Category Archives: New Monterey

April 10th Diver Deaths Investigated

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Article names the divers and reports they were both certified and had been diving days before. Investigators are searching for the scuba tanks in the ocean.

It likely will be a few weeks before investigators can precisely say how two Nevada teenagers died during a scuba diving excursion Saturday off Cannery Row.

Stephen Anderson, 16, and Keegan Aiazzi, 17, were among a group of divers from a Carson City, Nev., high school oceanography class who went into the water from a commercial dive boat about a quarter mile from shore.

After they failed to surface and were reported missing, rescue divers from the Monterey Express charter boat found them on the ocean floor about 70 feet underwater, and they subsequently were pronounced dead at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula.

The divers’ deaths, which left the tight-knit Carson City community in shock, is being investigated by the Monterey County coroner’s office and the Coast Guard. If foul play was suspected, Monterey police would handle the case.

April 10th Diver Deaths Investigated

Two Teen Divers Drown Off Cannery Row

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First reported diver death this year.

Two teenagers drowned Saturday while scuba diving in Monterey Bay.

The divers were reported missing after others in their group surfaced and returned to their charter boat, the Monterey Express.

“Nineteen divers went down, two were reported missing,” said Felix Colello, a division chief for the Monterey Fire Department.

They were reported missing about 12:25 p.m.

“The two gentlemen were found on the bottom of the ocean,” Colello said. “They were brought up in cardiac arrest. We did CPR all the way to the hospital.”

The teens, 16 and 17 years old from Carson City, Nev., were pronounced dead at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula.


Two Teen Divers Drown Off Cannery Row

New Monterey Police Blotter – March 2011

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Is Hawthorne getting more ghetto these days?

3/1/11 Lost ring on Lighthouse Avenue.

3/1/11 Hit and run in the 200 block of Lighthouse.

3/1/11 FERGUSON, JACOB was arrested for DUI after being involved in a single vehicle accident in the 500 block of Cannery Row.

3/2/11 Restraining order service on McClellan.

3/3/11 Graffiti in the 100 block of Hawthorne.

3/3/11 Commercial burglary on Cannery Row.

3/3/11 REYNOLDS, LARRY GENE was arrested for public intoxication at Cannery Row/Bruce Ariss Way.

3/3/11 MCSO was aided in the arrest of REYNOLDS, LARRY GENE for a warrant on Cannery Row and Bruce Ariss Way.

3/4/11 Lost camera Cannery Row.

3/5/11 Lost phone on Foam / Reeside.

3/5/11 Graffiti on Lighthouse.

3/5/11 SMITH, ALAN was arrested for public intoxication at Oak / Irving.

3/6/11 PRITCHETT, CHASE was arrested for DUI in the 100 block of Foam.

3/6/11 Traffic accident on Lily and David

3/6/11 JAUSS, KEVIN was arrested for being under the influence of a controlled substance at Hawthorne.

3/7/11 VERGA, MICHAEL was arrested for public intoxication on Lighthouse.

3/7/11 Graffiti at the harbor masters office.

3/7/11 Traffic accident on Hawthorne and David.

3/7/11 Traffic accident on Foam and McClellan.

3/8/11 Graffiti on Hawthorne St.

3/8/11 Vehicle burglary on Withers.

3/8/11 Traffic accident on Private Bolio and Lighthouse.

3/8/11 LONG, SCOTT was placed under citizens arrest at Wharf 1 for theft.

3/9/11 Found bicycle on Cannery Row.

3/9/11 Theft on Archer St.

3/9/11 Traffic accident on David and Belden.

3/9/11 Graffiti on the Rec Trail.

3/9/11 LONG, SCOTT was cited and released at Wharf 1 for theft of utilities.

3/10/11 Graffiti on Foam and Prescott.

3/10/11 Graffiti on the Recreation Trail north of Reeside.

3/11/11 Theft on Lighthouse.

3/11/11 Graffiti in the 600 block of Foam.

3/11/11 Battery on Cannery Row.

3/12/11 MPD documented an arson in the 500 block of Wave.

3/12/11 MPD documented a peace disturbance at 640 Wave

3/12/11 Traffic accident on Lighthouse and McClellan.

3/14/11 HUGHES, DEANDRE was arrested for DUI and driving on a suspended license on Lighthouse at Private Bolio.

