Two Pacific Grove women were arrested Wednesday morning on suspicion of trespassing at a property owned by an aunt of one of the women.
Rindi Rehs, 33, was cited and released, and the owner’s niece, Cynthia Hurley, 47, was also found to be in possession of drugs, police said. Hurley was charged and released on bail.
“Right in the middle of all this wealth and affluence is West Virginia,” Chief Carl Miller said. “We were getting calls.”
Bad analogy, chief.
Complaints have flowed in to Ammar’s office from residents who said the ad was tasteless and inappropriate for something promoting what is billed as a family event in, of all places, America’s Last Hometown.
The chamber’s mailer, which was sent to 12,000 Peninsula residents, features an advertisement depicting a couple lying in bed together, and a caption reads, “Ladies, are you feeling shy about taking it off for your husbands? Feel comfortable again about getting naked!”
“There was nothing about it that jumped out at me at first,” said Ammar. “Then the phone calls came in and I read it more closely. You would hope the ads would be more traditional.”
For the record, another ad inside the mailer depicts the backside of a naked woman sitting on a skateboard, with the upper half of her “backside” exposed.
That’s one sad looking fat lady. You don’t see starving orphans in food ads or smelly drunks in beer ads, why do they use a sad fat person in a diet ad?
The Pacific Grove City Council voted 7-0 Wednesday night to increase speed limits from 25 to 30 mph along nine stretches of city streets.
According to state law, speed limits are set slightly below the 85th percentile of a recent three-month survey conducted on city streets. The speed limit increase is the only legal way the police department can enforce radar.
Woohoo! Rev it up. The streets are:
Before Wednesday’s meeting, City Manager Jim Colangelo said Pacific Grove was in a win-win situation because it couldn’t lose money.
“The concessionaire is not interested in extending the lease, and we are looking at this as an opportunity for the city to pick up additional revenue,” he said.
“This is an opportunity for the city to be able to look at how we can improve our service to the public and to the citizens of Pacific Grove,” said Leach.
Under the new management structure, the position of superintendent will also include the title director of golf. The city will hire eight maintenance workers and four part-time workers.
The proposal left Schenk skeptical.
If you already have the overhead in place to hire/train/pay an employee base, why not?
Police are searching for a Carmel man they suspect stole credit cards, cash and other personal belongings from unlocked cars in Pacific Grove and Monterey last week, and allegedly forged checks to pay for a 1994 BMW.
Jon Cory Lanite, 19, is also suspected of stealing a 1988 Toyota pickup, police said.
Investigators said they identified Lanite in connection with the March 29-30 thefts after arresting 19-year-old Kyle Shiejak of Pacific Grove on March 31. Officers said the two were partners in the crimes.
Lanite was last seen Friday driving a white BMW with license plate number 3KHC887, police said.
On March 11, a peaceful marine conservation rally sponsored by the Tidepool Coalition was held on the 17-foot-wide sidewalks in front of the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Our purpose was to gather signatures protesting proposals before the Fish and Game Commission to commandeer our city-owned Pacific Grove Marine Garden Refuge.
We met no less than three times with the department to obtain necessary permits. We had a permit, and permission for keyboard music. Amplification was less than 60 decibels.
At 1:15 p.m. police appeared, responding to an aquarium complaint. The sergeant in charge had a single purpose — to intimidate and trash the event. He purposefully made conditions so restrictive, it was impossible to gather signatures or continue the assembly.
Must have needed money for a makeover.
Michael Leslie Clouse
A Salinas man dressed in woman’s clothing was arrested early Monday after he allegedly held up a Monterey gas station.
Police said Michael Leslie Clouse, 26, of Salinas, was arrested on a charge of suspicion of armed robbery and held without bail for alleged parole violations.
Police said a robber described as an unshaven white man, wearing a black wig, a black evening dress, fishnet stockings, calf-high boots and carrying a black purse, entered the USA gas station at 2338 Del Monte Ave., shortly before 1:15 a.m., drew a handgun and demanded money, then fled with an undisclosed amount of cash.
Police said officers conducted a parole search at the apartment of Jeffrey McCormick, 33, and found methamphetamine in the residence.
McCormick and a house guest, Sarah Turner, 46, of Salinas, were arrested on suspicion of possessing methamphetamine, police said, and McCormick was booked into Monterey County Jail on a parole hold. Turner was booked in lieu of $10,000 bail.
Pacific Grove police found $10,000 in stolen computer equipment Friday in the trunk of a car driven by a Marina man during a traffic stop in the 2800 block of David Avenue.
Jeremy Cullen, 26, was driving without a license and with an open can or bottle containing alcohol when police stopped him at 12:30 p.m., Cmdr. Tom Uretsky said.
Police searched the car and found the trunk filled with stolen computer equipment linked to two separate burglaries in Pacific Grove earlier this month. Cullen was arrested on suspicion of possession of stolen property, Uretsky said.
Oceans 18, a Monterey Bay-themed course — complete with sea otter and sea lion obstacles and a swirling starfish in place of the traditional toy windmill — is scheduled to open in early May.
While one of the three buildings that comprise the Tin Cannery is filled with tenants, a second building is about half vacant, Grimm said. In 2000, The Herald reported that the center had 40 shops. There are now 25, Grimm said.
As outlet tenants leave, the plan is to bring in more entertainment and fitness-related businesses, casual dining spots, and maybe even a microbrewery and a cafe to tie the American Tin Cannery closer to the tourist- and family-oriented Cannery Row, Grimm said.