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Tag: Pogonip Thu, March 18, 2010

• Pogonip Rangers in Danger

  Mar 16, 2010, by Curtis Cartier News
  

  A standard-issue Santa Cruz park ranger uniform comes with a forest green shirt and slacks, hiking boots, a wide-brimmed hat and a tool belt containing a Leatherman multi-tool, a flashlight, a notepad, a two-way radio and a can of pepper spray. Nowhere in any pocket, holster or clip is a device designed to assist a ranger in a gunfight. So when Rangers Brian Watson and Gar Eidam stumbled onto an illegal campsite in the Pogonip last month and found $850 worth of heroin and a loaded .357 magnum handgun, they radioed in for help from the Santa Cruz Police Parks Unit. With slideshow.

• New Techniques Could Help Solve Cold Case

  Jan 08, 2010, by Staff News

  Using new technologies, investigators may finally be able to determine the identity of “Pogonip Jane,” whose body was found in the Pogonip greenbelt 16 years ago.

• Junkie Town: Santa Cruz’s Heroin Problem

  Dec 02, 2009, by Curtis Cartier News
  

  “Heroin Hill,” as it’s called by addicts and law enforcement, is a roughly 50-acre trash-strewn plot in the southeast section of the city-owned Greenbelt that’s known to addicts and cops as a substance abuse superstore with rock-bottom prices on heroin, methamphetamine, crack, marijuana, cocaine and pharmaceuticals.

• Neighbors Discuss Meth Use in Pogonip

  Sep 18, 2009, by Staff News

  The Police Department had some dire news for members of the Santa Cruz Neighbors group. The 60 participants in a public meeting were told that Pogonip was the county’s “meth capital,” with some shocking figures to back that up.

• Drugs a Fire Hazard in Pogonip

  Sep 04, 2009, by Staff Environment
  

  Pogonip may be popular with people out for a brisk stroll, but anyone who veers off the most popular trails could run into a heroin or coke deal. Chief Ranger John Wallace says that the number of drug deals taking place there is so enormous that people are making their way down to “Heroin Hill” from Silicon Valley. Over 100 drug-related arrests have been made in the area since this past May.

• Tightening of the Santa Cruz Greenbelt

  Aug 05, 2009, by Michelle Camerlingo News
  

  IN THE CRISP light of a spring day, Cathy Puccinelli stands quietly, her eyes taking in the land that has been in her family for more than 100 years. The echo of flowing water from the adjacent Pogonip Creek is a perfect backdrop for the sprawling seven-acre property, made up of a cottagelike farmhouse with a well-kept yard and a large organic farming field.
  Puccinelli says the land hasn’t changed much since her Italian immigrant grandparents bought it in 1900 to farm. “But no one wanted it then,” she says. “It was right next to the tannery, so it smelled of blood and hide.” (With slide show)

• Pogonip Brushfire Doused

  Jul 15, 2009, by Staff News

  A small brushfire that broke out yesterday afternoon between Harvey West Business Park and UC Santa Cruz was extinguished quickly by fire crews on the ground and a Cal Fire helicopter.