D.A.: No Death Penalty for Jacobo Ruelas

Posted on by

Now he is referred to as “A Soledad Father?” The sooner he becomes a “Soledad Prisoner” the better..

Prosecutors announced this morning they are no longer seeking the death penalty for Jacobo Ruelas, a Soledad father charged with the 1997 murder of Pacific Grove teenager Kristopher Olinger.

The brothers are charged with stabbing Olinger to death during a carjacking and robbery. The Monterey High School student’s body was found by a jogger near the Pacific Grove Recreation Trail the morning of Sept.. 19, 199

D.A.: No Death Penalty for Jacobo Ruelas

Smart Meter’s True Goal

Posted on by

Charge your more $$ when you use energy the most.

The first goal of the smart meter program is to reduce overall energy usage. “Tiered pricing,” currently in effect, means you are charged more per unit of electricity or gas if your household uses more than its monthly allotment. Under current rules, there’s no financial benefit for using power in the middle of the night instead of the middle of the day.

But before too long, you’ll be charged a much higher price for a kilowatt hour at noon than one at midnight. And that means you’ll want to lop off the tops of the bars on your energy usage charts at peak times of day, and move them to the evening — by doing laundry or washing dishes after 8 p.m., for example, or on the weekend.

“If peak demand could be reduced a mere 5 percent, the national savings on power plant construction, energy and transmission costs would amount to $3 billion per year,” Marshall said.

Smart Meter’s True Goal

Bicyclist Hits Child On Trail, Ditches

Posted on by

Carmel Pine Cone Police Blog

Instead of hollering “bike in the rear”, put the brakes on.

Pacific Grove: Subject reported he was riding his bicycle eastbound on the bike trail. Announced “Bike to the rear,” as he approached a group standing in his lane of travel. As he attempted to ride around the group, an 11-year-old girl ran into his path. He struck victim’s arm with his bike, and he fell off of the left side of the bike. He received scrapes along the left side of his body and forehead. The pedestrian was not injured, and she gave the same account of the incident as the cyclist. She said she became confused. Her mother was also present. The subject was treated by fire personnel on scene and elected not to go to the hospital via ambulance.

Bicyclist Hits Child On Trail, Ditches

No Marijuana Selling In Monterey

Posted on by

No Pot Club

Monterey medical marijuana patients’ dreams of a dispensary in their town went up in smoke Wednesday night, as City Council voted 3-2 to permanently ban dispensaries in all zones within city limits.

“I’m disappointed, but not surprised,” says Richard Rosen, the Salinas-based lawyer for MyCaregiver Cooperative, Inc., the now-defunct medical marijuana cooperative that was raided by city inspectors in February after allegedly violating a court order to stop dispensing pot. That case is still being tried in Monterey Superior Court.

No Marijuana Selling In Monterey

Fire Up The Feast Week, Pt 2

Posted on by

Blaze Damages House

A predawn fire damaged a Pacific Grove Edwardian house Wednesday.

The fire at 305 Cypress Ave. was reported at 3:30 a.m., said Monterey Fire Division Chief David Brown.

Nine engines, two ladder trucks and a respirator support unit responded, he said. Firefighters arrived to find flames coming from the second story.

The house was unoccupied, Brown said, and no one was injured fighting the blaze.

The fire appeared to originate in the basement and worked its way up through walls to the attic, gutting the rear portion of the house and causing smoke damage.


Fire Up The Feast Week, Pt 2

Fire Up The Feast Week, Pt 1

Posted on by

Bazooka Rocket Propelled Grenade Found

The Bomb Squad said an estate sale cleaning service found a 1940’s era Bazooka Rocket Propelled Grenade (M6A1) in a garage cabinet.

The Pacific Grove Police Department quickly blocked a two block stretch of 17 Mile Drive that was affected, to prevent any pedestrian or vehicle traffic. Evacuations of surrounding homes were also made.

This type of grenade contains approximately 3.5 pounds of high explosive.

This must be what I saw in a convoy of police/sheriff/CHP cars and the Sheriffs Bomb Squad truck entering the dump north of Marina.

Item was reported to be a M6 grenade.

Picture from Relics Of WarMM-0512-1
Fire Up The Feast Week, Pt 1

Recreation Trail Robbers Arrested

Posted on by

The recreation trail is always a dangerous place to be, can get robbed, assaulted or hit by a surrey.
Rec Trail Arrest

The man was walking about 10:45 p.m. near the northbound Lighthouse Avenue curve when he was attacked and robbed, police said.

The man suffered facial injuries, but declined medical aid. No suspects were found in the area.

About an hour later, a Monterey patrol officer made a traffic stop on a car in the 800 block of Del Monte Avenue. That led to the arrest of five people and discovery of stolen property from the robbery, police said.

Three of the five people were booked on charges of robbery, conspiracy and possession of stolen property, police said.

The suspects were identified as Jamarius Ballio and Chico Glover, both 18 from Seaside, and Sean Underwood, 18, of Marina.

Anjelika Ierome, 18, of Marina was booked on charges of violating probation and giving false information to police.

 

Recreation Trail Robbers Arrested

Smaller Motel Rooms For The Same High Price

Posted on by

You think some of the ancient motels would work to improve the quality instead of the quantity.

Sea Breeze Motel
Dumpster Sea Breeze Motel 071216

Last week, the City Council voted unanimously to place an amendment of Measure C on the Nov. 8 ballot. It would decrease required building setbacks, allow the addition of rooms through remodels that don’t increase the “footprint” of the existing building by reducing the the ratio of rooms to square footage to one per 1,000 square feet rather than the current one per 2,500 square feet.

Smaller Motel Rooms For The Same High Price

No New Fines For Providing Alcohol To Kids In P.G.

Posted on by

Would Kampe feel any different if he was ever affected by a underage intoxicated person?

Four of the council members, Alan Cohen, Robert Huitt, Rudy Fischer and Bill Kampe, took exception to a rider on the proposed new city law that would allow cost recovery “for any violation of the Pacific Grove Municipal Code.”

Kampe commented that no one spends their entire childhood to age 21 at all times in the company of an adult, including staying home, and called the original law “a lottery with a penalty instead of a prize.

No New Fines For Providing Alcohol To Kids In P.G.

New P.G. Budget Adds Hours To Library

Posted on by

Liberry

The city will go into the coming year offering longer library service hours and a school resource officer will again be assigned to Pacific Grove Unified School District, she said.

The city’s fiscal 2011-12 budget provides an additional $100,000 for the library. The money allows it to stay open 34 hours per week, Garcia said, compared to the current 24 hours.

The programs were made possible by budget improvements.

New P.G. Budget Adds Hours To Library