Category Archives: Pacific Grove

Maybe The Painter Should Lay Off The Coffee

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The Pine Cone’s police log has gotten much more interesting with the addition of P.G. to the report.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13

Pacific Grove: Monarch Lane resident reported his painter called him twice in the early morning hours. The painter wanted to speak about an upcoming job. The resident spoke to him and advised him not to contact him at 0200 hours. He was concerned the painter would continue to call in the future and asked for police to speak with him. An attempt to contact the painter failed, and a message was left on his voicemail.

Maybe The Painter Should Lay Off The Coffee

Pollacci Accused Of Additional Rapes While Under Investigation

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Pollacci Parking For Jury

The latest alleged victim, Jane Doe 2, was raped in October and November 2008, her lawsuit says. Last spring, Pollacci was convicted of raping Jane Doe 1 in April 2008 and sentenced to eight years in prison. Both rapes happened in the liquor store, according to court documents.

Pollacci has already been charged with assaulting Jane Doe 2 and faces a preliminary hearing next week. But details of the latest rape have not been revealed until now.

“In or around October 2008, plaintiff entered Ron’s Liquors as a patron and encountered Thomas Pollacci, who was working in the store at the time,” the lawsuit says. “As plaintiff shopped, Pollacci approached her and persuaded, convinced and otherwise manipulated her into a lunch meeting. During the lunch, Pollacci drove plaintiff to an unfamiliar, deserted area near the beach where he sexually assaulted her” including “forcible intercourse.”

Pollacci Accused Of Additional Rapes While Under Investigation

Another Library Tax Fails

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Hasn’t it been proven enough or do the supporters assume that the masses are not smart enough to know better?

Liberry

In a repeat of the November 2009 municipal election, supporters of Measure Q again failed to garner the two-thirds supermajority needed to pass a special tax to fund the Pacific Grove Public Library.

The final unofficial vote tally from Tuesday’s election showed 2,827 votes in favor of a parcel tax for the library to 1,796 against. With just more than 61 percent approval, the measure fell short of the 66.6 percent needed to pass.

Another Library Tax Fails

Pollacci Rape Victim Sues The Store

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It’s getting more interesting now – civil action on the enablers.

Corked bottle

Pollacci has been convicted or accused of sexual assaults multiple times since the 1980s. In all, five women testified at his trial about being attacked by him.

Friday’s suit seeks unspecified general and punitive damages against him, his family and the business. It alleges sexual battery, assault and battery and infliction of emotional distress by Pollacci and Ron’s Liquors; negligent hiring, retention and supervision against his parents, Ronald and Jean Pollacci, his brother, David, and the store; and negligence against all.

Pollacci Rape Victim Sues The Store

Diver Sues Over Earache

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After diving at Lovers Point

Lovers Point Sewer Pipe.

In a lawsuit filed Oct. 21, Theresa Raglen, who claims she became seriously ill after diving off Lovers Point on Sept. 20, 2009, contends the county tested and found elevated levels of human and animal waste six days earlier, on Sept. 14, 2009, but failed to post signs to warn the public of the potential danger.

“No effort was made to warn members of the public of the potential risks of entering the water at Lovers Point Beach,” the lawsuit said. “The lack of sufficient warnings was a substantial factor in causing” Raglen to become sick. The county often posts signs warning the public of high levels of pollutants in the ocean off Lovers Point — warnings that are often ignored by swimmers, surfers and divers.


Diver Sues Over Earache

No Tagging Of Monarchs

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Monarch Molesting No Touch

The Pacific Grove City Council decided Oct. 20 to hold off on an eight-year program of tagging monarch butterflies for fear handling the insects could disrupt the population of the butterflies, which was drastically lower in the city last year than in previous years.

Tagging “requires physically touching the butterflies,” Jim Becklenberg, the city’s budget director told the council. “This year, given we have the low numbers … I think we need more information before making that decision for tagging.”

No Tagging Of Monarchs

In The Market For Eight Dollar Jar Of Pickles?

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What a happy girl and her pickle may look like:
Happy Girl Pickle

Well then, Happy Girl Kitchen is ready to sell them. I’ll stick with Save Mart, thank you.
8 dollar pickles

It all began when the couple lived on a Norway fjord for a summer and discovered the many pleasures of canning and preserving food. On the family farm where they worked, canning wasn’t just a foodie whim, it was vital to keeping the bounty of the brief harvest season to enjoy during the cold, long winter.

On their return to the States, they began a business called Fearless Pickles, which has since morphed into Happy Girl. These days, they have eight full-time employees as well as a national and international following: Todd Champagne recently shipped an order to a major department store in Switzerland, and food writers near and far are also singing their praises, with recent press in The New York Times Magazine and The Guardian.

In The Market For Eight Dollar Jar Of Pickles?

Car Burglars Caught In P.G.

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Hope you die, scum thieves that won’t work to earn what others enjoy.

At about 3:50 p.m. an officer noticed a 1990’s white Chevy Blazer moving inconsistently eastbound on Lighthouse Avenue.

After several blocks, the Blazer abruptly stopped in the middle of the road.

Three men exited the sports utility vehicle and fled.

At 4:47 p.m., police found one suspect, Manuel Rodriguez Hernandez, 18, of Seaside, hiding between two parked cars near Laurel Avenue and 1st Street.

At 6:27 p.m., Monterey Police found the suspected driver of the Blazer, Francis Geovanni Ruiz Perez, 18, also of Seaside, walking on the Recreation Trail near the 200 block of Hannon Street.

The third suspect, Julio Cesar Rodriguez, 19, of Seaside, was found at 7:15 p.m. on the 900 block of Hilby in Seaside..

Car Burglars Caught In P.G.