Tag Archives: Burglary

Theft Or Treat?

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Must be those Methodists, keeping us safe from pagan celebrations.

“They stole all my sister-in-law’s stuff out the back of their truck and tried ripping the decorations that were already up,” the woman said, adding that her boyfriend yelled at the thieves and they took off in a small dark colored sedan. “We’re pretty sure a truck was also involved.

We had one [reported] incident of Halloween decorations being stolen and vandalized on Oct. 27 in the 700 block of Hillcrest Ave.,” Pacific Grove Police Sgt. Brian Anderson said. “Skeletons were damaged and parts of them were stolen.” While some suggested that police check the city’s traffic surveillance system for vehicles that matched the description,  Anderson said police did not have a “sufficiently detailed description of the suspect vehicle to use our cameras.”

Theft Or Treat?

Dumb PGMS Burglars Lead Cops To Them By Bloody Trail

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At approximately 7:40 AM on July 17, 2025, Pacific Grove Police Officers responded to a report of a burglary that had occurred during the early morning hours at Pacific Grove Middle School, located at 835 Forest Avenue. Upon arrival, officers discovered signs of forced entry into the school’s cafeteria through a broken window.
The suspects—later identified as 23-year-old Gabriel Mario Guertin and 22-year-old Zachary Shelby Malone (residents of Pacific Grove) were arrested later that afternoon and charged with felony violations of California Penal Code Section 459 (Burglary) and Section 182 (Conspiracy).
Both Guertin and Malone have extensive prior arrest histories, and both were on active probation and/or supervised release. Guertin has been previously arrested for felony and misdemeanor domestic violence, false imprisonment, violations of probation, DUI, providing false information to a peace officer, and resisting or delaying an officer.
Malone’s history includes arrests for vandalism, DUI, resisting or delaying an officer, disorderly conduct, battery, loitering, child abuse, and criminal conspiracy. Notably, Malone had also been arrested just two days prior in connection with an unrelated battery investigation.

The investigation revealed that several money tills inside the cafeteria had been opened and ransacked, though no money was reported stolen. However, a large quantity of food and food products was found to be missing from a walk-in refrigerator. The officers later located the large quantity of food that was dropped near Hillcrest Avenue.

Dumb PGMS Burglars Lead Cops To Them By Bloody Trail

Spyglass Pro Shop Burglarized

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No name on the apprehended suspect.

“They had video surveillance of the incident,” Rosas said, and from that, investigators were able to identify the two people who had broken into the shop. The damage the duo caused totaled around $3,100, but they didn’t manage to steal anything. One of them, a 26-year-old woman from Pebble Beach, has been arrested and charged with conspiracy, burglary and felony vandalism, according to Rosas.

Spyglass Pro Shop Burglarized

P.G. Comeheres SHOCKED That Their Cars Get Broken Into

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Tourist destinations like Pacific Grove are prime burglary targets. Criminals need a place to vacation to, and maybe catch up on some work while here. Don’t be a Bay Area fool, lock doors and windows. Don’t leave anything valuable in your car.

“We moved from the Bay Area to kind of avoid the crime and to see it kind of ticking up here is very disconcerting,” said Francie Soito who lives in Pacific Grove.

The alarming amount of car theft and break-ins is driving them to take extra safety measures, such as leaving their porch lights on.

P.G. Comeheres SHOCKED That Their Cars Get Broken Into

Why Is It Always Central Pharmacy?

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Put a steel gate up. Central Drugs

On Feb. 14. at about 2:25 a.m., two men broke the front glass door of Central Avenue Pharmacy at 133 15th St. Surveillance video shows them hurling a large rock at the
door several times before breaking it, kicking in the broken glass panel, climbing in and hopping over the sales counter toward the drugs.

With firearms drawn, Pacific Grove Police officers entered the pharmacy and searched  for the thieves, Gordon said, but they had already taken off. The burglars took less than $50 worth of codeine,” Gordon said. “The only thing they took is liquid codeine-type products.”

Why Is It Always Central Pharmacy?

Repeat Offender Repeats Arrest

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Same Scott Russo famous for robbing the store he was hired to manage?

Monterey County Detectives say they recovered a ‘trove’ of property after a Pebble Beach burglary. Detectives with the Property Crimes Unit followed up on a home burglary there. They located a house on the 1100 block of W. Alisal Street in Salinas. After serving a warrant there, investigators say they found the stolen property.
Detectives arrested 49-year-old Scott Russo, of Monterey County in Del Rey Oaks.

Repeat Offender Repeats Arrest

Ex Mayor Recovers Stolen Bicycle

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Carmel Mayor sees something and says something

at around 3:30 a.m. March 18, a security guard at the Monterey Plaza Hotel saw someone smash a glass door at the Mad Dogs & Englishmen bike shop and called police, who soon arrived to discover “someone had broken in and stolen a high-end electric bicycle.”

Having seen their post and photos of the bright red e-bike, former Mayor Steve Dallas was in Seaside shopping for his mother the next morning when he saw a group of men standing around a bike that seemed out of place. “I was getting something for my mom at Smart & Final and came back to the car with some drinks for her, looked up and saw this red bicycle,” he said. He recognized it as the e-bike stolen from Blevins and Watson — who opened their first Peninsula bike shop on Mission Street in Carmel several years ago — so he called Seaside P.D.

Ex Mayor Recovers Stolen Bicycle

Lifespan Of A Huge Jade Rock: About Nine Years

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When it’s left sitting in a front yard on Ocean View.

On March 5 at about 9:25 a.m., a person in a silver Chevrolet Suburban pulled up to a house on Ocean View Boulevard, picked up an expensive jade that was in the front yard and put it in the rear of the vehicle. The driver then fled the area. Surveillance video captured the theft of the rock, which police said was valued at $5,000.

The unidentified jade owner purchased the sizeable rock nine years ago, and it had been in his front yard since,

Lifespan Of A Huge Jade Rock: About Nine Years

Central Pharmacy Robbed Again

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It’s 2 AM in P.G., took 3 minutes to get to an alarm activation at a pharmacy.

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The break-in triggered the pharmacy’s burglar alarm, and though officers arrived within three minutes of getting the call, the thieves were already gone. “We got there, and you could tell from standing across the street that the front door was ajar,”

After officers discovered the thieves had pried open the door, they searched the business and discovered it had been burglarized. Owner Dana Gordon arrived and provided officers “a very rough idea of what was taken,” Fenton said — items related to opioids.

Central Pharmacy Robbed Again

Burglar Caught After Citizen Witnesses Break In

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Don’t mess with South of Sinex.

Salinas resident Marcus Swingle, 29, was climbing out of the window of the Forest Hill Ace Hardware located at 1136 Forest Ave. in the Fairway Shopping Center at around 4 a.m. The officers were there to greet him.

Officers credited an observant citizen who had noticed someone who appeared to be breaking into the store. The citizen subsequently notified the police, providing them with a run-down of what the suspect was doing.

Burglar Caught After Citizen Witnesses Break In