More Phone Scams Hit P.G.

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Last Month P.G. residents were getting calls saying they had won a sweepstakes and to send “processing fees”. This month they are getting calls again, now from a phony government agent that is again asking for processing fees. Why is it that P.G. is always the target? Do the thieves go out and look for areas of rich white Democrats?

Pacific Grove Police are warning resident to beware of a telephone scam that has already hit some residents of the Central Coast. Pacific Grove Police commander, Tom Uretsky, says the call starts with a caller clamming to be an agent with the U.S. Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security. The “Agent” then tells the victim that they have received cash funds from the arrest of seven people who were attempting to defraud others.

The “Agent” then explains that they would like to send out a certified cashiers check to the victim that was recovered in his/her name for 8.5 million dollars. The scammer then informs the victim that he/she needs to pay a recovery fee of $1,450.00 made payable to the Merchant Bank of Jamaica. The scammer tells the victim that they need to wire or send a money gram to an address overseas to Jamaica.

More Phone Scams Hit P.G.

Meters To Feat

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Moe – you can drive the shoppers away, but the owners and employees will still be there, taking up all the choice parking. Get busy and woo some commerce to the town that people will flock to meters or no meters.

1/8/08, Town Hall meeting agenda

James Becklenberg, city director of management and budget, said the budget needs to be pared by $2.6 million to keep the city solvent. Its financial reserves in December were down to $800,000, and the city should maintain a reserve of $2.6 million to cover emergencies.

Becklenberg has proposed expanding parking meters on Central Avenue, Ocean View Boulevard, Lovers Point and city parking lots in the downtown area, reaping an estimated $495,000 in extra revenue, and discontinuing the annual card rate at the golf course, which Becklenberg said would add $40,000 this fiscal year and $190,000 during the 2008-09 fiscal year. He also suggested increasing permit and planning fees.

But the Chamber-Of_Moe begs:

At 6 p.m. on Jan. 23, the Pacific Grove City Council will consider installation of parking meters or pay stations downtown and on Central Avenue. Meters increase the cost of doing business, create an inconvenience to shoppers and drive customers to free parking destinations. More important, meters affect adjacent residential neighborhoods and change the character of the town. Small businesses have to compete with the big-box operations, corporate shopping centers and the Internet, where there are no obstacles such as meters.

No Meters

Meters To Feat

Show Kristin Hughes Some Potential Pain

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On the day the U.S. Supreme Court heard lawyers argue over the potential pain caused by the drug cocktail used in lethal injections, McMahan was thinking about the way her daughter died.

On Sept. 7, 1989, 31-year-old Kim Hickman was moving out of her Pacific Grove apartment when she was attacked and sexually assaulted by Kristin William Hughes, then 28.

At Hughes’ trial the next year, McMahan suffered through evidence showing that her “absolutely vibrant, beautiful daughter” survived 11 stabs to the chest and neck and died only after Hughes strangled her with his hands and suspenders.

Nineteen years – too long.

Show Kristin Hughes Some Potential Pain

Nature’s Fury

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Clouds And Waves

Biggest northern storm to pass through in a long time. Many are still without electricity. LHAcom’s estate was eerily quiet without the hummings of machinery, electronics and other distractions. Totally hated it. Though it did not keep the cement-obsessed neighbors with gas powered leaf blowers away. Guess they needed something to occupy themselves with. How did we stay sane? Think camping.

Propane camp stove & lanterns. Those small propane bottles are 2 pounds when full, 1 pound when empty. Postal scale told me so. Don’t wait until dark to find them. Get them out before you need to read the labels.

Ground coffee. After a fling with whole bean coffee and a preference for French roast, no powered coffee mill could keep up. I now grind it at the store, and use it within a week. With that and the above stove I had coffee in the blackout.

Flashlights. I keep several in a picnic basket by the fireplace.

Candles. Be extra careful. Don’t leave a candle alone in any room.

Radios. Recommend the GE Superradio series. It is a sensitive radio with an old fashioned analog tuner. That means it can hear many distant stations and the batteries last a long time. Listen to KPIG FM 105.7 or KSCO AM 1080. There is little in the way of public information on Monterey’s local stations. There’s also a police scanner to snoop for hints of what those sirens a block away are, ours is a Radio Shack Pro97.

Cell phone. Call your loved ones, see if they are ok.

That’s about it. It’s not the maniac with the 10,000 watt gas generator and satellite phone, but it’s enough to get by with and not have to maintain.

Some pictures taken Sunday afternoon.

Broken poles in beach tract. Never touch low or downed wires.
Broken Pole 1 Broken Pole 4 Broken Pole 3 Broken Pole 2

Falling pine tree cuts through middle of house. (No one was hurt)
Tree On House 2 Tree On House 1

Tree At 60 Degree

Breaker Snack Hut

Trees Downroad Closed

Add to the storm some exceptionally high tides and there was evidence of waves breaking over Ocean View Boulevard.

