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Senator Considering Law That Would Bar Sex Offenders From Seeing Your Personal Information

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Write to the Senator and express your support! Abel Maldonado email

State Senator Abel Maldonado said he’ll consider proposing a bill that would prevent registered sex offenders from working in liquor stores and other businesses where they can check IDs and have access to customers’ personal information.

“Allowing registered sex offenders to view a person’s driver’s license, thereby allowing them to obtain important contact information like the person’s address, is extremely dangerous,” Maldonado said.

Maldonado made the comments to The Pine Cone after learning that registered sex offender and liquor store worker Thomas Pollacci, 49, was charged with three felony counts of rape stemming from an April 2008 incident. Pollacci’s family owns Ron’s Liquors in Pacific Grove, and he has worked there for years.

From the Internet in 2004 . .

Pollacci Megans Law Sex Offender

Senator Considering Law That Would Bar Sex Offenders From Seeing Your Personal Information

Where DID All The Pine Cones Go?

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Issue that broke the news about Tom Pollacci is flying off the racks. In bundles of 100.Squirrel Pine Cone

Someone driving a blue pickup truck was spotted at numerous locations around Carmel taking large stacks of Pine Cones. Under California law, it is a misdemeanor to take multiple copies of a free newspaper for the purpose of stopping someone from reading it.

One employee, who didn’t want to be identified, said she confronted a man who appeared to be in his 30s, who took a bundle at a Carmel Rancho business.

“I said, ‘You can’t take all of those,’” the clerk said, “and he really didn’t turn around. I said, ‘Excuse me, you can’t take all those; you can only have one.’ I said, ‘Why do you want all of them?’ And he said, ‘Just to have them.’”

Was all over the Peninsula, not just P.G.

Where DID All The Pine Cones Go?

Would YOU Show Your I.D. To A Registered Sex Offender?

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Think about it ladies – a registered sex offender could be looking at YOUR name & address when you buy alcohol or tobacco at Ron’s Liquors.

Pollacci Parking For Rape Victims

Police tracked down Pollacci after he reportedly left the woman at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula with a head injury. In the following months, they gathered evidence — including having forensics specialists sweep the Lighthouse Avenue liquor store where he works — and interviewed the victim, who is not from the area.

Neither officers, nor the district attorney’s office, would reveal any further details of the case. Pollacci, who police said is a registered sex offender, is set to appear in a Salinas courtroom at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 24, for his arraignment

Interesting screenshot obtained via email. One does get to wonder what the circumstances are to have this removed from the Megan’s Law pages.

Tom Pollacci Sex Offender

Would YOU Show Your I.D. To A Registered Sex Offender?

Beware Of Thom Ache-Man’s Tree Posse

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P.G. newcomer and former Hear-old reporter is out busting anyone who’s cut down a tree and not replaced it. He has absolutely no authority to do so. Should be removed from committee.

Acheman Book

P.G. Beautification and Natural Resources Committee member Thom Akeman told residents if they didn’t comply the city’s tree ordinance — which includes replanting two trees when one is removed- they faced penalties.

And Mayor Dan Cort said he heard from several people who thought Akeman specifically overstepped his role as a city volunteer.

“There were several letters and emails that I got from some of the people he visited and from their friends who felt it was something he shouldn’t do,” Cort said.

Though Cort said he understands the frustration and desire by some citizens to speed up city work, he said any sort of enforcement effort should be left to city employees.

Beware Of Thom Ache-Man’s Tree Posse

Car Event Stalls Like A V12 In A Sand Trap – Needs Environmental Impact Report

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Red Ferraris On Golf Course

When will Moammar turn to improving commerce for locals? Everything the guy does is to bring more transients to town. It’s time to boot the guy out. First cut I’d make.

Chamber of commerce president Moe Ammar said the main reason the show — which attracts hundreds of participants and thousands of spectators — is in jeopardy is that an environmental impact report might be needed before it can be permitted to move to P.G.

“With all the requirements with getting a permit,” Ammar said, “it’s highly unlikely the event will happen this year.”

In 2008, the city council said it didn’t want the Concorso to move to town because of concerns about golf-course damage from cars, traffic and other issues. But with the city’s economy hurting because of the global downturn, Ammar believes the council would change its mind.

Car Event Stalls Like A V12 In A Sand Trap – Needs Environmental Impact Report

Commercial Filming Shuts Down Lighthouse Avenue

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Said to be an AT$T Commercial, two days of shutdown from Congress Ave to 19th St. Some stores were compensated, others were not.

Baghdad Moe

Ammar said he personally notified every business in the area about the commercial and that streets would be closed.

One store owner, who wanted to remain anonymous, said he lost an estimated $700 in the two days the commercial was being shot because of the street closures. The owner said he was never notified the streets were going to be closed.

Besides closing the main street and tying up traffic, the commercial filmed Monday and Tuesday for AT&T cellular phone service blocked off dozens of parking spaces. But it also brought dozens of technicians and actors to town as the production company, Smuggler, shot scenes at the Red House Cafe, Miss Trawick’s Garden Shop and other P.G. locations.

“It was the best thing that happened to P.G. this year,” said Moe Ammar, president of the chamber of commerce. “It was very exciting for P.G. to see Hollywood here.”

Commercial Filming Shuts Down Lighthouse Avenue

This Month, Deborah King Is Not Competent

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What will it be next month?

Deborah King

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The murder case against King, who had been in treatment at Natividad Medical Center but is back in custody at the Monterey County Jail, cannot proceed until she is aware of the proceedings. She underwent similar evaluations for competency in the weeks following her arrest, was treated and deemed fit, and had been set for a preliminary hearing last week, when her mental state was again brought into question.

This Month, Deborah King Is Not Competent

Forest Hill Becoming Crime Central – Burglars Hit Club Fit

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Club Fit

On Sunday morning, police responded to a fitness club on Forest Avenue in regards to a window smash and burglary. Sometime between Saturday night at approximately 2015 hours and Sunday morning at 0900 hours, unknown person(s) broke the front glass door with a rock, entered the store and removed the petty cash. The case is under investigation.

Forest Hill Becoming Crime Central – Burglars Hit Club Fit

Don’t Count On Sleeping In – It’s Another Marathon On Sunday Morning

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Hope the tourists at Borgs or the Caribbean get to sleep early!
Marathon

The 24th Annual Together With Love Run/Walk, a fundraiser for the Monterey County Rape Crisis Center, will be held at Lovers Point in Pacific Grove Sunday, Feb. 8. Sponsored by Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, the 5K and 10K races will begin at 9 a.m.,

Don’t Count On Sleeping In – It’s Another Marathon On Sunday Morning