Category Archives: Monterey Herald

Mother Of The Year Award

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Teaching son how to drive when she’s too drunk to.

Police said Heather Howe, 35, told officers who arrived shortly before 8 p.m. that she wanted to show her 10-year-old son how to back up her car. She placed the boy on her lap and put the car in reverse, police said.

 

The car backed rapidly in a clockwise circle, hitting several objects before coming to rest against a stone wall across the street, police said.

 

Howe was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and child endangerment, police said, and released on $25,000 bail.

Mother Of The Year Award

P.G. Shoplifters Don’t Shop Local

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Just an observation.

A Pacific Grove woman was arrested Friday at the Dunes Shopping Center after she was spotted leaving a store with over $600 worth of stolen goods, Marina police said in a news release.

Store employees told police that Amy Huntington, 42, is suspected of committing the same offense five other times during September, taking more than $1,000 in merchandise.

P.G. Shoplifters Don’t Shop Local

Jean Danvers Guilty In Mother’s Death

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Lived on Forest Hill Bl.

The prosecutor said Charlotte Danvers was well-known in the community and active in her church, where she volunteered as a crisis counselor for pregnant women.

Then she took in her daughter and son-in-law, who were living in a trailer in Nevada and fell on hard times. Things were all right until late 2008 or early 2009, when Jean Danvers’ husband died.

At the time, Matheson said, the elder woman was independent, though suffering from chronic, age-related ailments. She had seen a doctor in 2008 and showed no sign of injury.

Soon, Jean Danvers was refusing to allow her mother’s friends to visit and doctor’s visits stopped. She became her sole caregiver and contact, said Matheson.

When Jean Danvers called police to the house in 2009, she told them, “I battered my mother.”

Jean Danvers Guilty In Mother’s Death

Pollacci Stalling State Prison

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For some “medical treatment”.

Sentencing for convicted rapist Thomas Pollacci has been delayed until November to allow him time to seek medical treatment for “recently discovered medical issues.”

Deputy Public Defender Michelle Wouden said her client “is addressing medical concerns prior to being sent to state prison, not at the county expense.”

Pollacci was to have been sentenced this morning to six years in prison for raping a woman in his parents’ travel trailer. The sentence was part of a plea bargain that spared him a potential 30-to-life sentence for three rapes.

Pollacci Stalling State Prison

Arkwright Court Tops In Weird Crime

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Calling 911 while on drugs, Check. Shooting indoors, Check. Lasers, Check. Yep, weird.

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Officers said emergency dispatchers received multiple calls around 12:50 a.m. from an apartment on Arkwright Court, with the callers reporting laser lights flashing, a robbery and being chased by “people and cars.”

 

Police arrived and arrested Ian Peel, 41, Jeffrey Rutt, 19, and Sean Lessen-Dees, 18, all described as residents of the apartment.

 

Charges included being under the influence of a controlled substance, drug and paraphernalia possession, and negligent discharge of a firearm.

 

Police said they found a loaded .357 Magnum revolver that had been fired inside the apartment.

Arkwright Court Tops In Weird Crime

Add Charges Of Creating Child Pornography To P.G. Couple’s List

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Jason Wright and Rampueng Kaeorawang not only possessed the porn but were producing it.

The case began in November when FBI agents acting on a report of downloaded child pornography searched Wright’s workplace, Farmer’s Insurance on Lighthouse Avenue in Pacific Grove, according to an affidavit filed in federal court. Wright was present and consented to a search of his laptop computer, which was seized after agents allegedly found child porn on it.

 

A subsequent forensic search of the computer identified numerous files depicting graphic child sexual abuse, according to the affidavit. Based on those findings, a grand jury indicted Wright on May 11.

 

A search of his house was conducted the next day and more computers were seized. On them, the affidavit states, electronic forensics experts found photos of Kaeorawang engaging in sexual conduct with a young girl.

Add Charges Of Creating Child Pornography To P.G. Couple’s List

P.G.H.S Advice: Stay Out Of The Woods

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School officials told police that on Thursday a student “was coerced by two fellow students to a wooded area off school property” then beaten, police said.

 

The two alleged assailants may have been under the influence of narcotics, police said. They were taken to Monterey County Juvenile Hall on suspicion of assault with great bodily injury and conspiracy

P.G.H.S Advice: Stay Out Of The Woods

There Goes The Neighborhood In DMP

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Sidewalks in Del Monte Park? That just ruins the character of the place.

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On the east side of the church property, new houses — and a new sidewalk — have been built, and the Rev. Chuck Davis, pastor of the church, sees the writing on the wall.

 

Terry O’Connell, Davis’ neighbor but not a Church of Christ member, said the new sidewalk is built at an angle that would require the church “to give up a sizable piece of its property” to merge the sidewalks.

 

He said city street supervisor Emilio Alcaraz said the city plans to require sidewalk construction whenever property owners seek permits for reconstruction or remodeling their homes or businesses if they don’t already have a sidewalk.

There Goes The Neighborhood In DMP

1983 Homicide Victim From PG Located At Del Monte Center

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Skeletal remains found Aug. 18 by a land surveyor in a wooded area near Del Monte Shopping Center were those of a 20-year-old Pacific Grove woman who disappeared in the winter of 1983.

Dental records led to identification of Jennifer Lynn Morris, who was last seen about 3 p.m. on Jan. 24, 1983, after she made a purchase at a store in the center, police said Wednesday.

1983 Homicide Victim From PG Located At Del Monte Center

Pacific Grove Man Robs Spanish Bay

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of a big bottle of gin.

 

The Sheriff’s Office said a man walked into the bar about 11:20 p.m., grabbed the bottle and took off.

An employee chased the thief, but was met outside by the accomplice, who punched and pushed the employee before trying to follow his partner who had grabbed the liter of gin, deputies said.

But employees caught the accomplice and held him until deputies arrived.

The suspect, Corey O’Halloran, 19, of Pacific Grove was on probation for trespassing on Pebble Beach property and under a court “stay-away” order, deputies said. He was taken to Monterey County Jail.

Pacific Grove Man Robs Spanish Bay