Category Archives: Carmel Pine Cone

Aaron Corn Asks For Reduced Sentence

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Think he’s unlearned a lifetime of bad habits in 3 months? Nah.

Though Corn asked for probation, Scott sentenced Corn to most of the maximum nine-year term he could have received.

Believing the sentence to be too harsh, however, Frank Dice, Corn’s attorney, was scheduled to present a motion asking Scott to reconsider his sentence.
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But Scott said he took the crash and other examples of Corn’s previous behavior, which included a substance-abuse problem, into account when he handed Corn the sentence.

Corn was “described as someone who is always in trouble, someone who always caused troubled,” Scott said in March. “And that is from his friends.”

Arron Corn Asks For Reduced Sentence

Front Yard Golf Course Destroyed

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By order of the state. Make way for ugly native weeds.

Scraped earth is all that remains of a well kept mini golf course that was once prominent in the front of Robert and Maureen Feduniak’s house not far from Cypress Point. A bulldozer ripped out the lavish greens over the past two weeks.

The seemingly innocuous golf course — which looked like little more than a well groomed lawn to passersby — first drew the ire of the coastal commission in 2001 when the state agency was notified by a Del Monte Forest Foundation forester the novelty course violated a conservation easement limiting landscaping on the property to native plants — a condition of a 1983 permit for the home.

Front Yard Golf Course Destroyed

State Labor Board Sides With P.G. Cops

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Capped. Sounds like shooting it dead. Who makes up that labor board?

CalPERS allows a police officer to retire at 50 with a substantial pension. Police argue that it will be difficult to recruit and retain officers if their pension plan is capped.

The PERB complaint follows a lawsuit the PGPOA filed on Nov. 3, 2010, against the city over the pension issue. “The retirement contribution ordinance exceeds the initiative power of the people and violates the city’s charter and is therefore invalid and unenforceable,” according to the suit filed in Monterey County Superior Court.

State Labor Board Sides With P.G. Cops

Pollacci’s Next Rape Trial To Stay In Monterey County

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Pollacci Parking For Jury

Tommy has a public defender?

The trial of former liquor store worker Tom Pollacci — who was convicted last year of raping a woman before being charged with three more rapes — will not be moved to Madera County as his public defender had sought.

Though Pollacci’s attorney, Michelle Wouden, had argued the trial should be moved because it would be difficult to seat an impartial jury considering the extensive news coverage of Pollacci’s criminal cases, Superior Court Judge Terrance Duncan ruled May 20 the trial will stay in Monterey County.

Pollacci’s Next Rape Trial To Stay In Monterey County

Landlord Has Hammer Hassle, Gets Hauled To Hoosegow

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The Pine Cone is now publishing P.G. Police logs – check it out

A 75-year-old male on Presidio Boulevard was arrested for striking another person in the head with a hammer. Landlord was upset that the tenant below was using the hammer. He entered the tenant’s room, told him to stop, grabbed tenant and took hammer from him. Tenant’s friend tried to intervene. Landlord then struck tenant’s friend in the face and on his back with hammer, causing multiple injuries. Medical refused by all parties. Landlord arrested for ADW. Held on bail and transported to county jail.

Landlord Has Hammer Hassle, Gets Hauled To Hoosegow

Mvsevm Fetus Who Are You?

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The Mvsevm

Should the fetus, which is just 3 inches long, be put on display at a small-town museum best known for its scores of stuffed birds and wildlife animals? Or should it be handed over to a university, larger museum or research institution?

The answer depends on whom you talk to.

“I think it should be researched and retained at the museum as part of Pacific Grove’s cultural patrimony,” said Esther Trosow, a former museum board member.

However, city manager Tom Frutchey believes the long-forgotten fetus shouldn’t be returned to the museum because the city hasn’t given it “the respect it deserves.”

Wait, do they still have the Indian burial display? Or does that also not reflect the Mvsevm’s non-natural-history path it is taking>

Mvsevm Fetus Who Are You?

Frutchey Feasts

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Frutchey Dines On Crow

Frutchey claimed former planning officials “repeatedly approved projects after only partial or faulty analysis and otherwise sidestepped local and state requirements.”

His message — which infuriated previous planners, a former P.G. mayor and others — also alleged “staff made decisions that either were not theirs to make or were not in conformance with the codes.”

Frutchey Feasts

Will Pollacci Get A Change Of Venue?

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No surprises there. Poll people coming out of Costco and asking them about “Pollacci Rape Cases”. Sad part about this is that Tommy has yet to get to the Big House.

In response to the survey question, “how would you describe Thomas Pollacci?” the convicted rapist was called “vicious, despicable, guilty,” “evil,” a “slime ball” and “scuzz bag” an “egotistical guy who has to rape to feel superior,” Geringer reported.

“When I talked to these people, they were vicious and very, very angry,” she said.

But Eugene Bregman — a political polling expert retained by prosecutor Michael Breeden — reviewed Geringer’s survey said he found it was fatally flawed and took issue with the questionnaire and her sampling techniques.

“The biggest problem in the survey is that it’s not vaguely representative of the jury pool that will be called,” said Bregman, who said he was being paid no more than $4,000, also from taxpayers, for his work.

Will Pollacci Get A Change Of Venue?

DLI Teacher Accused Of Domestic Violence Denies All Accusations

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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

Alan Cohen Gets Job At Golf Clubhouse

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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