3/14/11 Graffiti on Cannery Row.

3/14/11 Traffic accident on Cannery Row.

3/14/11 Hit and run on Lighthouse.

3/14/11 MEREDITH, STEPHANIE was arrested Lighthouse for theft and conspiracy.

3/15/11 Graffiti vandalism on Cannery Row.

3/15/11 CAMPREGHER, JILLIAN was arrested for DUI on Pacific and Artillery.

3/16/11 Traffic accident on Foam and Hoffman.

3/17/11 Theft of a purse on Cannery Row.

3/17/11 Peace disturbance on Cannery Row.

3/19/11 Theft of a bike from McAbee Beach.

3/19/11 Hit and run on Hawthorne S of David.

3/20/11 REES, WILLIAM was arrested for public intoxication on Wave Street and the Recreation Trail.

3/20/11 Hit and run in the 200 block of Lighthouse.

3/21/11 Grand theft on Cannery Row .

3/22/11 Found ring on Wharf I.

3/22/11 Traffic accident on Irving at Lighthouse.

3/23/11 Battery on Prescott.

3/25/11 Vandalism on Lyndon St.

3/25/11 Vandalism on Spencer.

3/25/11 MEREDITH, STEPHANIE ELISE was arrested for petty theft on Lighthouse.

3/25/11 Traffic accident in the 300 block of Hawthorne.

3/26/11 Hit and run on McClellan.

3/27/11 Traffic accident on Lighthouse and Hoffman.

3/27/11 Disturbing the peace on Cannery Row.

3/29/11 MCSO was aided in the citation of REYNOLDS, LARRY for a warrant on Cannery Row and Hoffman.

3/29/11 Monterey Police and Fire Departments investigated a trash can fire on the north-west corner of David and Lighthouse.

3/29/11 Grand theft on Prescott/ Wave.

3/29/11 REYNOLDS, LARRY and JEWETT, DANIEL were cited for possessing open containers at David Street and the Recreation Trail.

3/30/11 REYES, LUZ, was arrested for public intoxication in the 600 block of Cannery Row.

3/30/11 Traffic accident on Laine St.

3/30/11 BONGIORNO, NEIL was arrested for public intoxication on Hoffman Ave.

3/30/11 Theft from motor vehicle on Cannery Row.

3/30/11 Traffic accident on Lighthouse and Prescott.

3/30/11 Hit and run on Wave Street.

New Monterey Police Blotter – March 2011

Monterey Accused Of Violating HIPAA Rules In Raid

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If HIPAA rules do not apply to marijuana sellers, how can it be legally called a medicinal drug?

“He opens up a HIPPA labeled file,” says Jhonrico Carrnshimba, a MyCaregiver director. “He sees a number of files in it at this point they should close the file. They shouldn’t have these files open.”

But, Fred Cohn from the City of Monterey defends their actions.

“Medical marijuana establishments are not governed by HIPAA,” says Cohn. “The only reason that those records were compromised is because they continued to operate illegally against the court order.”

Monterey Accused Of Violating HIPAA Rules In Raid

Pot Shop In Contempt?

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Pot Shop

Assistant City Manager Fred Cohn said the city filed notice Tuesday requesting the court ask MyCaregiver “to explain why it should not be held in contempt.”

Friday’s search, he said, turned up marijuana and documents indicating marijuana transactions were taking place at the co-op at 554 Lighthouse Ave.

Attorney Richard Rosen, who represents MyCaregiver co-founder Jhonrico Carr-Nshimba, said the city brought the contempt action “based on small technicalities about zoning and business licenses. It is completely ignoring the big issue, which is why is it legal everywhere else in California except Monterey?”

Pot Shop In Contempt?

Pot Users Depressed Over Loss Of Pot Pusher

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Sometimes it seems that the “medicine” is used primarily to treat the effects from the lack of “medicine”.

Pot Shop Closed

On Friday night, a woman was spotted going inside MyCaregiver and admits this isn’t her first time.

“I do have a medical marijuana card,” says client. “I probably go here once every week.”

The woman didn’t want Central Coast News to use her name, but said for the past year, she bought medical marijuana at the dispensary to treat anxiety and depression.

Pot Users Depressed Over Loss Of Pot Pusher

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

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

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