Kelp on Road

Waves flipped the ice plant neatly combed over like JW.
Iceplant Combed

Surf And Turf!
Kelp and grass

Crespi Pond now looks like a Monterey Bay Aquarium kelp exhibit.
Crespi Pond Seaweed Crespi Pond Seaweed2

Men’s Tee, Ladies Tee and Hermit Crab Tee
Kelp tee

The Fog Horn turnout was full of seaweed washed up by waves.
Kelp at Fog Horn1 Kelp at Fog Horn4 Kelp at Fog Horn3 Kelp at Fog Horn2

Nature’s Fury

Moth Spraying Complaints To Be Presented

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And who better to complain than our own David Dilworth.

Dilworth Warning

The report’s authors acknowledge that an unknown number of the complaints may be duplicates because several agencies collected the information. But the report also suggests that many residents with symptoms have not reported them.

David Dilworth, executive director of HOPE, said the groups plan to present the nearly 200-page report to legislators Tuesday.

Will they include all the reports that were called in by fakers the day after the scheduled spraying was called off?

Moth Spraying Complaints To Be Presented

New Monterey Police Blotter – December 2007

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Still lots of graffiti reports. Looks like the gangs have moved in for good . .

12/2/07 Lighthouse Television & Video 400 block of Lighthouse Ave. reports unknown to have vandalized (graffiti) their wall.

12/2/07 Citizen reports unknown to have vandalized her vehicle in the 1800 block of David Ave.

12/3/07 Citizen reports the theft of construction tools while working in the 2000 block David.

12/4/07 MPD towed a 82′ tan “Coleman” trailer that was parked at 1600 block of David for expired registration over 6 months.

12/4/07 Citizen 500 block of Belden, reports an individual to have struck his parked vehicle while conducting a parking maneuver.

12/5/07 BARAJAS, JANET was cited for driving on a suspended license and speeding at Del Monte and El Estero.

12/5/07 Citizen reports unknown to have smashed the front windshield of her silver 02′ Ford while parked in the rear parking lot of the Sardine Factory.

12/6/07 Graffiti was found spray painted on a rock along the recreation trail south of Drake.

12/7/07 PAHALAD, RAJIV was arrested for Felony DUI after colliding with a light pole in the center median of Lighthouse just south of Foam. Passenger severely injured.

12/7/07 Traffic accident versus a parked vehicle in the 600 block of lighthouse.

12/7/07 Citizen reports her cat was attacked by two dogs in the 600 block of Lily.

12/8/07 Traffic accident versus a parked vehicle in the 100 block of Lighthouse.

12/9/07 MPD aided in the water rescue at 32 Cannery Row

12/9/07 Citizen reports graffiti to a utility box at 400 block of Foam.

12/9/07 Citizen reports graffiti to two utility boxes along the north wall of the 400 block of Lighthouse.

12/10/07 Mutual combat in the 600 block of Lighthouse.

12/10/07 TURNBEAUGH, ADAM was arrested for public intoxication in the 700 block of Irving.

12/11/07 Citizen reported an unknown substance, possibly fiberglass resin, splattered on her vehicle while parked at 600 block of Lighthouse.

12/11/07 JEWETT,DANIEL was cited for possession of an open container of alcohol at Prescott & Lighthouse.

12/11/07 Citizen reports unknown to have filled the gas tank of her tan, 1997 Ford F150 pickup, with sand or sugar, while parked in the 1700 block of David.

12/12/07 Monterey Public Works reports, “Tagging” on the signal boxes at Lighthouse and McClellan.

12/14/07 Citizen reports another citizen to have struck her vehicle at Cannery Row and Hoffman.

12/15/07 Citizen reports unknown to have hit his vehicle and leave the scene at Lighthouse and Drake.

12/15/07 JEWETT, DANIEL was cited for an open container at Prescott and Lighthouse.

12/15/07 JEWETT, DANIEL was cited for possession/drinking an open alcoholic beverage in public in the area of Lighthouse and Prescott.

12/16/07 Citizen reports unknown to have burglarized her white vehicle on Hoffman, E of Hawthorne.

12/17/07 Citizen 300 block of Belden reports the theft of his set of golf clubs from his unlocked vehicle.

12/18/07 Citizen 2300 block of Prescott reports seeing a prowler outside his residence. Suspect is described as a white male adult 5-9, brown hair, with dark colored clothes.

12/23/07 Citizen reports a burglary of his 1999 Toyota Tacoma Truck in the 500 block of Irving.

12/24/07 Citizen fell and injured herself in the 800 block of Cannery Row.

12/27/07 JEWETT, DANIEL was cited for open container of alcohol in public at Prescott and Lighthouse.

12/28/07 Male juvenile was arrested in the 400 block of Cannery Row for vandalizing (spray paint graffiti).

12/29/07 Citizen 2000 block of Withers reports unknown to have stolen three bicycles from his carport.

12/30/07 Citizen was the victim of a fall in the 400 block of Cannery Row.

12/31/07 Citizen reports losing his wallet in the 800 block of Cannery Row.

12/31/07 Citizen reports unknown to have entered his unlocked vehicle while parked in the 700 block of Lighthouse.

New Monterey Police Blotter – December 2007