The Monterey County District Attorney’s Office filed an indecent exposure charge Friday against recently retired Pacific Grove police Capt. Bill Kennedy.
Chief Assistant District Attorney Terry Spitz said the misdemeanor charge stemmed from an incident in which Kennedy, 57, allegedly exposed himself in the parking lot of The Crossroads Shopping Village in Carmel on Aug. 10.
Spitz would not provide additional details but other law enforcement officials said two women called the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office that day to report a man masturbating in the parking lot. The man was gone when deputies arrived, but the women reportedly provided the license number of the man’s car. Kennedy was questioned later at his home in Pacific Grove.
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Morrie Fisher, Mayor With A Badge
Creepy old guy tries to pick up women using a tin star.
Former police chief Scott Miller says he had several pointed discussions with city manager Hubbard over the impropriety of providing the mayor and council with badges, and refused to place the badge order, leaving Hubbard to do so himself.
In Miller’s view, there is no practical reason for politicians and other non-police to have badges. He says that having a badge, particularly in a wallet, is only designed to get out of tickets or otherwise attempt to influence law enforcement officials to “give them a break because of the badge.”
Hubbard told Miller the justification for the mayor and council members to have badges was in the event of a natural disaster, where they were outside of the city limits and the city had been cut off from the outside world, council members could use the badges to influence police to let them through the perimeter.
On Monday, July 14th, there was apparently a natural disaster in the making at the Mission Ranch restaurant and bar in Carmel.
A woman, who will be identified as Sandy, was sitting at the bar waiting for a table. While waiting, she and her three female friends were contacted by an individual whom she characterized as an older gentleman sitting alone at the bar. He initiated a conversation with them, and almost immediately identified himself as the mayor of Pacific Grove. When Sandy and her friends expressed some skepticism, she said the man, in order to prove his point, pulled a wallet out of his pocket, flipped it open, and said, “No, really, here’s my badge.” Sandy said the badge looked to be a police badge and was contained in a leather wallet.
After returning his badge to his pocket, Fisher told Sandy that he likes to come to the Mission Ranch to drink because PG is basically a “dry” city. He also added that he likes to drive home through Pebble Beach to avoid the police on the highway. Their conversation ended when the ladies were seated at their table for dinner. Sandy characterized Fisher as a friendly, braggadocio type character with a badge.
So, the first-known official act of mayor Fisher and his new police-style badge was an attempt to impress four ladies in a bar in Carmel.
Court Rules In Favor Of Police Chief In Ramey Case
No donuts for Rhonda
Former parking enforcement officer Rhonda Ramey had sued the city, Hubbard, and Chief Miller on the grounds that her termination in January 2001 had been based on retaliatory motives for a harassment claim she had filed against her supervisors in late 1999.
Chief Miller testified that he fired Ramey for misappropriating two Volkswagen vehicles that she later converted to her own use, and for giving additional vehicles and extra business to a tow company operator named Kevin Shook. Miller said Ramey gave Shook a Mercedes Benz sedan and a Toyota van without properly processing the vehicles, which Shook subsequently sold for a profit. Official DMV documents associated with the Mercedes transaction had been forged, according to testimony in the trial.
Goldbeck Fires Letter To D.A. In Police Chief Firing
Cronies in Love. Fisher & Schenk
The letter, which was addressed to Terry Spitz in the Monterey County DA’s office, presented Goldbeck’s case for what she believes is a conspiracy orchestrated by Mayor Morrie Fisher to get rid of the chief so that his friend, Sergeant Richard Cox, could move up in the department.
Goldbeck also accused (Ron) Schenk of having “at least two meetings” with Cox at Schenk’s home while the officer was on duty. Later in the council meeting, Schenk admitted to being a friend of Cox, but claimed that the meetings were related to their positions on the board of their church and dealt with church business.
Developer Wants To Replace Holmans With Nine Story Hotel
Nadir is nuts. 600 hotel rooms added to our infrastructure is ridiculous.
At the January 28th meeting of the Economic Advisory Committee, Nader Agha (who owns the buildings on the downtown block bordered by Lighthouse, Grand, Central, and Fountain avenues) proposed a plan that includes a six-story hotel with 600 rooms for the front of the lot. The design incorporates Victorian era, Mission, and “Pacific Grove style” architecture.
