Daily Rotten Archives February 14, 2005 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Alleged NAMBLAns arrested KGTV-TV 10 San Diego | Submitted by: Lady Despair "Phillip Todd Calvin, 43, of Dallas; David Cory Mayer, 49, of Chicago; and Paul Ernest Zipszer, 39, of Deland, Fla., surrendered without incident about 10 a.m., FBI Special Agent Jan Caldwell said. Investigators said Mayer is a psychologist who counsels sex offenders and Calvin is a dentist... A San Diego FBI agent infiltrated the North American Man/Boy Love Association, attended two meetings according to investigators, and built up trust with other members. His affiliation led to a planned trip to Mexico, where the seven men believed they would find a safe haven where they could engage in sex with underage boys. The requests were specific, including an age range of 8 to 14. The men were supposed to leave for Mexico on Saturday, but instead found themselves in a sting operation." Read article... Letourneau reportedly engaged to boytoy Wire Services | Submitted by: CaptainSquanto "Mary Kay Letourneau plans to marry the former sixth-grade pupil with whom she had two children, months after her release from prison for raping him, according to an online bridal registry. Photo Letourneau, 43, and Vili Fualaau, 22, set a wedding date of April 16, according to their registry at a department store. Letourneau served 7 1/2 years on a 1997 conviction for raping Fualaau, who has said in the past that he hoped to wed his former teacher... Letourneau was a 34-year-old married mother of four when she began a sexual relationship with her then-12-year-old elementary school student in 1996. She was pregnant with Fualaau's first child when she was arrested in 1997 and ordered to serve a six-month sentence for second-degree child rape." Read article... Another big failure for magical missile defense Wire Services | Submitted by: CaptainSquanto "A test of the national missile defense system failed Monday when an interceptor missile did not launch from its island base in the Pacific Ocean, the military said. It was the second failure in months for the experimental program... Previous failures of these high-profile, $85 million test launches have been regarded as significant setbacks by critics of the program. In Monday's test, the interceptor missile was to target a mock ICBM fired from Kodiak Island, Alaska. The target missile launched at 1:22 a.m. Monday EST without any problems, but the interceptor did not launch. The previous test, on Dec. 15, failed under almost identical circumstances. The target missile launched, but the interceptor did not." Read article... Airport security misses butcher knife in handbag CNN | Submitted by: Oobatz "A security screener at Newark Liberty International Airport failed to spot a butcher knife in a passenger's pocketbook and was removed from the post for retraining, officials said. Katrina Bell, 27, had cleared security and was waiting with her sister to board a flight on Saturday morning when she discovered she was carrying a knife. Bell had put the knife in her bag 'just in case' before going on a blind date earlier that week, her sister and travel companion, Tikisha Bell Gowens, 30, said... 'She said to me, "Oh my God, I have this butcher knife in my pocketbook,"' Bell Gowens said. 'My first thought was, "They're going to think we're terrorists."' The North Carolina women immediately told airport personnel... 'Come on, now. We had a butcher knife. How do you miss that? How many years do you need to get this right?'" [Excellent question.] Read article... Rapist nailed for porn St. Petersburg Times | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A man sentenced in November to serve 30 years of probation for sex offenses was arrested Friday, accused of violating the terms of that probation by possessing sexually explicit videotapes... [Joshua Adam Science] was arrested in March 2004 and accused of having illegal sexual contact with teenage girls. In one case, Science was accused of holding a knife while fondling a 16-year-old Homosassa girl who them performed oral sex on him, according to law enforcement... Among the many terms of probation is that Science could not view, possess or own any obscene, pornographic or sexually explicit material, according to an arrest record. On Friday, a probation officer found in Science's bedroom three videotapes that contained sexually explicit acts, the arrest record said." Read article... Nursing home resident allegedly rapes geezer Daily News Transcript | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A 68-year-old nursing home patient, labeled a Level 3 sex offender, has been charged with raping another resident... John A. Enos, 68, is accused of raping an older male resident, police said... Enos was convicted once in 1988 for indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 years old and twice in 1987, for indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 years old, and rape and abuse of a child." Read article... Cop quits after perv investigation Advocate | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A policeman in Colorado Springs, Colo., has resigned after 100 photos of barely clad men were found in his home. An investigation of former patrolman Charles Broshous was begun after a gay dancer reported being arrested and forced to strip to a 'satin leopard G-string' while Broshous photographed him. Broshous, 36, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor official misconduct November 24 and resigned from the force that day... Investigators said that, among other things, Broshous issued an unusually high number of tickets for underage drinking. He would order offenders to remove their shirts, saying he was looking for tattoos." Read article... Apartment resident allegedly shot by neighbor Canoe | Submitted by: S.D.M. "A 37-year-old Quebec man faces several charges, including criminal negligence, following a bizarre shooting at a motel. Mario Ethier was arrested after a Sudbury, Ont., man was shot in the groin by a bullet that came through the ceiling of his room from the floor above. The 44-year-old victim was sitting in front of his laptop computer about 1 a.m. on Saturday when he heard a noise, saw a puff of smoke and realized his lap was bleeding. The bullet had entered his upper abdomen, his scrotum and thigh." Read article... Police investigate rumors of underwater gnomes BBC | Submitted by: servalan "A secret underwater attraction that lured several divers to their deaths could have returned, police say. The 'gnome garden' complete with picket fence was removed from the bottom of Wastwater in the Lake District after several divers died a few years ago. It is thought they spent too much time at too great a depth while searching for the site of the ornaments. Now police divers say there is a rumour that the garden has returned at a depth beyond which they are allowed." Read article... Poontang imported to entice gay penguins Guardian UK | Submitted by: optional "They are called Charley, Left-Arrow, Diagonal-Line and Six-Point. The four female penguins at Bremerhaven Zoo in Germany are at the centre of debate after being brought in to tempt 'gay' male penguins. The zoo imported the penguins from Sweden last month after finding through DNA tests that three of their five existing pairs were all male. The zoo had been mystified why its endangered Humboldt penguins had failed to breed, until they realised the males had paired off, the zoo's director Heike Kück said... But the zoo's decision to introduce females has sparked a furious response from gay and lesbian groups in Germany... 'The central question is, are our penguins really gay or is it simply a lack of opportunity?' she told Der Spiegel. 'So far the males have scarcely thrown the females a single glance. The men have had the opportunity but haven't done it. 'If the penguins really are gay then obviously they can stay gay.'" Read article...