Category Archives: Carmel Pine Cone

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

Tom Frutchey Throws Former Planners Under Bus

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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

Ugly Tourist Information Sign Is Non Compliant?

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Even if you do get a permit, you don’t have to abide by the conditions? Can’t wait before the corner looks like a San Jose used car lot with banners, flags, whirygigs and stuff.

Tourist Misinformation

“While the sign is ugly,” Ammar concedes, “it does attract people.”The sign isn’t too far off the shape of the old China Garden sign, except it’s not arched like the old one. And it isn’t the marker the city originally OK’d.

“It is not the sign that was approved through the zoning process,” Frutchey said.

Ugly Tourist Information Sign Is Non Compliant?

King Defense – Taking Prescribed Medications Is Not “Intoxicating”

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Grisly picture of Deborah King’s BMW in the Pine Cone.

Despite her public defender’s efforts to get her declared incompetent and institutionalized instead of being sent to prison, Deborah King — found guilty by a jury in February of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated in the 2008 death of Pacific Grove resident Joel Woods — received a prison sentence of 15 years to life from Monterey County Superior Court Judge Russell Scott last week.

King Defense – Taking Prescribed Medications Is Not “Intoxicating”