A man and woman found with black tar heroin hidden in a secret car compartment were arrested after running a stop sign, Pacific Grove police reported.
Officers said Paul R. Shapiro and Christine J. Morrow were arrested Sunday after a 9:30 p.m. traffic stop in the 200 block of Ocean Avenue.
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Darius Engles Is The New P.G. Police Chief
Local boomerang makes chief.
Darius Engles, 51, who graduated from Pacific Grove High School in 1973, replaced Carl Miller, who retired Friday after 30 years with the department. He had served as chief since 2003.
Engles attended Monterey Peninsula College and then California State University-Sacramento, where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice. He worked in the Sacramento area as a police officer for 10 years before returning to the Peninsula in 1985.
How To Pay Back The Golf Fund
Pacific Grove city staff members will be looking for ways to repay more than $1 million taken from the city’s golf enterprise fund during the past several years that was moved to three other city funds.
The City Council’s decision late Wednesday was based on a partially completed audit released by the Harvey Rose Accountancy Corp. earlier this month.
The auditors found that all money in each of the city’s 24 funds was accounted for. But it showed that several inter-fund loans were made without the consent or knowledge of past councils, and without proper documentation, including the transfer of more than $1 million from the city’s golf course enterprise fund to its sewer service, workers’ compensation and Chautauqua Hall funds.
Well some suggestions I’ve heard:
More metered parking.
Turn the shoreline into an RV park.
Nude 2007 City Council Calendars.
Tax churches.
Tax real estate transfers.
Where’d They Hide The Body?
Sam The Sham Farr and the case of the missing opponent.
During his three decades in public office, Rep. Sam Farr, D-Carmel, has experienced election campaigns and political opponents of nearly every stripe. He’s faced serious challenges and less-serious challenges, mainstream-party opponents and alternative-party opponents.
But even the veteran Farr has never faced an opponent quite like Anthony DeMaio.
That’s because after filing late and running unopposed in the Republican primary, DeMaio has all but disappeared. The phantom candidate hasn’t answered repeated phone calls and e-mails seeking comment.
Sounds like the making of a conspiracy – what did they do with DeMaio?
Sam The Sham has been on the radio lately, whining about housing costs and the lack of affordable housing in his area. If he thinks he can do something about it WHY DID HE LET IT GET THIS MESSED UP TO BEGIN WITH?
Taxi Driver Beaten, robbed And Carjacked in PG
Dennis Lee Dumas, 45, of Cathedral City, was booked into Monterey County jail on charges of carjacking, assault with a deadly weapon, felony vandalism and possession of stolen property. Police said Dumas called for the taxi cab from a bar in Monterey. After Dumas was taken to Grove Acres in Pacific Grove about 11:20 p.m., the driver asked for his fare, whereupon police said Dumas took the driver’s flashlight and began beating him in the head.
Ron Russell On Crows
To be sure, nothing in Monterey causes sleep deprivation more consistently than crows, except the clamor of the mindless auto and motorcycle races at Laguna Seca. Geniuses like Schopenhauer detested noise and wrote essays about how maddening it was to intellectuals and nappers like he and I.
Why do we have such a great population of these dirty, noisy, scavenger birds? I suspect it’s because they have no natural predators to chew them into pieces. Hawks, owls, vultures and eagles appear about as frequently as pterodactyls. So crows go about their nasty ways with full license, willfully murdering sweet birds such as finches, robins and sparrows whose numbers are declining. How can we stop this occupation and genocide?
Aw, I like the gameful interaction between the crows, jays and squirrels. The noise of animal life is preferable to the power tools, yard blowers and stupid barking dogs.
Missourians Fear The ‘Pinos’
According to a report in the Columbia Daily Tribune, the issue arose when city planners in Columbia proposed to change the name of a street from “Point Penos” to “San Mateo.”
According to the Tribune story, a couple of city commissioners figured the reason for erasing Point Penos from the slate was obvious.
“Add a Missouri drawl and the name could be trouble,” the Tribune writer concluded.
I noticed the same thing when John Denver crashed into the bay at Point Pinos – every news anchor across the country referred to the area as “near Lovers Point” or “off the California Coast”. No news reader would dare try and say it.
DUI Causes Major Injuries To Monterey Man
And the man charged with DUI was not the injured one…
A Monterey man was seriously injured after his vehicle was hit head-on by a man suspected of driving under the influence Wednesday night, the California Highway Patrol reported.
Officers said Lance Millington, 55, was taken to Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula with major injuries after his vehicle was hit just after 10 p.m. on Holman Highway, west of Scenic Drive.
William Boyd, 55, of Monterey lost control of his eastbound vehicle and swerved into the opposing lane, officers said, striking Millington’s vehicle, which left the roadway and went down a 10-foot embankment.
Boyd was arrested and charged with DUI causing injuries.
DUI Laws as they should be:
First offense – Drivers’ license suspended for life. Vehicle impounded. Can never own a car or get insurance for life. Fine equal to 2 years wages.
Second offense – enabler that gave drunk a car loses the car. Another fine – same rate PLUS add the same fine to the enabler.
Third offense – 10 years in jail.
Lillian King’s Niece Pleads No Contest
Cynthia Hurley pleaded no contest Thursday to stealing close to $1 million worth of valuable coins and jewelry from her 98-year-old great aunt.
An agitated Hurley, appeared reluctant but waived her right to a jury trial and admitted one count of elder financial abuse.
She will be sentenced to one year in jail and three years probation as part of the agreement. The plea bargain requires her to sign over her 30 percent interest in four Pacific Grove properties to reimburse Lillian King for her losses.
“I am hurt and I’m sad because my niece just threw her life away and she could have had a lovely one,” said King.
Flustered P.G. City Arborist Quits
Ronald Blecha, who had been on the job less than two months, abruptly resigned last week citing a lack of funds to do the job properly and “the abundance of experts” on trees in the city, according to an e-mail sent to the City Council from City Manager Jim Colangelo.
Colangelo said the resignation was unexpected and that there were no signs Blecha was unhappy during a follow-up meeting with the Public Works Department on Thursday.
Who’s an expert?
City Council candidate David Dilworth said he was concerned about the cutting of trees.
“What was essentially presented to you was a forest-cutting plan, not a forest sustainability plan,” Dilworth said. “We are standing on the threshold of losing the forest.”
Ah – that expert.