Like any fries with that?
An employee was arrested Saturday on suspicion of stealing $1,800 from a McDonald’s restaurant in Pacific Grove business, police said.
Police said Veronica Antoinette Smith, 28, was taken into custody after police observed her driving in the city of Seaside.
The Pacific Grove Police Department is reporting an increase in coyote activity in Pacific Grove.
In the past several weeks, people have reported a number of coyote sightings and most recently coyotes attacked and killed a dear in the 600 block of Balboa, police said.
According to police, coyotes are prominent in the Central Coast region and it’s important to remember the following:
Do not feed coyotes.
Eliminate sources of water, particularly in dry times of the year.
Secure garbage containers.
Feed pets indoors whenever possible and pick up leftovers if feeding outdoors.
So many free meals – open dumpsters everywhere!
Fandangos Restaurant
Coyotes Must Read This Site – Come For Free Meals
Before that sales tax increase goes into effect. Is there any place in P.G. to buy something (that’s not ‘art’ or rusty garden decor)?
The sales tax rate in Pacifier Grove will increase by a full percent to 8.25 percent effective Oct. 1, according to the state Board of Equalization. City voters approved the sales tax hike in the June primary election.
Barring a successful appeal, John Kenney will die in prison for murdering neighbors Mel and Elizabeth Grimes in a dispute over a boulder and a 10-foot by 4-foot patch of dirt.
After nearly three days of deliberations, a jury Wednesday found the 74-year-old petroleum physicist guilty of first-degree murder for the fatal shooting of Elizabeth Grimes, 55, and second-degree murder for the slaying of her 58-year-old husband, well-known local defense attorney Mel Grimes.
Loosin’ Susan didn’t remember this
Monterey Herald 9/03/08
Pacific Grove attorney Susan Goldbeck testified that she did not remember whether she asked Kenney if he owned a gun before indicating on a court document that he didn’t.
Killer Kenney didn’t remember
Salinas Californian 8/30/08
Prosecutor Berkley Brannon repeatedly questioned him Friday about the gun used in the killings, a gun which was illegal for Kenney to possess. He had signed a 2005 restraining order against the Grimeses that declared he did not own or have access to any firearms.
Kenney told the court he didn’t remember that element of the document. “It was filled out entirely by Susan Goldbeck,” he testified, referring to his lawyer. “I just signed it.”
Loosin’ Susan filled out the statement – is he lying or she’s lying for him?
Monterey Herald 9/2/08
Pacific Grove attorney Susan Goldbeck testified this morning that she did not remember whether she asked murder defendant John Kenney if he owned a gun before indicating on a court document that he didn’t.
She agreed that Kenney signed the sworn document, filed as he and his neighbors, filed for mutual restraining orders in the summer of 2005.
Loosin’ Susan & Killer Kenney remember all this though
Carmel Pine Cone 9/5/08
Pacific Grove City Council candidate Susan Goldbeck took the stand as well, recounting Kenney’s stories about harassing phone calls in the middle of the night and people rattling his doors, which he believed were the Grimeses’ doing. According to Goldbeck, Kenney felt “alone and vulnerable,” especially after an incident in 2005 with Elizabeth Grimes that left him with a concussion.
Susan Goldbeck’s “friend”
Oh – they are both friends….
KION 9/02/08
Susan Goldbeck, a friend of Kenney’s who also happens to be an attorney also testified that she had prepared two requests for two restraining orders against the Grimes’ on Kenney’s behalf
One attorney said not to get into a confrontaion
Monterey Herald 9/3/08
An attorney testified Tuesday that he warned murder defendant John Kenney in 2006 that he should avoid confrontation with neighbors Mel and Elizabeth Grimes and that “you can’t shoot somebody just because they’re on your property.”
Nick Cvietkovich said the conversation occurred while he and Kenney were on the way to a meeting with Sheriff Mike Kanalakis about Kenney’s plans to use a boulder to block the Grimeses’ access to a disputed patch of land on their shared driveway.
Loosin Susan gave the advice to trigger a confrontation?
Monterey Herald – 8/28/08
John Kenney took the stand in his own defense this morning after listening stoically to enhanced 911 recordings of him fatally shooting neighbors Mel and Elizabeth Grimes.
In an action that triggered the fatal encounter, Kenney said he placed a boulder on a disputed piece of land on the advice of three attorneys, including former Pacific Grove City Councilwoman Susan Goldbeck.
Kenney’s security expert was none other than the former Marina City Councilman John Morrison, “who resigned in April 2007 from the Marina council after admitting he tried to pull strings to get a private security contract.”
, don’t vote for Loosin’ Susan.
A mountain lion has been spotted several times in Pacific Grove, police said.
On Thursday night, at 9:50 p.m. a mountain lion was reportedly seen at Grove Acre and Lighthouse Avenue. Earlier that day at 5:30 a.m. a mountain lion was seen in the 1100 block of Lighthouse, police said.
$1,500 Reward.(see full article)
On June 1, a Toyota Land Cruiser was stolen from a residence in the Laureles Grade area.
The suspects also used the stolen credit cards at a gas station in Mid Valley, the Savemart in Pacific Grove, and the 7-11 and Longs Drugs at Natividad and Boronda roads in Salinas.
To support cocaine habits? The next time you get a letter from skool asking for permission to drug test your children, say “only if the faculty goes first…”
Greenfield police and officials from the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office raided the north Salinas home of Raul Herrera-Arteaga on Tuesday morning, removing computers, animals and other items. When he returned to his home Tuesday afternoon, police said they found two bags of cocaine in his right sock and arrested him on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance.
Herrera was lodged at Monterey County Jail with bail set at $10,000.
Organizers of “BARK Obama 08,” a 10K walk-a-thon to benefit a local animal welfare organization and the Obama ’08 Campaign, encourage all animal lovers, walkers and Obama supporters to join together for a fun morning walk this weekend . . . (from the) Monterey Bay Aquarium and will follow the coastline to Asilomar Beach
Barack Hussein Obama quotes:
“I can’t keep Farrakhan from supporting me”
“I can no more disown Rev. Wright than I can disown my grandmother”
“My grandmother was a Typical White Person”
“I don’t want my daughters punished with babies”
“The campaign is like the Bataan Death March”
“they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion”
Offensive to whites, Jews, mothers, war survivors. Dogs? Nope, has not offended dogs. yet
Get to tha choppa!
Tsunami Awareness Week is a time to remember and a time to prepare. In March 1964, an earth-quake off the coast of Alaska generated a tsunami along the northern California coast that killed more than a dozen Del Norte County residents.
Are P.G.’s bank tellers better than Monterey’s?
Pacific Grove police have arrested two men they believe tried to cash stolen checks.
Scott Ednie and Travis Chappell, who police say is on parole, were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of burglary, forgery, possession of stolen property, and theft.
According to police, Ednie and Chappell tried to cash checks they had stolen on March 5 at a Wells Fargo Bank in Pacific Grove. They successfully cashed a check first in Monterey, police said, but their second attempt in Pacific Grove prompted a bank teller to call police.