There would be three additional stories of condominiums on top of this structure. Behind the hotel would be a two-story parking structure and 60,000 square feet of commercial space.
Survey Shows Grove Market Has The Highest Price In Town
Convenience is what you pay for.
The final result shows that Grove Market is the most expensive, with Nob Hill costing 12% less, Albertson’s at 10% less than Grove Market, and Safeway a whopping 21% less than Grove Market.
Protesters Line Up To Keep Public Comments
Meetings extending to the late night hours must be cutting into Morrie’s happy hour.
Protesters rallied outside Pacific Grove City Hall before the opening of the January 15, 2003 city council meeting. Nineteen citizens spoke on the issue, all opposed to Mayor Morris C. Fisher’s recommendation to streamline meetings by moving oral communications to the end of the agenda.
“This isn’t, to me, a forum for someone to show a cartoon.” For a few other people we need to put a mirror outside and talk to the mirror.” Jim Costello:
Ocean View Boulevard Shooting Death
“A Seaside man was killed late Thursday night near Cannery Row in what police say may have been an attempted robbery or carjacking carried out by two men and a woman who remained at large Friday.
Just before midnight, 27-year-old Ignacio Sanchez and a 19-year-old woman were sitting in Sanchez’s black Honda Civic at a stop sign at Eardley Avenue and Ocean View Boulevard in Pacific Grove. They had just returned to the car after viewing the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s shark holding tanks, said Pacific Grove police Cpl. Darrin Smolinski. Police would not identify the young woman.”
It was not his wife.
Now calling it a carjacking, an arrest was made:
A 20-year-old Salinas man has been arrested for last week’s killing of a Seaside man near Cannery Row. Police say Anthony Joel Estrada was the triggerman in a botched carjacking that resulted in the shooting death of Ignacio Sanchez.
Pacific Grove police said Estrada was arrested early Monday at an apartment at 44 Natividad Road in Salinas with help from the Salinas Police Department’s Violence Suppression Unit. His two accomplices apparently were still being sought Tuesday.
P.G. Man Booby Traps Property With Shotgun
People who live around 44-year-old Kevin Jeffrey Smythe say they rarely saw him but heard his hammering, sawing and an occasional alarm. He lived in one of the four apartments he was renovating for his parents at 306 18th St., and whose entrances he had barricaded with wrought-iron gates and No Trespassing signs.
Authorities say he also booby-trapped the walkway leading to his own apartment: a spring that would fire a shotgun blank when anyone hit a trip wire.”
Recreation Trail Attackers Jesse Carson & Jason Blad
Marine Lance Cpl. Carson, a Russian-language student at the prestigious Defense Language Institute in Monterey, was arrested March 15 after allegedly admitting that he and Pvt. Jason Blad, 21, were responsible for the November attack that nearly drained the life from a 20-year-old woman on the Pacific Grove Recreation Trail.
Pacific Grove police said shortly after the arrest that the young Marines apparently just wanted to kill someone, anyone, and had their sights on other targets as well. Though authorities say Carson spelled it all out in a journal found near his barracks bunk, details are being kept under wraps by a court-imposed gag order.
“The Jesse Clarke that we know is very talented and is an all-around intelligent and stable person,” said Robin Morris, his former journalism teacher at Richland High School. On a Web site profile of himself, Carson listed Morris as the teacher who has most influenced his life.
Jesse Carson
There are other indications that both defendants had been involved in fantasy games.
A former classmate and friend of Jason Blad’s at Spencerport High School in Spencerport, N.Y., said his schoolmate had often engaged in the games at the time and tried to talk others into joining. That man also spoke on condition of anonymity, saying he did not want to be drawn into the investigation.
“Jason was very big into role-playing games,” he said. “All the time I was friends with him, he tried to get me into that type of scene. Whether it was Dungeons and Dragons or superhero-type games, Jason was always trying to get me to play them with him.
“My parents, knowing all too well what those types of games have led to, told me never to play them and not to get involved with him.”
He said Blad was shy and reclusive, and came from a relatively poor family. Other students would tease him for such things as wearing clothes from the Salvation Army. Eventually, the two boys drifted apart, and Blad started doing “crazy (things) like chasing behind the school bus in the afternoons, screaming like a madman.”