelligent tourists?
A Carmel tourism group has proposed changing the name of the Monterey Regional Airport — as it’s currently known — to the Carmel-Monterey Regional Airport, according to a proposal to the airport district’s board of directors this week.
Representatives for the group, Visit Carmel, which is funded by hotel and restaurant customers, showed Monterey Peninsula Airport District’s five directors Wednesday a presentation outlining why it believes including “Carmel” in the name would benefit the airport and the city.
Lifespan Of A Huge Jade Rock: About Nine Years
When it’s left sitting in a front yard on Ocean View.
On March 5 at about 9:25 a.m., a person in a silver Chevrolet Suburban pulled up to a house on Ocean View Boulevard, picked up an expensive jade that was in the front yard and put it in the rear of the vehicle. The driver then fled the area. Surveillance video captured the theft of the rock, which police said was valued at $5,000.
The unidentified jade owner purchased the sizeable rock nine years ago, and it had been in his front yard since,
391 Years to Life For Eric David Bloomer
Die in jail, sicko.
a jury last November convicted Eric David Bloomer, 52, of nearly a dozen felonies stemming from his repeated molestation of his ex-girlfriend’s 10-year-old daughter in Pacific Grove in July and August.
Pacific Grove police arrested Bloomer Aug. 25, 2019, several weeks after he had moved there to live with his ex-girlfriend and her two children, ages 6 and 10. She kicked him out after a month-and-a-half. Two weeks after Bloomer was evicted, the older daughter, referred to as “Jane Doe” in court, disclosed he had sexually abused her the whole time he was living there, when her mother and family members were away working or were in other parts of the home.
Read My Municipal Code, No New Taxes
Officials so excitedly worked up over more taxes they failed in the written exam.
California Department of Tax and Fee Administration was going over the paperwork for P.G.’s approved ballot measure, officials noticed an error. Following the election, the Pacific Grove City Council — instead of approving a resolution supporting voters’ decision to increase the sales tax — inadvertently supported a resolution to increase the city’s “uniform sales and use tax” — a different type of tax.
The two separate tax categories, represented by numbers, are differentiated by just one digit in the city’s Municipal Code, and nobody noticed that the resolution referred to the incorrect category.
After the tax agency informed P.G. of the blunder, the city council tried to fix it by repealing and replacing the bungled resolution. But that didn’t satisfy the state. On Jan. 28, officials told Pacific Grove that because of the error, it would not honor Measure L and would not collect the increased sales tax on the city’s behalf.
Read My Municipal Code, No New Taxes
Rude Racist Of Questionable Competency
John Charles Ensor, 48, was arrested at gunpoint by Pacific Grove Police officers on Aug. 12, 2020 after they say he made threats, yelled racial slurs and threw an aluminum baseball bat at a vehicle and a beer can at another. The Monterey County District Attorney’s Office charged Ensor with a litany of crimes, including a hate crime, assault by means to produce great bodily injury, criminal threats and exhibiting a deadly weapon.
A mental health evaluation was filed, but Butler has not yet ruled on whether or not he is competent to stand trial. Ensor tried to get Jefferson, his taxpayer-funded attorney, fired from his case at the Dec. 4 hearing.
Failed Project Bella, Lawsuit Goes Federal
Place ought to be used for senior housing.
The former U.S. Army general facing a lawsuit by an investor over a failed luxury hotel in the American Tin
Cannery has successfully had the case moved from Monterey County Superior Court to federal court.Investor Todd Timboe in October 2020 sued four-star Gen. Wesley Clark and four other businessmen who were behind the failed Project Bella, a high end hotel proposed for the American Tin Cannery. Proponents promised the hotel would bring scores of jobs and millions of dollars in tax revenue for Pacific Grove, but the proposal crumbled long before a shovel ever had a chance to hit ground.
A new project to build a hotel on the site proposed by Comstock Development has better financial backing and is moving through the process, though some residents are still opposed to the idea of a hotel on the site. Timboe filed the lawsuit in civil court in Monterey, alleging the hotel backers had fraudulently induced him to invest $500,000 in the project — even as the companies behind the development didn’t have the financial wherewithal to build the hotel.
Oooo Sting!
In the latest of a long string of cars being driven into local buildings, this Subaru crashed into a music store in downtown Pacific Grove Thursday morning.
Police didn’t say what they believe caused the crash or identify the driver, but the wreckage offered some possible clues: A handicapped placard is visible near the steering wheel and there’s a walker on the back seat.
Nader, Got Any Water?
Somebody’s going to get sued..
The application for the project was made by Vista Nadura LLC and developer Nader Agha, who were told in September by the Monterey County Planning Commission that their application is incomplete. They are appealing that decision to the county supervisors.
The site is located behind Carmel Valley Manor. The subdivision dates back to 2002, and Agha contends his application should have been certified as complete 13 years ago. A county report at the time indicated that the application was determined to be incomplete “because the applicant had not submitted proof of adequate water supply.”