Crime & Safety

Man Guilty of Battery for Putting Semen in Water Bottle

Authorities say Michael Kevin Lallana twice put his semen in a woman's water bottle while working at Northwestern Mutual Financial Network branches in Newport Beach and Orange.

Update: A Jury has found Michael Kevin Lallana, 32, guilty of battery for putting his semen in a female coworker's water bottle for sexual gratification, the Orange County District Attorney's Office reports. 

Lallana faces a year in jail and could be required to register as a sex offender.

Previous story: A man admitted to police that he ejaculated into a coworker's water bottle but said he didn't think the woman was going to drink from it.

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Jurors in the trial of Michael Kevin Lallana, who is accused of twice putting his semen in a coworker's water bottle, heard the taped interview on Tuesday.

"It was the closest I could ever get to someone as good looking as that without tampering with my marriage or hurting anyone," Lallana said in the
interview with detectives from the Orange Police Department.

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The 32-year-old from Fullerton is charged with two misdemeanor counts each of battery and assault, with sentence-enhancing allegations of committing a crime for sexual gratification.

Defense attorney Eduardo Madrid said in his opening statement that the evidence would not show that Lallana is guilty of the charges.

Authorities say the first incident happened in January 2010 when Lallana allegedly put his semen into a water bottle left on the desk of a female co-worker at Northwestern Mutual Financial Network in Newport Beach. The co-worker later drank from the bottle, realized something was wrong with the contents and threw it away, according to the D.A.'s office.

"I had a hunch that's what it was, but I wouldn't dream in a million years that's what it was," The woman, identified only as Tiffany G., said in court.

In April 2010, Lallana and the female co-worker were among employees transferred to Northwestern Mutual Financial Network’s Orange branch. Soon after the move, authorities say, Lallana again put his semen in the woman's water bottle. Again, she detected something wrong with the water. This time she sent it to a private lab to be tested, according to the district attorney's office.

Lab results showed that there was semen in the water, the D.A.'s office said. The woman reported the incident to Orange police. An investigation led to the arrest of Lallana, who, according to authorities, was linked to the incident by DNA.

When detectives asked Lallana why, if he didn't intend for his colleague to drink the tainted water, he didn't throw the bottle away, he said that he didn't want to leave her desk disturbed.

"Can I honestly say I wanted her to drink it? No," Lallana said in the taped interview. "Why I left it there, I don't know."

If convicted, Lallana faces a year in jail and could be required to register as a sex offender.

— City News Service


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