Category Archives: Pacific Grove

Richard Coleman Murder Case Reopens

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Cops to use modern forensics – finally.

Richard Coleman

New technology incorporated in the national forensic database has given renewed hope to Pacific Grove police that they will finally close the murder case.

“We have not forgotten about this,” Police Chief Darius Engles said. “It’s an active and open case.”

He (said investigators collected sufficient evidence, so new forensic techniques for identifying palm prints and DNA will catch up with the killer.

That evidence, he said, was submitted in July to the national DNA database. The process takes months, Engles said, but police expect results.

Richard Coleman Murder Case Reopens

Olga Ospina Gets $87,000 For Dead Dog

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After turning down a settlement of $40,000 she finds that twice that amount is sufficient. But she still does not get what she originally wanted, to kill the other dog. Lighthouseavenue.com post, 11/9/07:

But Olga Ospina wanted a different result. “Please help me, put this dog down” she said at the hearing Aug. 16.

Olga Ospina

A Superior Court jury awarded $87,000 Tuesday to local television anchorwoman Olga Ospina, whose dog was fatally mauled in a Pacific Grove attack three years ago.

Ospina testified the incident was emotionally draining. In 2007, the city determined the Labrador was not vicious and required the dog to undergo behavioral training.

Olga Ospina Gets $87,000 For Dead Dog

Racists Burned Down Chinatown, Celebrate Every Year

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“Historian” says Feast Of Lanterns being multicultural is egg-foo-young in the face. Feast of Lanterns does an about face and plays down the whole multicultural thing.

They fished for squid using lighted boats on moonless nights, Lydon said. The lights of the boats on the bay were a tourist attraction, “like Christmas decorations on the ocean.”

Those lighted boats may well have inspired Pacific Grove’s annual Feast of Lanterns at Lovers Point, where an ersatz Chinese pageant is re-enacted.

Racists Burned Down Chinatown, Celebrate Every Year

Aaron Corn Faces DUI Charges In Accident That Injured 5

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Hear-old fails to mention that persons under 21 are considered impaired with any blood-alcohol level.

Police are seeking the driver, Aaron Corn, 18, of Pacific Grove, to be charged with driving under the influence and driving under the influence resulting in injury while having a blood-alcohol level of 0.08 percent or more. People over the age of 21 are considered impaired with a blood-alcohol level of 0.08 or more.

Aaron Corn Faces DUI Charges In Accident That Injured 5

Scott Miller Makes Good Copy

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The Hear-Old article tries to catch Miller up with the other two Sheriff candidates’ tabloid fodder.

Southpark raccoons

While serving as Pacific Grove’s police chief, he says he refused to bow to pressure from City Council members who wanted friends promoted and traffic tickets forgiven, and that he did the right thing in firing parking enforcement officer Rhonda Ramey, whom he suspected of wrongfully ticketing cars so she could obtain title to them.

Scott Miller Makes Good Copy

Would You Show Your ID To This Man?

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Jordan Thomas Pollacci

Pine Cone reports that accused robber Jordan Pollaccii worked at Ron’s Liquor in P.G. Yes, the same liquor store that his father Tommy worked at.

I would not patronize businesses that employ rapists, robbers or domestic abusers.

Pollacci was taken into custody at the police department late Feb. 24. “He voluntarily came to the station, and during the course of the interview, he was arrested,” Engles said. He was lodged at Monterey County Jail on $80,000 bail.

Engles could not say how Pollacci is related to Pebble Beach resident Tom Pollacci, whose rape trial is set to take place later this month, but the younger Pollacci was often seen working in Ron’s Liquors on Lighthouse Avenue in Pacific Grove, which is owned by the Pollacci family and is the scene of the April 2008 crimes alleged against Tom
Pollacci.

Would You Show Your ID To This Man?

Not Pot Sales (for at least 60 days)

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Ha ha, funny sign.

A Pot Hicary

Sponsors of a medical marijuana dispensary named the Apothecary Inc. were served a notice of injunction by Pacific Grove City Attorney David Laredo on Wednesday, prohibiting any transfers or sales of marijuana on the property at 115 Central Ave.

Laredo named Daniel Maniscalco, Tamara Mims, Erica Gamecho and Carmen Nazay specifically in the injunction, filed on grounds that the city has declared a moratorium on issuing permits for such dispensaries.

Maniscalco told the council that no marijuana transactions had taken place on the property.


Not Pot Sales (for at least 60 days)

Unsolved P.G. Murder – Fifteen Years Ago This Day

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One of LighthouseAvenue.com’s premier edition articles. No progress was ever made and why nothing was mentioned in the paid media I don’t know. Prayers go out to the family of Richard Coleman.

Coleman

Crime Stoppers of Monterey County is a volunteer organization that assists enforcement agencies by urging the public to call anonymously with information about criminals and crimes. The following account regards a murder that took place in Pacific Grove in 1995 of a young man who was known in the gay community.

On March 4, 1995 an unknown male called police about 9 p.m. to report what was discovered to be the body of Richard Graham Coleman III in Apt. A at 303 Grand Ave., Pacific Grove. He had been murdered.

Coleman’s body was found on the floor of the kitchen that Saturday night. There were signs of a struggle and indications of boxes and cupboards having been searched.

The victim had reported that the same apartment had previously been burglarized. Two days before the murder, he had moved to a motel room in Marina because he feared for his life.

Unsolved P.G. Murder – Fifteen Years Ago This Day

Feast Of Lanterns Is Celebration Of Burning Down Chinese Camp

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Words from Sandy Lydon, elitist historian.

The May 17, 1906 blaze that swept through most of the Chinese village at Point Alones seared not only the landscape of the Monterey Peninsula, but the memories and histories of its people. The fire continues to loom as some kind of Original Sin whenever there are discussions about this remarkable Chinese village tucked into the cove on Pacific Grove’s eastern boundary.

What emerged was a festival that replicated the lights of the squid boats that had been driven away. Some members of the Chinese community find the resulting festival offensive. The Feast of Lanterns folks respond that their event has nothing to do with the Chinese village.

Feast Of Lanterns Is Celebration Of Burning Down Chinese Camp