In 2010, a California woman took a sip from her office water bottle and suspected it contained semen. Then it happened again.
This time, she kept the bottle.
She asked her fiancé to provide a comparison sample, then had the workplace bottle tested.
A private lab confirmed her suspicion.
DNA testing identified her coworker, Michael Kevin Lallana.
He admitted contaminating her water twice.
He found her attractive, he told detectives, and knew “her lips had touched” the bottle.
In 2011, he was convicted of two misdemeanor battery counts with sexual-gratification enhancements.
He received 180 days in jail, three years’ probation and an order to register as a sex offender.
He was also ordered to pay over $27,000 in restitution.
Missing in Louisiana: Christin “Chrissy” Munn-Holliday (22)
On September 29, Christin left her home in Katy, Texas, after dropping her young son off with family.
The following morning, her BMW was involved in a two-vehicle collision on the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge along I-10 in Louisiana.
Witnesses reportedly saw Christin walk away from the crash. When authorities arrived, she was gone.
She hasn’t been seen since.
Her sister has shared surveillance images from the day Christin left home, showing her outside her residence in a purple outfit and orange shoes.
But nearly three weeks later, some important questions remain unanswered.
Who actually witnessed Christin leaving the crash? Which direction did she walk? Were the accounts of everyone in the other vehicle corroborated?
And perhaps most importantly, how does someone walk away from an accident on an 18-mile bridge and seemingly disappear?
Her family is offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to her safe return.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Capital Region Crime Stoppers at 225-344-7867. #BringBinkHome #missingperson
Photos: Courtesy of Christin Munn-Holliday’s family via Facebook
A police officer walked up the driveway of a house in a Houston suburb, pushed a woman against the garage door, and shot her son in the chest when he got up to object.
It was his own driveway. It was his own mother.
Robbie Tolan is the nephew of a Major League Baseball player. The car was his.
Bellaire, Texas, 31 December 2008, around two in the morning. Robbie Tolan, 23, and his cousin had just got home from a late trip out.
An officer ran the plate and typed a digit wrong. The system returned the car as stolen. It was not. It was Robbie Tolan's car, parked in front of the house he lived in with his parents.
Officers ordered the two young men to the ground in the front garden. Tolan's parents came out in their night clothes and told the police this was their house, their son, their car.
Sergeant Jeffrey Cotton arrived. He took hold of Marian Tolan and pushed her against the garage door.
Robbie, on the ground, pushed himself up to object to his mother being handled.
Cotton shot him three times from about fifteen or twenty feet. One bullet went through his lung and lodged near his liver.
He survived. The bullet is still in him. His baseball career — he had been a prospect in the Washington Nationals system — was over.
Cotton was charged with aggravated assault. In 2010 a jury acquitted him.
The civil case went all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States, which in 2014 ruled unanimously in Tolan's favour on qualified immunity — holding that the lower courts had improperly weighed the facts in the officer's favour. *Tolan v. Cotton* is now a standard citation.
He was in his own driveway. His parents were on their own porch. His father is Bobby Tolan, who played in the World Series.
None of it counted, because somebody typed a letter wrong and then a sergeant did not like being told whose house it was.
Robbie Tolan was shot by a police officer in his own driveway after a mistaken license-plate entry led police to believe his car was stolen. When he tried to protect his mother, he was shot three times. He survived, but his baseball career was over. The officer was acquitted.
His family was home. His car was his own. And one mistake changed his life forever.
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