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Drunk Driver Crash And Rollover On Forest

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Piece of trash like most drunk drivers. Rollover near the middle school. And driving with no license. These days do license suspensions really matter?

Edgar Vargas Casiano

Suspect’s Name: Edgar Vargas Casiano
43-year-old male, resident of Pacific Grove, CA
Driver Arrested for DUI Following Rollover Collision on Forest Avenue
On Wednesday, January 21, 2026, at approximately 5:46 p.m., Pacific Grove Police Department officers responded to a reported injury collision in the 500 block of Forest  avenue. Officers located a vehicle overturned in the roadway and determined the driver was under the  influence of alcohol. The driver was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and related violations.
Preliminary investigation indicates the vehicle involved was a Jeep Cherokee that collided with a parked vehicle, rolled over, and came to rest against another vehicle. Officers also observed open alcohol containers associated with the driver. Due to medical treatment needs at the scene, a full DUI evaluation could not be completed, and a blood draw was later obtained pursuant to a search warrant. The driver was ultimately transported to Monterey County Jail.
The case is being forwarded to the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office for review of the following alleged violations:
• Vehicle Code 23152(a) — Driving Under the Influence (Alcohol)
• Vehicle Code 12500(a) — Driving Without a Valid License
• Vehicle Code 23222(a) — Possession of an Open Container While Driving

Drunk Driver Crash And Rollover On Forest

Wild Fish Manager Getting Deported

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Add to the list of legal fails at Liz Jacobs’ P.G. restaurant.

Wildfish menu

Juan Carlos Contreras, 43, was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs enforcement officials June 4, according to the owners of Wild Fish on Lighthouse Avenue, where he’s worked for five years. While Contreras has lived in the United States for about 25 years, immigration officials have started efforts to deport him.

according to Monterey County Superior Court documents, he was arrested Feb. 4, 2018, and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, excessive blood alcohol content of nearly twice the legal limit, DUI with a previous conviction within IO years, and hit-and-run. In October 2022, Contreras again pleaded guilty to DUI and enhancements of excessive blood alcohol and multiple DUIs in exchange for prosecutors dropping the other charges.
A plea agreement reviewed by The Pine Cone shows that, in exchange for the deal,  Contreras signed a form that stated, “I understand that if I am not a United States citizen, that my plea of guilty or no contest may result in Immigration consequences such as deportation, exclusion from  admission into the United States, and denial of naturalization or amnesty”

Wild Fish Manager Getting Deported

Erik Cushman’s Predisposition For Strong Whiskey And Multiple DUI Arrests

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Things even the Squid would not write about.

What a doofus for trying to drive when intoxicated – while serving five years’ probation from the last DUI conviction.

Erik Cushman DUI Arrest

Pacific Grove police arrested Monterey County Weekly publisher Erik Cushman July 28 for drunken driving and violating his probation from an earlier DUI conviction, which includes a requirement that he not drive if he has any alcohol in his blood.
The arrest happened as Cushman, 46, was on his way home from a Monterey Peninsula Chamber of Commerce dinner where he accepted a Business Excellence Award for his newspaper in the Media and Marketing category

Cushman, who in a recent interview for the  California Newspaper Publishers Association’s newsletter said his qualifications to be a newspaper publisher included his “predisposition for foul language and strong whiskey,” was arrested for his first DUI on May 30, 2009,

Erik Cushman’s Predisposition For Strong Whiskey And Multiple DUI Arrests

Rude Racist Of Questionable Competency

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John Charles Ensor, 48, was arrested at gunpoint by Pacific Grove Police officers on Aug. 12, 2020 after they say he made threats, yelled racial slurs and threw an aluminum baseball bat at a vehicle and a beer can at another. The Monterey County District Attorney’s Office charged Ensor with a litany of crimes, including a hate crime, assault by means to produce great bodily injury, criminal threats and exhibiting a deadly weapon.

A mental health evaluation was filed, but Butler has not yet ruled on whether or not he is competent to stand trial. Ensor tried to get Jefferson, his taxpayer-funded attorney, fired from his case at the Dec. 4 hearing.

Rude Racist Of Questionable Competency

P.G. Man Guilty In Highway Crash That Killed Other Driver

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Just 7 years in prison for that. Shame.

On the day of the crash, Stewart Napier was driving near the Eighth Street overpass in Marina when he “looked down for a lighter, and when he looked back up, he saw the victim’s brake lights and collided with him, causing the victim’s car to swerve off the road and burst into flames,”

“It was a heroin-methamphetamine case at rush hour on a road you and I travel all the time,” she said. “This is an example of the dangerousness of controlled substances vs alcohol and how they all intertwine. He’s a young man from P.G. driving on Highway 1 impaired, and he rear ends Mr. Acona, who dies. It’s tragic.”

Napier also pleaded guilty May 28 to assault likely to cause great bodily harm for a March 4 fight with another inmate at the Monterey County Jail, where he has been lodged since his arrest last December.

P.G. Man Guilty In Highway Crash That Killed Other Driver