Presidio police work both the Presidio and a portion of Fort Ord.
A Presidio of Monterey police officer was arraigned Friday morning in Santa Cruz County Superior Court on seven counts of child sexual assault in a case dating back nearly 20 years.
Barney Ramnauth is accused of sexually assaulting a child under the age of 14 in 1998. He was arrested Tuesday.
Presidio Of Monterey Police Officer Popped For Child Sexual Assault
Gang hits, knife fights, it just aint as safe anymore.
The gunman who Monterey police believe murdered a 28-year-old man on Cannery Row last month was identified Tuesday as Jorge Luis Mendoza.
The murder victim, Raul Melendez of Monterey, was followed from the restaurant to the Cannery Row Parking Garage on Wave Street at 1:40 a.m. on Nov. 23. He was shot multiple times. He was transported from the bloody scene to Natividad’s trauma center, where he died.
Monterey police also released the names of the men who were behind a double stabbing during a fight at the Blue Fin Billiards and Cafe at 685 Cannery Row.
Joel Robledo, 40, of Salinas and Frank Guzman II, 27, of Castroville, stabbed each other while fighting on Dec. 3.
Police described the two men as “rival gang members from Castroville and Salinas.”
Just because it’s not Salinas or Watsonville doesn’t make it any safer.
Jorge Luis Mendoza, 21, is wanted by the Monterey Police Department as the possible culprit in the killing of Raul Melendez, 28, who was shot Nov. 23 at the entrance to the Cannery Row parking garage on Wave Street.
Monterey police detectives say Mendoza is a gang member who most recently lived in Salinas. He’s currently on parole for assault with a deadly weapon and is considered armed and dangerous.
Melendez suffered several gunshot wounds and was transported to Natividad Medical Center, where he died of his injuries.
Monterey investigators also identified the men who stabbed each other Saturday at the Blue Fin Billiards and Café, as Joel Robledo, 40, of Salinas and Frank Guzman, 27, of Castroville. Both men were transported to Natividad Medical Center for their injuries.
Both men got stabby and stabbed each other. No winner in this knife fight.
The double stabbing comes a little more than a week after a man was shot and killed in the Cannery Row parking garage. Hober said this is not an uptick in violence in Monterey and that police have no reason to believe the two incidents are related. The only commonalities between the incidents are time of night and location.
“I don’t think this is specific to Monterey. I don’t think there is an uptick,” Hober said. “I think that what’s happening is two incidents that happened close to each other, where it started in the bar venue and resulted in the violence.”
Not much violent crime in that part of the city?
Monterey Police Department officers found Raul Melendez shot multiple times at the entrance of the Cannery Row garage when they responded to a call for help at 1:41 a.m. Wednesday. Melendez, a Monterey resident, was transported to Natividad Medical Trauma Center in Salinas, where he died of his injuries.
“There has not been a homicide in that area since 1991,” Lt. Mike Bruno said. “That particular area of the city … is pretty rare where we have such a violent crime like that.”
Monterey is attracting the wrong people.
Officers found Raul Melendez, 28, of Monterey, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds inside the garage on Wave Street, across the street from the Monterey IMAX Theater.
Melendez was transported to Natividad Medical Center, where he died.
An employee at a Cannery Row restaurant said he heard the slaying while he was getting in his car to go home. The man who wishes not to be identified said he was terrified when he heard six shots.
Commandeered a rowboat. Not the fastest getaway.
Hop aboard
Officers arrested Adrian Chronister of Pacific Grove on Friday after he fled by jumping into Monterey Harbor and trying to steal a vessel to escape, police said.
Chronister, 26, was on felony probation. He was booked on charges of obstructing/resisting an officer, possession of drug paraphernalia, attempted theft of a vessel and three commercial burglaries (two in Monterey and one in Pacific Grove).
Bet an otter pushed her out.
The Monterey Fire Department responded to San Carlos Beach below Monterey Plaza Hotel and Spa on Cannery Row at 12:30 p.m.
“They were coming in on kayaks and the first lady came in without incident and the second lady, when she started to come in was knocked out of the kayak by a wave,” said Monterey Fire Division Chief Felix Colello. “And then the wave slammed the kayak into her legs and broke her legs.”
Last year, the city decided to change its policy, after negotiations on rental agreements failed. Those changes caused several businesses to get eviction notices.
“When leases are up we want to get to market rate that doesn’t mean that it has to go from where it is today to market rate tomorrow and we expressed interest and council expressed interest in taking some time and ramping up market rate over a period of years,” said city manager Mike McCarthy.
Last month, Balesteri’s Wharf Front was evicted after being in its location for nearly 40 years. Owner Sam Balesteri said he had been paying $4,000 in rent on a month to month basis for the past two years.
Is Haffa comparing a residence where the landlord maintains everything to wharf pilings? If the toilet at the Grotto backs up does Haffa call and pay for the plumber?
major issue is that last year the council voted to shorten lease agreements to 10 years. City Manager Mike McCarthy has repeatedly said, however, that they are not strict policies, but guidelines and that the council will negotiate. The city has offered lease terms that exceed that time period if tenants commit to make improvements to the premises on which their business resides. Also at issue is the cost of leases and whether they are fair market value.
“Leaseholder(s) pay $405 or $680 per month rent for waterfront properties,” Councilman Alan Haffa said Tuesday. “How much does a one-bedroom cost per month?”