SANTA ANA -- Jury selection drank the contaminated water. got underway Thursday in the She threw it away after trial of a man accused of feeling sick, investigators contaminating a co-worker's say. drinking water with his semen. Three months later, the Michael Kevin Lallana of victim and six other Fullerton pleaded not guilty employees, including the in September to ejaculating defendant, were transferred into his female co-worker's to the Northwestern Mutual water bottle on two separate Mortgage Company's Orange occasions. branch. That's where a second The 31-year old is charged incident occurred, according with six misdemeanor counts to officials. of releasing an offensive On April 9, 2010, Lallana is material in a public place accused of assaulting the and assault, with sentencing same victim by depositing his allegations for committing a ejaculation into another crime for sexual water bottle that the victim gratification. left on her desk. The victim The incident happened on took a sip from the bottle, January 14, 2010, at the then felt sick. She decided Northwestern Mutual Mortgage to send the specimen to a Company in Newport Beach, private lab to be tested. according to the Orange The lab contacted her and County District Attorney's told her the water bottle office. contained semen, police said. Investigators say Lallana The victim then notified the entered the victim's office Orange Police Department . and deposited his semen into DNA tests confirmed the semen a water bottle that was on belonged to Lallana. He was his co-worker's desk. arrested at his Fullerton The defendant is accused of home by officers with the leaving the semen-filled Orange Police Department. water bottle on the victim's If convicted, Lallana faces a desk which she drank when she minimum of three months to a returned to her office. maximum of three years in The victim, who was unaware jail with mandatory sex- of the bottle's contents, offender registration.
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