Category Archives: Monterey Herald

Lighthouse Avenue Pot Pushers Plucked

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Fred Cohn gets his man.

No Pot Club

Cohn said Carr-Nshimba and at least one other MyCaregiver employee were on the premises at 554 Lighthouse Ave. when city code compliance coordinator David Wright and a police escort arrived, but refused to allow entry. After police forced their way inside, it took about an hour to search the premises, according to Cohn. There were no arrests.

The city sued MyCaregiver and Carr-Nshimba in February 2010, arguing that the operation violated the city’s zoning laws because they do not specifically accommodate medical marijuana facilities.

Judge Robert O’Farrell granted a temporary injunction against the operation last year, agreeing with the city that Carr-Nshimba had not been forthright on his business application by describing it as a “health care cooperative,” and said he would be distributing “herbal remedies.”

Lighthouse Avenue Pot Pushers Plucked

Olinger Killer Asks To Represent Himself

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Judge says no.

Judge Timothy Roberts told Jacobo Ruelas on Thursday he could not sufficiently prepare for a trial that has been rescheduled three times in three years and is now slated to begin April 4.

In addition to work already completed by his own attorneys, the judge said, there are 9,000 pages of reports that would have to be redacted to remove identifying information regarding confidential witnesses.

Ruelas, 31, is charged with murder during the commission of a robbery and carjacking in connection with the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Kristopher Olinger. A jogger found the Monterey High School student in a turnout above the Pacific Grove Recreation Trail on the morning of Sept. 19, 1997. He had been stabbed 24 times.

Olinger Killer Asks To Represent Himself

Middle School Drop Off Point Unsafe?

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It’s safe as long as there are no impaired drivers careening down the street.

J Ciccarelli’s report, delivered in November 2008, recommended the city consider moving the loading zone to Sinex or Fountain Avenue and prohibit parking or stopping on Forest outside of the school.

Pacific Grove Unified School District Assistant Superintendent Robin Blakely said Ciccarelli’s study looked only at pedestrian safety and sidewalks and was “quickly discredited” because it recommended moving the loading zone to Fountain Avenue, which is closed during school hours. Additionally, he said, there are already alternative drop-off and pick-up zones.

He said Forest Avenue in front of the school is “no more narrow” than other streets around the school and elsewhere in the city. If a city street is safe then drop-off should be safe, he said.

Middle School Drop Off Point Unsafe?

Fire Hits Wax Museum, Meltdown Averted

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Have your computers checked & blow the dust out once in a while.

Famous Author

Monterey fire division chief David Brown said crews were dispatched to 700 Cannery Row on a report of a structure fire in the former building of the Monterey Canning Co. When firefighters arrived they learned that a computer in the office space at the Spirit of Monterey Wax Museum had caught fire.

Fire Hits Wax Museum, Meltdown Averted

Joel Woods’ Son Testifies At Deborah King Trial

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Tremendous strength, I’d say.

PGMS J Woods Flowers

Jake Woods gestured toward a self-drawn diagram of the accident scene to illustrate where his father was standing when he was hit, and where he landed after the collision. The diagram included sketches of both vehicles, his father and himself.

“I saw Dad look both ways as he went around the back of the truck to get in,” he said. “He was outside the driver-side door, with the door closed, and I heard a loud thump when the lady hit him. After he got hit, I didn’t really pay attention to the lady. He was in the gutter, bleeding all over the place. People were screaming and I didn’t know what to do.”

Jake described watching a school employee tend to his stricken father, and seeing teachers usher students toward the school cafeteria.

He said he went by himself to the school office, where he talked with teachers. He said he watched from the office as a tow truck pulled the car that had struck his father from the scene. He said he saw a broken windshield on the passenger side of the vehicle.

Son & Ex Husband Testify In King Trial

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Son called 911 thrice when Deborah King had blackouts.

Both men said they warned King dozens of times that she would kill someone if she didn’t stop driving while drunk and medicated on prescription narcotics.

King, 54, is charged with second-degree murder and driving under the influence of prescription drugs in the death of Joel Woods, 35, who was struck and killed as he was getting in his truck after picking up his son at Pacific Grove Middle School on Sept. 2, 2008.

According to testimony, King has five prior drunken-driving convictions in Kern County, one of which led to a prison term.

Son & Ex Husband Testify In King Trial

Budget Amendment Funds Golf Course Clubhouse

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Wasn’t is supposed to be self sustainable?

Mayor Carmelita Garcia and Councilman Dan Miller voted against the measure, objecting to the city operating the golf clubhouse grill through June 30 until a new operator can be found. That is estimated to cost $203,000 to employ cooks and waiters while reaping an estimated $230,000 in income.

Budget Amendment Funds Golf Course Clubhouse

Taxis Stop Work In Protest

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Taxi On Row

Hacks in fear of higher fees. I can think of some other less qualified leaders they might fall under.

Did someone say TAMC?

Hunter Harvath, assistant general manager of the transit agency, said he understands the nervous uncertainty behind the drivers’ concerns. But he said details of how the new taxi agency will work are still being worked out.

“We have not charged a penny to anyone yet,” he said. “We are still in the formulation period.”

He, too, denied the allegation that MST — which is governed by elected officials from cities and Monterey County — took on the taxi authority to spur bus ridership at the expense of cabbies.

“It’s nothing we asked for. We have our hands full trying to run a bus company,” he said.

Taxis Stop Work In Protest

Doctor Fail – Should Have Taken Deborah King Off The Streets

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Trust you hunches in the future, Doc.

Two weeks before she struck and killed a Pacific Grove father, Deborah King’s physician considered hospitalizing her for acute fatigue.

Prunedale osteopath Dr. Adelheid Ebenboech said she was so concerned about her patient’s condition during an emergency visit Aug. 15, 2008, that she warned her to limit her driving, but continue to see her therapist, while tests were run to see what was causing the fatigue.

Doctor Fail – Should Have Taken Deborah King Off The Streets

Trial Begins For Deborah King

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Think guilty.

In his opening statement, prosecutor Steve Somers told the jury that King, 54, has been warned on multiple occasions about the dangers of driving while impaired. The courts told her; the Department of Motor Vehicles and her ex-husband did, too.

But on Sept. 2, 2008, with a cocktail of prescription drugs in her system, Somers said, King chose to get behind the wheel of her BMW X3 and drive from Monterey to a noon appointment with her therapist in Pacific Grove.

After nearly rear-ending another driver at the stoplight on the off-ramp from Highway 1 to Highway 68, King weaved her way down to Forest Avenue and her tragic collision with Woods.

Trial Begins For Deborah King