Category Archives: Pebble Beach

Stuart Elder Charges Soon?

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TV Stations’s Jon replies with an update after the question is brought up in their “Ask Jon:” Feature.

The CHP tells me their reconstruction investigation has been completed. It’s very extensive and takes time to crime scene investigation. The report is currently being written and I’m told that report is over 75 pages long and should be done in the next two weeks. They’ll bring it to the DA’s office and brief them on their findings. The DA’s office will review the report and file any applicable charges and that may take another week or so.

Stuart Elder Charges Soon?

Fatal Accident Driver’s Blood Test “not inconsistent with the charges.”

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Plus gleening evidence from computers in both cars.

Chief Assistant District Attorney Terry Spitz said prosecutor Ed Hazel was expected to file charges on Friday or early next week against Pacific Grove builder Stuart Elder, who was arrested on charges of vehiclular manslaughter while under the influence.

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Elder’s attorney, Paul Nathan Puri, said Elder “flatly denies he was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the accident.”

But Spitz said Thursday that Elder’s final blood toxicology reports are “not inconsistent with the charges.”

Fatal Accident Driver’s Blood Test “not inconsistent with the charges.”

CHP Has Cause To Conclude That Stuart Elder Was Drunk

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Sizing up to be a quite a case. Lawyers now accusing news of yellow journalism

On Monday, Puri issued a statement denying the allegations and making Elder out to be a concerned man who took care of his friend in the crash’s aftermath and is mourning the deaths he caused.

He said Elder “will be vindicated in a court of law.”

But California Highway Patrol public information officer Bob Lehman said the officers — who are highly trained in accident investigation and determining whether a driver is under the influence of alcohol or drugs — had cause to conclude Elder was drunk, though he wouldn’t go into details. He also noted the CHP is the top echelon when it comes to skills, training, technique and information regarding DUI investigations.

CHP Has Cause To Conclude That Stuart Elder Was Drunk

Stuart Elder Will Be Vindicated

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Says lawyer. The two ladies that died in the accident were former owners of Stone’s Pet Shop, a P.G. institution.

Witnesses said Elder was speeding and weaving between lanes while he was driving southbound on Sloat Road away from the Inn at Spanish Bay.

But Elder’s San Francisco-based defense attorney, Paul Nathan Puri, said Elder was not intoxicated and was not on his way home from the posh Pebble Beach Food & Wine festival or any related after-parties.

Puri also accused KSBW, other local media and law enforcement of “colluding in sensationalist yellow journalism and debased character assassination for their mutual profit and gain.”

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“Stuart Elder will be vindicated in a court of law,” Puri said.

Stuart Elder Will Be Vindicated

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Elder Not DUI In Fatal Accident – Says Attorney

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Lawyer tells about Stuart Elder’s heroics for his passenger.

An attorney for a Pacific Grove luxury home builder involved in an April 7 collision that left two Pebble Beach women dead and another woman seriously injured issued a statement Monday saying his client was not under the influence of alcohol when the accident occurred.

The statement, emailed to reporters from the office of San Francisco Bay Area defense attorney Paul Nathan Puri, said Stuart Elder, 30, expressed condolences for the deaths of Linda La Rone, 65, and Sharon Daly, 72. They formerly owned a local pet store.

Puri described his law firm as a boutique practice that specializes in “defense against serious accusations and restoring the reputations of good people in their communities.

Elder Not DUI In Fatal Accident – Says Attorney

Former Owners Of Stones Pet Shop Killed In Accident

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Stones Pet Shop story – I would go there for Frontline to keep the cats flea free (living in PG with the forest wildlife all about even cats kept indoors would be host to fleas) I went to the counter where one of the ladies were and asked for Frontline. She would reply “for ???” and I would say “mountain lion”. Got a good chuckle since lions were being seen in in P.G. After that, every time I went for more pet flea control the running gag would come up.

A grisly collision in Pebble Beach on Sloat Road killed two Pebble Beach women Sunday night.

Stuart Elder, 30, of Pacific Grove, was heavily intoxicated when he crossed into oncoming traffic near Bird Rock Road, California Highway Patrol officers said. His 2009 black Cadillac sport utility vehicle crashed head-on into a Ford SUV.

On Thursday, the CHP released the identity of one woman killed in the wreck. Linda Larone, 65, of Pebble Beach, was a passenger in the Ford and died at the scene.

Friends identified the second woman who was driving the Ford as Sharon Daly, 72, of Pebble Beach. Larone and Daly were longtime partners and owned a pet shop together in Pacific Grove.

Former Owners Of Stones Pet Shop Killed In Accident

Annual Springtime News – Beaches Polluted

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Lovers Point Beach Sand

Six beaches in Carmel, Pebble Beach, Pacific Grove, and Monterey were placed under water hazard advisories Tuesday afternoon due to high bacteria levels found in samples taken from the ocean.

The public is urged to not have ocean water contact at the following six beaches:

Monterey Municipal Beach, Monterey
San Carlos Beach, Monterey
Lovers Point, Pacific Grove
Asilomar Beach at Sunset Drive, Pacific Grove
Spanish Bay, Pebble Beach
Carmel Beach at Ocean Avenue, Carmel

Annual Springtime News – Beaches Polluted

2 Dead In Pebble Beach Crash

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P.G. man charged with DUI.

A Pacific Grove man was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after a traffic collision Sunday in Pebble Beach killed two people in the other car.

They were in a 2005 Ford that collided head-on with a 2009 Cadillac driven by Stuart Elder, 30, of Pacific Grove, the CHP said.

The Cadillac was headed south on Sloat Road just north of Bird Rock Road about 7:30 p.m. when, for an unknown reason, it crossed over into the opposing lane and into the path of the Ford, the CHP said.

The victims in the Ford were dead at the scene, the CHP said.

2 Dead In Pebble Beach Crash

No One Arrested In Pebble Beach Vandalism

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Strange. Steal a bottle of gin and get pummeled and arrested. Steal from the golf course and damage the greens and get let go. Might be a ‘who ya know” situation.

Monterey County Sheriff’s Deputies say they were called out to the golf course around six, Thursday night, when employees said the kids destroyed portions of the greens and stole several golf course items.

Deputies began investigating and were led to one of the kids’ backyard, where they found all five juveniles responsible for the crime.

All five were cited and ticketed but no one was arrested.

No One Arrested In Pebble Beach Vandalism

Tree Trimmer Dies In Pebble Beach Accident

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Fall protection harness’ are required safety gear in boom trucks.

A 46-year-old Salinas man died Wednesday while he was at work trimming trees in Pebble Beach, the Monterey County Sheriff’s office said.

Carlos Amezcua was identified as the worker who died after he fell from a boom truck on Cortez Road at Rhonda Road, the Sheriff’s Office said.

Tree Trimmer Dies In Pebble Beach Accident