Character #8 - Vincent Caruso:
This 20-year-old Criminology student (schooling via a correspondence course with nearby Stanford Univ) works part time at Pacific Grove's police station. He idolizes his uncle, tenor Enrico Caruso, and is known to break out in operatic song at the slightest provocation, causing neighborhood cats to attack their owners and dogs from blocks away to howl and chase their tails 'til they faint.