http://www.dailybreeze.com/latestnews/ci_17453458Man admits on tape he ejaculated in co-worker's water bottleBy Paul Anderson City News Service
Posted: 02/22/2011 02:05:42 PM PST
Jurors today heard a taped interview in which a Fullerton man admitted that he ejaculated into an "attractive" co-worker's water bottle because "her lips had touched it," but told detectives he never thought she would drink it.
Michael Kevin Lallana, 32, is charged with two misdemeanor counts each of battery and assault, with sentence-enhancing allegations of committing a crime for sexual gratification.
Lallana's attorney, Eduardo Madrid, told jurors in his opening statement that the evidence will not show that his client assaulted or battered his colleague.
Lallana and the woman -- identified only as Tiffany G. -- began working together at Northwestern Mutual Financial Network in Newport Beach, then were both transferred last year to the company's office in Orange.
"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 Orange Police Department detectives in explaining why he ejaculated into the woman's water bottle twice last year.
When the detectives quizzed him on why he didn't just throw the water bottle away when he was done, Lallana said he figured she would dump the water and was afraid of leaving anything out of place on her desk.
"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."
Tiffany testified that she left her water bottle on her desk in the Newport Beach office on a Friday in January of last year. She said that when she returned the following Monday and drank from the bottle, she tasted what she believed to be semen.
"I had a hunch that's what it was, but I wouldn't dream in a million years that's what it was," she said.
Orange County prosecutors initially said it occurred Jan. 14. But under cross-examination by the defendant's attorney, the woman said it was Jan. 25 when she tasted the water.
After being transferred to the company's office in Orange, the woman said she again tasted semen in her water last April 6. Up to that point, she had been more careful with her water, dumping it when she left, she said.
Tiffany testified she threw the water bottle away that January. But after the second time in April,
she kept the fouled liquid and asked her fiancee put his semen in a water bottle to see if that's what she had tasted at work.
"At the time, I had no idea how else to figure out what this was," she testified.
Convinced it was semen in the water bottle she had at work, the witness said she approached Orange police but was told they could not do anything based on the suspicion of a crime.
She then went to human resources officials at her workplace. "They heard me out, but they didn't know what to do," she testified.
The woman said she was told the company's legal representatives would be consulted but decided on her own to seek out an independent laboratory to test the water.
When she found a lab and got the results back, she had a friend, whose husband is a former Orange police officer, call the department's investigators and they picked up the case in June, she testified.
Tiffany and Lallana did not have much to do with each other than small talk or an occasional greeting because he did much of his work outside the office, according to testimony.
In the taped interview, Lallana initially acknowledged only that he had masturbated in the office, but ultimately admitted ejaculating into Tiffany's water bottle.
"I saw her water bottle and I did it," Lallana says on the tape. "For me, it's a release. I think about my wife."
When pressed by detectives, Lallana said he found his co-worker attractive and that part of the allure was that "her lips had touched" the water bottle, according to the tape played for jurors.
The detectives asked why Lallana would not dispose of the fouled water if he didn't want her to drink it.
"Yeah, I probably should have dumped it," he says on the tape. "Maybe I didn't want anything to seem out of the ordinary (on her desk)."
He went on to say that Tiffany was a "very nice" and "very helpful" co-worker.
Madrid argued the taped interview should not be played for the jury because his client had not been placed under arrest and read his Miranda rights at that point, but Orange County Superior Court Judge Walter Schwarm overruled the objection.
During the interview, Lallana acknowledged he had come to the interview voluntarily. But he can also been heard asking investigators, "Am I in trouble for this?" and "Am I going to get arrested for this?"
Lallana also gave investigators a DNA sample, and Deputy District Attorney Brock Zimmon told jurors the evidence showed it was Lallana's semen in the water bottle.
Mon Oct 03, 2011 8:40 am by 
Subject: What's In Your Water? 
I wonder if he's actually expecting his wife to believe that haha
