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Pair Busted For Fake Prescription Attempt

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Arkwright Court residents Michael Dodd, 27, and 25-year-old Patricia Brown.

“The pharmacist was smart and called Doctors on Duty to check, and learned no prescription had been issued by the office,” he said. “They learned it was a fake prescription.”

Instead of returning Dodd’s phone call, the pharmacist alerted Pacific Grove police and then waited for him to come attempt to pick up the narcotic painkillers. When the
Arkwright Court resident appeared at the store around 4 p.m., pharmacy staff called the police.

Pair Busted For Fake Prescription Attempt

P.G. Man Arrested For Beating Woman & Tried To Force Her To Drink Beer

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Instant idiot, just add alcohol.

Police arrived at a residence on 19th Street in Pacific Grove late Feb. 20 to find a woman “outside crying hysterically,” with blood on her chin and shirt, P.G. Police Cmdr. John Nyunt said Tuesday. The woman had called police, telling them her 29-year-old boyfriend, Andrew Scheiber, who is also he father of her child, had beaten her.

They had been drinking, and the fight stemmed from an argument they had about a family member while preparing for dinner, according to Nyunt. In addition, “he allegedly tried to force her to drink some beer,” he said. “She didn’t want to drink it, so he was forcing it down her throat.”

Man Arrested For Beating Woman & Tried To Force Her To Drink Beer

P.G. Father Arrested For Choking Son

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Pacific Grove Lane resident James Long and his son have a lengthy history of fighting, Nyunt said, and officers have been called to their home on multiple occasions. The altercation leading to the arrest began Feb. 17, when the two started arguing and threatening each other.

“The dad told him he had one minute to pack his bags, or he would throw his belongings out of the house. The son got mouthy with him, and they got into a fight,”

Nyunt pointed out parents who have trouble with their kids should take advantage of resources, such as counseling, rather than acting out against them. “Even though your kid is unruly, you can’t just say, ‘Get out of here — I’m not going to take care of you,’” he said. “You can’t just abandon your kid.”

P.G. Father Arrested For Choking Son

Sex Offenders Can Ask For Your ID In P.G.

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So, who is Miller referring to in that last sentence?

Five of seven council members, though, said the ordinance had too many bugs, including that it placed too much burden on employers and was not easily enforceable.

“I see that we want to protect individuals … it’s our obligation,” councilman Ken Cuneo said at the meeting. “I don’t know if by adding another layer of law it will make anybody safer in doing so.”

However, Miller told The Pine Cone this week that he and Garcia, both of whom voted for the ordinance last week, haven’t given up on it yet.

Miller told the council why he and Garcia drew up the ordinance, which he said would help officials “protect people who can’t protect themselves.”

“The reason this came up is for years there was somebody in town,” Miller explained, “who I knew factually would ask for identification for purchase of alcohol … and show up at their houses after taking their addresses from their driver’s license.”

Sex Offenders Can Ask For Your ID In PG

No Criminal Charges Against Le Normandie Owners

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How about civil charges?

Normandie

The Monterey County District Attorney’s Office told The Pine Cone that it has dropped its criminal investigation into Christine and Francis Richard over allegations — by people in at least three California counties — the French couple solicited loans from them but didn’t pay them back.

In February 2010, The Pine Cone interviewed numerous former customers of the Richards who said the couple asked them for loans — as much as $15,000, according to one patron.

But after giving them money, the customers alleged the Richards never repaid them, even after making promises to do so. Several more people contacted The Pine Cone after the article was published and made similar allegations.

No Criminal Charges Against Le Normandie Owners

Seaside Woman Drives Into Insurance Office

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And the office does not have a drive-through option.

A woman driving a Subaru SUV crashed straight through the front wall of a Pacific Grove insurance office Wednesday afternoon but miraculously managed to avoid killing or seriously injuring anyone.

At about 1:30 p.m., Galina Griffiths of Seaside was heading West on Lighthouse Avenue when she attempted to park her Subaru Forester in a diagonal parking space in front of the Tom McKinney State Farm Insurance office at 716 Lighthouse Ave.

It’s not clear what caused the Subaru to travel into the office, but Figueroa said some drivers use their left foot to brake while using their right foot to control the accelerator.

Seaside Woman Drives Into Insurance Office

P.G. Man Arrested For Marina Rape

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Wonder if he checks IDs in P.G.?

Marina police arrested Pacific Grove resident Benny Torres after he reportedly raped a woman somewhere in the 300 block of Reservation Road. Lt. Rick Janicki would not reveal any details of the case, other than to say the woman knew Torres and reported the rape at around 11:15 a.m. Officers’ investigation led them to Pacific Grove, where, with the help of colleagues from PGPD, they took Torres into custody.

P.G. Man Arrested For Marina Rape

1964 Stolen Gun From P.G. Turns Up In San Jose

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Would the landlord at 17 Mile Drive Village steal a gun?

A Smith & Wesson .38-caliber Chief’s Special discovered in the SUV of a convicted felon arrested in San Jose last month for a suspected DUI crash had been stolen from a Pacific Grove man almost a half-century ago, according to police.

“He purchased the handgun in Southern California in 1963 after he had just gotten out of the Marine Corps, and he was living in Pacific Grove, renting a house near the old trailer park on 17 Mile Drive, in 1964,” he said. The gun was stolen, and he suspected the landlord.

1964 Stolen Gun From P.G. Turns Up In San Jose

Anti Golf Party House Side Plays Global Warming Card

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Resident threatening to file California Environmental Quality Act lawsuit to keep rowdies away.

“The proposed project … will result in the detriment to the health, safety, peace, morals, comfort and general welfare of persons residing in the neighborhood as well as depression of property values in the immediate neighborhood,” he said.

Bridges contends the city has to complete an environmental impact report for the project before approving. His determination challenges Hefner’s Dec. 21 report, in which she recommended a much lower level of environmental review — a “mitigated negative declaration” — after weighing potential impacts on noise, community aesthetics, traffic and global warming.

Anti Golf Party House Side Plays Global Warming Card

Lillian King Passes Away

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Agha is the conservator…

Lillian Marie King, the colorful, longtime Pacific Grove woman who made headlines in 2005 after more than $2 million in gold and silver coins was stolen from her home near Asilomar State Beach, has died. She was 103.

According to court documents, King died Jan. 28 in her P.G. home, where she had been receiving round-the-clock help from caregivers.

Her attorneys and the conservator of her estate, Nader Agha, a Pacific Grove businessman who owns the Holman Building, said King had a youthful spirit despite her age. Even into her 100s, she was impressing those who cared for her.

Lillian King Passes Away