Category Archives: Pacific Grove

Daniel Howland Hall Sentenced To Prison

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For another P.G. domestic attack.

Judge Pamela Butler sentenced Daniel Howland Hall, 25, to four years and four months  behind bars after he pleaded no contest, which amounts to a guilty plea, to false imprisonment by violence when hephysically abused his girlfriend July 30, 2024, at the unidentified woman ‘s home in Pacific Grove.

“When Jane Doe separated herself from Hall, he went into her bedroom, took her phone away, and proceeded to hold her down and strangle her for approximately one minute,” the district attorney’s office explained this week.

At the time of last year’s crime against his girlfriend, Hall was on felony probation for kidnapping an ex-girlfriend, identified by prosecutors as Jane Doe 2, on June 30, 2023.

Daniel Howland Hall Sentenced To Prison

Riley Elvin Gets Prison

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Just 2 years.

Riley Elvin

Riley Elvin, 29, was arrested by Monterey Police Nov. 30, 2024, at El Estero Park in Monterey after he was caught fondling himself He was subsequently charged with lewd conduct, but prosecutors and Elvin’s attorney last month reached an agreement that allowed Elvin to plead guilty to violating his felony probation terms in exchange for dismissal of the misdemeanor lewd conduct case. He was on probation for threatening the school principal in November 2023 after trespassing onto school grounds.

Elvin’s criminal history in Monterey County goes back to 2014. A quick search of his name on the Monterey County Superior Court database shows five pages of cases (each page contains 10 cases), most of them criminal, that he’s been charged with in the last 11 years,

Riley Elvin Gets Prison

P.G. Hit And Run Suspect Caught

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This is what Flock cameras are for.

Icaro Fernandes Araujo

A Marina man who police say struck a 14-year-old boy with his car in Pacific Grove and fled the scene last weekend was arrested the next day, thanks to technology and several vigilant citizens.
Pacific Grove Police said that on Jan. 25 the teenager, a student at P.G. Middle School, was running southbound across Lighthouse Avenue at Alder Street when 36-year-old Toyota Prius driver Icaro Fernandes Araujo struck him and left the scene.

“The day after the accident, the suspect’s vehicle was seen driving through the City of Pacific Grove,” P.G. Police said. A citizen “got the suspect vehicle’s license plate  number and provided it to the police department.”

Investigators checked the city’s Flock camera system, which captures images of license plates of vehicles entering and leaving the city, and confirmed that a car with the same plate had been in P.G. around the time of the hit-and-run.

P.G. Hit And Run Suspect Caught

Do The Fires In L.A. Teach Us Anything?

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Poor forest management is not just in the Sierras or Southern California.

At the Jan. 16 Pacific Grove City Council meeting, citizen Kevin Hanley made a plea to Councilmembers to reduce the amount of fuel load — dead dry brush, downed trees, etc. — in George Washington Park, a 20-acre, thickly wooded greenspace. Doing so, Hanley said, would reduce the chances of a fire spreading to nearby houses.

Kevin is not wrong. Here’s a few snapshots of Washington Park just feet from houses. C’mon eco freaks and tree huggers, it’s a park so treat it like one.

GW Park Fuel 1 GW Park Fuel 2 GW Park Fuel 3

 

Do The Fires In L.A. Teach Us Anything?

Parklet Replacement Done

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Now how will the sidewalk dining establishments ruin it with carnival lights, patio heaters and wind blocks?

Among the improvements, wooden parklets were removed; the intersection was excavated and repaved; curbs, gutters, sidewalks, crosswalks, and curb ramps were reconstructed and the sidewalks were widened.

For safety, new metal picket fencing for outdoor seating was installed, trees were added, light poles and street signs were relocated, and pavement markings were updated.

Parklet Replacement Done

No Cakewalk For Council Seat

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Not even a coin flip to fill resigning Debbie Beck’s chair.

 

The city’s charter allows for the mayor to choose a new councilmember, but newly elected Mayor Nick Smith wisely declined, instead saying that he wanted a majority of the council to choose from a field of applicants.

The applicants include some with previous city experience, including two current members of the Planning Commission (Ross Davison and Donald Murphy), a former councilmember (Cynthia Garfield), the chair of the P.G. Architectural Review Board (Anna Bornstein) and a member of the Economic Development Commission (Michael Gibbs).

The remaining three citizens who applied include a man with an extensive background in the federal government (Melvin Dubee), an entrepreneur with a law degree (Jennifer Kelly) and a software engineer and community volunteer deeply concerned about climate change (Eugene Loh).

No Cakewalk For Council Seat

Attention Tourists – Dangerous Dogs At Large

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Caledonia bite reported to be a “terrier mix”, most likely a pit bull.

On Dec. 23, the Swedish tourist, who has not been identified, was jogging on a sidewalk on the 100 block of Caledonia Avenue when a dog, which was leashed, bit her, according to her friend, who detailed the attack in a social media post last week. “She needed an ambulance ride to the emergency room to receive almost two dozen stitches and emergency care for blood loss,” LB Burnett reported the day of the attack.

Also on Dec. 23, but a few hours later, another dog bite occurred on the 200 block of Grove Acre, but not as severe as the first. “A border collie was able to get out of an apartment window and bite the victim, who was walking her dogs by the apartment,” Anderson explained. “The victim was treated by the fire department and released.

Attention Tourists – Dangerous Dogs At Large

So Cal Consultants Hired To Roll Up Weed Permits

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City manager Matt Mogensen hired the consultants for $24K. Two years sales taxes on PG Weed might cover the fee, eh?

Butterfly Weed

The initial term of the contract with HdL is expected to be less than $24,000 through December 2026. “Consultant fees to the city will only be charged for the hours necessary to finalize the application process and establish the user fees,” according to a report by Mogensen presented to the council at its Dec. 18 meeting.
“The user fees will cover all other costs associated with the consultant’s work and will be charged to the applicant,” the report said. After voter approval of a pot shop, the council directed city officials to create a licensing program to allow the operation of a retail storefront. A cannabis business must first obtain a license to operate from the city before getting a use permit.

Citizens Inge Lorentzen Daumer and Mike Gibbs opposed hiring HdL, with Gibbs, a member of the city’s Economic Development Commission, saying he believed the company’s services were “particularly poor,” while Daumer said she had “never been a fan” of the consulting firm. The city council did not entertain their concerns.

So Cal Consultants Hired To Roll Up Weed Permits

Riley Elvin Still Being Lewd And Offensive

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Riley Elvin

Same person that trespassed P.G. High and the middle school, threatened to kill the high school principal. This guy has a long list of criminal charges. Recommend a long stay in jail but Judge Pamela Butler gave him probation last month.

“On Nov. 30, the crime of engaging in lewd conduct in violation of PC647(a), a misdemeanor, was committed by Riley Fitzgerald Elvin, in that Elvin did unlawfully engage in lewd and dissolute conduct in a public place and in a place open to the public and exposed to public view,”

Riley Elvin Still Being Lewd And Offensive