Category Archives: KION News

Starfish Are Losing Arms

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No, they are not losing 2nd amendment rights. Just disintegrating. The articles quotes a student saying the ocean floor resembles a graveyard. Ever see a graveyard with random limbs laying about? Scary thought.

Sarah Wilson, a student in the program, says, “It just looks lie a graveyard out there, just starfish arms scattered everywhere. Some are just one armed sea stars, two, three, some are doing a little better with four arms, but still it’s not what it should be.”

The central coast has thousands of different species of starfish lining their shorelines, but now Sarah says things are changing, “It looks like their tissues are degrading, so they are disintegrating away, and their arms are getting shorter, and shorter, and eventually falling off.”

Starfish Are Losing Arms

Monarch’s Law: Do Not Molest Butterflies In Pacific Grove

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Butterfly Molesting

Often brought up in “True Facts” articles. Really is a law on the books.

Many people many not know it, but there is law which was written more than 70 years ago. It says if you are caught molesting a Monarch, it’ll cost you $1,000. That’s how serious Butterfly Town USA is about protecting the butterflies.

Monarch’s Law: Do Not Molest Butterflies In Pacific Grove

Son Of LBAM – Moths Back In The News

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Mothra

Remember the stories of people claiming to get sick at the mere mention of spraying?

The moths will eat almost any plant species and pose a risk to the farming industry. “There are almost 2-thousand species of plants that they will feed on and they are very damaging so it does result in a reduction of their harvest,” said Lowerison. Right now areas of Morro Bay and Cayucos are under quarantine. Meaning some crops need to be inspected before being shipped out or sprayed with an approved pesticide.

In years past tactics for killing the insect have been much more aggressive. When the moth showed up in Monterey County years ago the USDA began using aerial spraying, at times over neighborhoods. The strategy set off protests and law suits.

Son Of LBAM – Moths Back In The News

Stuart Elder Charges Soon?

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TV Stations’s Jon replies with an update after the question is brought up in their “Ask Jon:” Feature.

The CHP tells me their reconstruction investigation has been completed. It’s very extensive and takes time to crime scene investigation. The report is currently being written and I’m told that report is over 75 pages long and should be done in the next two weeks. They’ll bring it to the DA’s office and brief them on their findings. The DA’s office will review the report and file any applicable charges and that may take another week or so.

Stuart Elder Charges Soon?

Lady Bank Robber’s Evidence

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While one of our most interesting criminals, certainly not the smartest.

While Padilla pleaded not guilty to her charges, evidence found from the search warrant link her to several of the robberies.

Inside her Watsonville home police found some of the clothes she allegedly wore when she robbed the six banks including a t-shirt with “Garden Isle of Kauii” written on the front, the same shirt described in the Pismo Beach robbery. In Padilla’s car police found several hand written notes, one read “hand me all of your large bills. I will shoot you.”

Lady Bank Robber’s Evidence

Hyperbaric Chamber At P.G. Fire Station Back In Use

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Story came just after a diver died at Stillwater Cove.

The chamber was not used for the diving victims Monday. They had the chamber on standby. The team was waiting for permission from physicians to admit the divers for the treatment, however one passed away, and the other diver did not show symptoms of decompression sickness. As a result, the chamber was not used.
It would have been the first time in nearly a year that this chamber would have been used again. It is one of the three in the whole state of California. There is one in San Diego, and one in Catalina. The chamber was temporarily not in use here because of insurance issues.

Hyperbaric Chamber At P.G. Fire Station Back In Use

P.G. Bank Robber Branching Out

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To other areas. At first glance at the picture I thought she looked like Carmelita.
Cristine Padilla BW Mayor Garcia With Robbers Hat

Back in December the woman robbed the Monterey Credit Union in Pacific Grove. Police believe she could be tied to robbing four different banks along the Central Coast.

The woman walked into the Monterey Credit Union cool, calm, and collected with nothing suspicious about her. She even had a brief conversation with the teller and that’s when the seemingly harmless lady turned dangerous, police said.

She told the teller it was robbery, that she had gun and there were people outside with guns. That’s when she opened her purse and flashed a pistol, investigators said.

Three more robberies in San Luis Obispo County have police thinking it’s the same culprit. “Very similar MO’s very similar descriptions for the person,” said Pacific Grove Police Officer Jon Miller.

P.G. Bank Robber Branching Out

Mario Cardoso Arrested For Rape Under Cannery Row

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Mario Cardoso

Police arrested 29-year old Mario Cardoso for attempted rape of an intoxicated woman. Few details about the case are being released right now because investigators are still trying to piece the case together, investigators said.

The assault happened Sunday around 9:40 p.m. under the pier at 700 Cannery Row.

Arrested For Rape Under Cannery Row

Stabbing Story Seaside Cop Is Fired

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Nowhere to go but down after he admitted to having affairs with other cops wives and 911 dispatchers.

Seaside Police conducted an internal investigation that lead to the department’s firing of Officer Justin Gill, who has been on paid leave since an alleged stabbing incident last year.

Gill was fired on June 27th and since it’s a personnel issue, the department said it can’t go into details on why he was fired.

In 2012, Gill was off-duty when he said he was stabbed on Forest Avenue and reported the suspects got away. However, the Monterey County District Attorney began investigating the case because they believed he may have lied about what happened.

Stabbing Story Seaside Cop Is Fired

June Diver Down Roundup

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Be safe, dive with a buddy.

Frank Sunset

June 16 – Diver reported missing at San Carlos Beach

According to the Monterey Fire Department, the diver reportedly went missing into the bay around 11 Sunday morning. Authorities say the diver’s truck is parked at the San Carlos Beach parking lot. Officials say they found a flashlight in the water, but it’s unknown if it belongs to the missing man

June 21 – Body of diver recovered from beach

The Monterey County Coroner’s Office has been called to San Carlos Beach to retrieve a drowning victim who may be the diver reported missing Sunday night.

“To be honest, I don’t know how anybody would be able to make an ID that quickly. I don’t know the condition of the body,” said Sonne, who had just spoken with a sergeant at the scene who reported the coroner had just arrived.

The drowning victim was discovered by other divers floating in a kelp bed about 30 yards off shore Friday morning. Sonne said he was in diving gear, minus his tanks.

The family of a Marin County man reported him missing Sunday night. Police found his car parked at San Carlos Beach and his flashlight underwater, but could not locate him and called off the search Monday.

June 24 – Lone diver dies at Breakwater Cove

Albert Reed MacKay, 43, of Yuba City, Calif., was diving about 25 feet underwater when something went wrong.

Nearby divers found MacKay, pulled him up to the surface, dragged him out of the ocean, and started CPR at 3:30 p.m. He was pronounced dead at the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula.