Shoplifter Mob Hits Rite Aide

Crime is alive and well at Country Club Gate. Looks like one of them was stealing Sharpie pens.

Rite Aid Shoplifters

One of them, police said, tried to spray an employee with pepper spray.

Employees watched them run into a residential area and kept in contact with police by cellphone, and four of the six were caught and arrested, investigators said.

They were Jamilah Lynn Barth, 26, of Boulder Creek; Kelly Lynn Loretz, 26, of Ben Lomond; Patrice Roxmary Hayes, 24, of Fremont; and Jasmine Robinlsa Magnuson, 23, of Watsonville, police said

Shoplifter Mob Hits Rite Aide

Country Club Gate Bank Burglarized

The shopping center has been a training academy for young criminals. Add stupid young criminals – this one thought the bank would have money left out of the vault for the taking.

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A 19-year-old Pacific Grove man was arrested on suspicion of burglary and vandalism early Sunday after he reportedly broke a window at the Chase Bank at 170 Country Club Center, then climbed in to look for money.

 

The broken window caused an alarm to sound just before 6 a.m., police said, and they arrived to find Curtis Vanderslice, near the bank.

 

Vanderslice admitted breaking the window and going inside, police said. He was booked into county jail.

Country Club Gate Bank Burglarized

Country Club Gate Center Sold

Pacific Groove

“This is a great piece of news,” said Moe Ammar, president of the Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce. “People are still investing in commercial real estate.”

Ammar said he understands ROIC plans to operate and manage the center.

Moe, stay away from Forest Hill. I don’t want all the stores to turn to resale shops and overpriced restaurants.

Country Club Gate Center Sold

Counterfeit Thwarted

Good work, Save Mart.

A clerk at a SaveMart store refused to accept the bogus bill, and police were called about 8:20 p.m. The suspect was found nearby, and police said he had five counterfeit $100 bills.

Brendon McCloskey, 29, was booked into Monterey County Jail on a parole hold and suspicion of burglary, attempting to pass a fictitious note and providing false identification.


Counterfeit Thwarted

Pet Store Owners Growling At New Dog In Town

It this not what’s wrong with P.G. these days? Low volume specialty stores that contribute less in sales tax revenue think that they are entitled to some kind of protection by the city. That kind of thinking drives me out of town to shop.

Six small, locally owned P.G. pet businesses – Stone’s Pet Shop, Best Pets and Posh Pets, plus three grooming services – are leading a protest of the chain store they say could shut them down.

“They’re picking on the little kids on the playground,” says Stone’s co-owner Tom Radcliffe.

Radcliffe is upset Pet Extreme plans to open a store just a short sprint from Stone’s, into the 7,000-plus-square-foot space vacated by Hollywood Video in the Country Club Gate Center.

CC Gate video store

Pet Store Owners Growling At New Dog In Town

New Pet Extreme Store Coming To Country Club Gate

Also planning on occupying the soon to be out of business beauty supply store.

This is shaping up to be an uphill battle – howls are coming from a few that think a full service discount pet store will hurt businesses that have been here forever. In a town where dogs have more rights than the handicapped multiple pet stores can thrive. Of course those stores that have physically been here for a long time but do not resemble their former selves may need to polish up a bit.

I myself usually shop for Pup-r-oni and Science Diet at Pet Smart. Once there I might as well go to the Save Mart that is next door. And stop at OSH or Target. See where I’m going here? My tax revenues might stay in P.G. if I had no reason to go to Sand City in the first place.

CC Gate video store

Check the store’s site www.petextreme.com, they list prices and post weekly ads. Can’t say that about the local stores that are very unwired.

New Pet Store Coming To Country Club Gate