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

Ex Tree Posse Turned Seal Posse Responds To Losin’ Susan

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P.G. Newcomer Akeman has a new calling against humans – watching seals and blocking access to the beach.

Acheman Book

I may not know all the definitions of vigilante, but I believe Susan Goldbeck used the term erroneously in a guest commentary in Thursday’s Herald. She was concerned about efforts to protect harbor seals and the babies they have each spring on Pacific Grove beaches.

The city applied its policy this month when the first baby seal in known history was born at Lovers Point. After mom and pup were spotted on Sunday morning, city police asked Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary’s Bay Net docents to provide a human presence at Lovers Point. Public Works brought barricades and yellow tape; the Marine Mammal Center brought signs.

Ex Tree Posse Turned Seal Posse Responds To Losin’ Susan

PGPD: Bring Your Drugs To Us

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Bummer duude, it’s not a drug buy back program.

“The goal of the program is to allow citizens to deliver all of their unused, unwanted or expired medications to law enforcement officials who can in turn dispose of these controlled substances in a safe, secure and non-hazardous manner, potentially saving lives and protecting the ecosystem,” according to PGPD Cmdr. John Miller.

The program is anonymous, and medications may be dropped off in their original containers or deposited directly in the disposal bin. Liquid products should remain sealed.

PGPD: Bring Your Drugs To Us

Humans Or Seals, Who Is Allowed To Block Access To The Beach?

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The opposition is watching Losin’ Susan move the Seal Posse’s signs . .

It is curious the city of Pacific Grove, which appears to have a back door role in all this controversy, must have had a decided change of heart regarding marine mammals.

The city’s solution to keeping all marine mammals off Lovers Point Beach just a few years ago was to bang pots and pans to frighten them away. Now it seems we need to keep the public off the beaches if so much as one mother and pup venture into those areas.

Even Lovers Point Beach was recently closed after one mama seal appeared on the beach with her pup. It was mighty cute, yes, but the public was denied access to the beach and beach-related businesses were adversely affected.

Humans Or Seals, Who Is Allowed To Block Access To The Beach?

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

Edit 2/6/15

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P.G. Police, This Bad?

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PG Cop Car 1980s

P.G. can afford a kooky environmental manager but not a ‘substainable’ police force?

PGPD is in trouble

In my 24 years as a police officer with the Pacific Grove Police Department, I have never seen the staffing levels and employee morale so low. It all starts at the top.

Most able-bodied officers are looking for employment elsewhere. The officers are on a leaderless group exercise and the city is exploring ways to contract out the department.

Look at what eight months of contracting a police chief has resulted in: five officers and one civilian have left and more may go.

If the residents of Pacific Grove want to keep their officers on the street and keep their station open to the public, they have to be heard by city officials and the City Council, or it won’t be America’s last hometown for long.

Richard Sinclair Jr.
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P.G. Police, This Bad?

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

Bus Stops Hurting Business

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Traffic too. Now when a bus stops at one of those new jazzy stops it blocks the right lane.

Monterey-Salinas Transit began construction on the new Jazz line last June and for several months it closed lanes on Lighthouse Avenue. Carbone said it was a nightmare for his customers.

“There were a couple of days where I, personally, I cant speak for the other businesses, literally had two customers in my establishments,” he said. “Two people all day long.”

Carbone said he plans to fight to help all the businesses in the area. “They say it’s over and it’s not over. It’s over when I say it’s over,” he said.

Bus Stops Hurting Business

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