The Herald’s depiction of Pollacci is more of a crime than anything else, because it creates hype and scares people who may not know him.
I knew him, wish I didn’t.
Let not the sins of the son reflect on the goodness of the family.
I have lived in Pacific Grove all my life. I have gone to school with the Pollacci family and attended social events with them. They are a fine, upstanding family.
A fine upstanding family that employed a registered sex offender. Oxymoron.
Let’s all feel sorry..
Pollacci was accompanied to his arraignment Tuesday by defense investigator Richard Lee, who wrote a presentence report in the 1993 case describing Pollacci as a spoiled, self-centered man who was guilty of being presumptuous and using poor judgment, but who did not realize he was having sex without consent. According to the report, Pollacci told Lee that he had come to realize through therapy that he never learned any “boundaries” in his life.
“He says, quite frankly, that he was ‘spoiled’ and has long conducted himself as able to do pretty much whatever he pleases.”
Sexual battery. Sees judge today.
The affidavits list Pollacci’s prior convictions, which include battery in 1985, loitering on private property in 1990 and the two counts of sexual battery in 1993.
That case involved alleged separate rapes of two women, one of whom said she was possibly drugged and awoke to find Pollacci assaulting her.
The woman said Pollacci had brought her home from a first date at Rocky Point Restaurant. She was angry that he’d consumed a considerable amount of alcohol and suggested that he should go home, but he walked her into her apartment.
She told police she got a glass of water and went to her bedroom to change. When she came out she drank some of the water. She awoke the next morning thinking she was having a dream, only to realize it was real.
The second case involved a woman who said Pollacci sexually assaulted her in the parking lot of the Highlands Inn after the two had lunch, also on their first date.
Write to the Senator and express your support! Abel Maldonado email
State Senator Abel Maldonado said he’ll consider proposing a bill that would prevent registered sex offenders from working in liquor stores and other businesses where they can check IDs and have access to customers’ personal information.
“Allowing registered sex offenders to view a person’s driver’s license, thereby allowing them to obtain important contact information like the person’s address, is extremely dangerous,” Maldonado said.
Maldonado made the comments to The Pine Cone after learning that registered sex offender and liquor store worker Thomas Pollacci, 49, was charged with three felony counts of rape stemming from an April 2008 incident. Pollacci’s family owns Ron’s Liquors in Pacific Grove, and he has worked there for years.
From the Internet in 2004 . .
Senator Considering Law That Would Bar Sex Offenders From Seeing Your Personal Information
No, not eaten by squirrels. Someone has stolen all the copies in town, possibly to hide the story about Tom Pollacci being arrested for rape.
The entire paper can be downloaded – http://www.pineconearchive.com/downloads090313.htm
And remember – don’t show your I.D. to sex offenders.
Think about it ladies – a registered sex offender could be looking at YOUR name & address when you buy alcohol or tobacco at Ron’s Liquors.
Police tracked down Pollacci after he reportedly left the woman at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula with a head injury. In the following months, they gathered evidence — including having forensics specialists sweep the Lighthouse Avenue liquor store where he works — and interviewed the victim, who is not from the area.
Neither officers, nor the district attorney’s office, would reveal any further details of the case. Pollacci, who police said is a registered sex offender, is set to appear in a Salinas courtroom at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 24, for his arraignment
Interesting screenshot obtained via email. One does get to wonder what the circumstances are to have this removed from the Megan’s Law pages.
Near the Aquarium & Tin Cannery.
A 27-year-old Seaside man was arrested Thursday on suspicion of repeated acts of voyeurism and burglary, Pacific Grove police said.
Jose Enrique Jimenez committed those acts at a house in the 100 block of Ocean View Boulevard, police said.
Call the Tidepool Police! Cannot have this spoiling the beauty of the rocks.
On February 5, a female went to the police department and reported that a Hispanic male adult between the ages of 25-35 exposed himself at the Asilomar turnout near Acropolis Avenue. The suspect was standing on the rocks near the surf line. He left the area in a metallic teal colored coupe with a spoiler, bearing a partial California plate number 5BFO.
The retrial of a former Peninsula businessman suspected of child molestation has been delayed until February. Prosecutor Glenn Pesenhofer said he requested the continuance to allow time to investigate new evidence against David Stamm.
Stamm testified at his first trial that the relationship with his accuser, by then 23, was consensual and did not begin until after the boy turned 18. The jury acquitted him of oral copulation of a person under the age of 18 but deadlocked on all other charges. Pesenhofer said jury selection is now set for Feb. 2, with testimony to begin Feb. 9.
Free poetry from the Internet:
There once was a man from Dundee,
Who molested an ape in a tree,
The result was most horrid,
All arse and no forehead,
Three balls and a purple goatee!
Denis Edward Wagner pleaded not guilty to two counts of possessing child porn. Prosecutor Gary Thelander asked Judge Russell Scott to increase Wagner’s bail from $10,000 to $100,000, arguing Wagner was a danger to the community because he might “act upon his impulses.”
Wagner is among the writers who have contributed their works to “The Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets.” In October, he participated in “The Big Read: The Poetry of Robinson Jeffers.”