But Samuel Shaffer is right enough to be released on OR?
The 31 year old Pacific Grove man accused of smashing the windshields of two expensive British sportscars in Carmel during Car Week may not be mentally fit to stand trial, according to a filing in Monterey County Superior Court, but Samuel Shaffer can remain out of custody on his own recognizance until the next hearing, which is scheduled for February 2026.
Remember Martha Vasquez that got 15 years for the death of a client?
The owners, Starr and Slovenski, on behalf of themselves and their corporate business, agreed to pay a total of $45,000 in civil penalties and costs to resolve this matter and are prohibited from making any false claims regarding their treatments and must ensure good-faith examinations are to the standards required under California law
PG has not won the shoe game in over ten years, did Carmel really need to carry this out?
The Carmel school district is looking into an allegation that one of its varsity football players offered to pay someone to injure a Pacific Grove player ahead of last week’s Shoe Game between the schools, the superintendent told The Pine Cone this week.
On Oct. 9, the mother of the P.G. High football player notified Carmel Unified Superintendent Sharon Ofek, head football coach Golden Anderson and principal Elizabeth Duethman of a social media post purportedly made by a Carmel High teenager offering “$80 to anyone who hurts” the P.G. teen.
Giraffe. Stable. I see what you did there. Good reporting CPC.
A black BMW smashed through the front display window Of the Holman Building in Pacific Grove at lunchtime Wednesday. The driver was “treated at the scene for a complaint of pain and released,” according to Pacific Grove Police Cmdr. Brian Anderson. No one else was injured and the kitsch in the shop, including an approximately 6-foot giraffe wearing a racing saddle, appeared in stable condition.
Based on the angle of the crash, it appeared the driver had accelerated from a parking spot in front of the building. Two officers were overheard saying the driver had been ‘talking on her cell phone, but said she was using Bluetooth.”
About her money interest in the bar/club/record store that she voted to have a noise permit for.
After The Pine Cone covered the reporting lapse, Rau in late March submitted a new FPPC filing conceding her ownership of 215 Forest, which is worth more than $1 million, and annual rental income from Pop & Hiss of more than $100,000.
She also listed a $100,000 loan she got from a Pebble Beach resident, her $1 million-plus home on 19th Street, and various investments.An attorney for the city said in July that Rau “is not, and never has been, involved with the operations of the Pop & Hiss business.” However, a recent anonymous complaint sent to the FPPC claims the city’s portrayal of Rau’s connection to Pop & Hiss contradicts official paperwork for a limited liability company, Lovers Point Properties, Rau established in 2023. According to documents on file with the California Secretary of State, Rau was the company’s CEO, while her spouse Mary Walker and Pop & Hiss owner Michaela Kuenster were listed as “managers or members” of the LLC.
Tina Rau Comes Outhttps://carmelpinecone.com/251107PC.pdf
Must be those Methodists, keeping us safe from pagan celebrations.
“They stole all my sister-in-law’s stuff out the back of their truck and tried ripping the decorations that were already up,” the woman said, adding that her boyfriend yelled at the thieves and they took off in a small dark colored sedan. “We’re pretty sure a truck was also involved.
We had one [reported] incident of Halloween decorations being stolen and vandalized on Oct. 27 in the 700 block of Hillcrest Ave.,” Pacific Grove Police Sgt. Brian Anderson said. “Skeletons were damaged and parts of them were stolen.” While some suggested that police check the city’s traffic surveillance system for vehicles that matched the description, Anderson said police did not have a “sufficiently detailed description of the suspect vehicle to use our cameras.”
Hope it wasn’t an IV Lounge customer.
Get To Da Choppa
We were driving by and there was a weird sound,” a P.G. High freshman, who video-recorded part of the event, told The Pine Cone Wednesday night. “We saw cop cars and ambulances and then a helicopter on the field.”
Tried to seize the Monarch Resort. I’m usually suspicious of these tax funded humanity projects.
On Oct. 16, FBI and IRS agents arrested 31 -year-old Cody Holmes, financial officer of Shangri-La Industries, on a federal complaint alleging he provided fake bank records to the California Department of Housing and Community Development, which paid him nearly $25 million in taxpayer funds for a state homelessness project dubbed Project Homekey.
And the Coast Weakly thought this was a “Great Thing”.
No cautions about Bahena, but we were warned about a dead deer. PGUSD, where do you keep getting these people from?
On Monday, the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office arrested Benjamin Bahena, 37, for the fatal stabbing of a man on the 100 block of Market Way near Chinatown.
Bahena was booked into Monterey County Jail on a $1 million bond. Bahena worked for Pacific Grove Unified School District as a teacher’s aide, which the district calls a paraeducator, until September 2024.
Afraid of losing voters? 
Afraid of sending out pictures of John Mothershead’s version of a Flock at work (right)?
It wants Pacific Grove to “explicitly prohibit any access or sharing with ICE and border protection or other Immigration agencies — directly or indirectly — without written city authorization,” and to confirm whether immigration authorities have accessed the camera data.