Pacific Grove police say the fatal shooting of a male early today was an apparent suicide.
The victim was found in a vehicle about 4:30 a.m. in the 100 block of Country Club Gate in an area behind the Save Mart market, Nyunt said.
Category Archives: Pacific Grove
P.G. Man Arrested In Seaside Hillbilly Heroin Bust
Same drug taken in an armed robbery in Pacific Grove in September.
Local narcotics officers have seen a major increase in the illicit use of Oxycontin, a synthetic opiate that produces a heroin-like high, police said.
Police conducted the operation Dec. 1 but didn’t announce the arrests until Thursday.
The one-day narcotics operation took place at several locations and involved “probation searches and an undercover officer,” he said.
Individuals arrested on drug charges were identified as Cristopher Balaban, 21, of Monterey; Charles Clifton, 22, of Monterey; Johnny Magallanez, 23, of Seaside; Michael Castaldo, 22, of Monterey; and Blake Davis, 22, of Pacific Grove, police said.
Lynne Nicole Feurer Sentenced To Six Years
Teacher gets half of the expected 11 years detention at most.
After listening to more than a dozen people speak on Feurer’s behalf, Judge Larry Hayes said her positive contributions to society outweighed the aggravated circumstances of the crime that would have called for the maximum sentence of 11 years in prison.
Feurer, 66, was charged with murder in the death of 80-year-old Joseph Francis Cupita and could have been sentenced to life in prison had she been convicted at trial. She pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter in October.
Survey Says There’s Nothing In P.G.For Tourists To Do
(Obvious)
A perception that “there is nothing more to see or do” limits repeat tourism to Monterey County, said a survey of 9,000 people compiled for the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Those surveyed cited a lack of activities, more than the weak economy, for limiting their visits. The survey was compiled by Ohio-based IMPACTS Research.
More than 40 percent of those who visited the county hadn’t returned within two years, the survey found.
The survey found the aquarium is by far the biggest draw for tourists, and that people generally don’t differentiate one city or community from another, except for Carmel, Pebble Beach and Big Sur.
Took an Ohio research firm to figure out that people don’t visit for everyday life, they visit for events like Laguna Seca or the Crosby. Shopping for ‘art’ or dining on $22 plates of noodles is not an attraction.
Holman Building Not For Sale . . .Yet
A rumor was going around town that the building and adjacent property were for sale, based on a multiple listing that remained on the books after Agha, frustrated with what he felt was foot-dragging by the city over his proposed downtown hotel project, put it up for sale a year ago.
Agha acquired the property at auction in 1995 with an eye toward razing the building and constructing a high-end hotel and conference center on the site at 542 Lighthouse Ave.
He’ll likely sell it if he gets the permits. Hope he loses.
Missing P.G. Man Found Dead In Pebble Beach
The remains of John Hauswirth, an 82-year-old Pacific Grove man who went missing in March, were found Friday in Pebble Beach by four Stevenson School students walking through the woods.
Hauswirth, who suffered from dementia, disappeared March 11. His wife told police he wandered away while the two were doing yard work on a rental property on Euclid Street in Monterey, about six miles from where the remains were found.
Monarch Population Falls Faster Than Tree Branches
Volunteers count the monarchs each year at nine sites in the county. The Monarch Program, a research organization based in San Diego that collects the data, says that the numbers were down significantly compared with those recorded last year.
At one site in Big Sur, there was a third fewer butterflies. In Pacific Grove, there were 96 percent fewer butterflies seen this year than in 2008, according to the organization.
Two factors are responsible for sagging numbers of butterflies, Leong said. Fewer are coming to the region, and the local environment is becoming less hospitable to their needs.
Quit attracting tourists and go back to attracting nature. It can fix itself.
See Candy Cane Lane
Can they top this?
Tree Rules Falling?
the council heard a progress report on the city’s Beautification and Natural Resources Commission’s work toward modifying its tree ordinance.
Bennett said the proposed changes were reasonable, but “taken as a whole, they weaken the ordinance in favor of private property rights.”
Property owners, she said, have a responsibility to help the city preserve its urban forest.
Chief Engles Decides To Stay
In a written statement sent on Monday night, Engles said he and the Pacific Grove city manager, Thomas Frutchey, “discussed some of the past and present issues that have plagued us and I believe he will do everything in his power to support and provide the police department with the resources we need to serve the citizens of Pacific Grove.”