A California man has been found guilty of putting his semen in a colleague’s water bottle and on her workspace after she rejected his advances.

Stevens Millancastro, 30, was convicted Monday on assault and battery charges stemming from his attempts to retaliate against the woman in La Palma between November 2016 and January 2017, the Mercury News reported.

Prosecutors allege that Millancastro was obsessed with his co-worker, asked her out on a date, and then began to incessantly stare at her after she turned him down.

The woman asked her boss to tell him to cut it out, but when that didn’t stop him, she filed a complaint with the HR department, prosecutors said.

Then on several occasions, the woman came to work to find a murky substance in her half-full water bottle, the outlet reported.

Her boss agreed to set up a surveillance camera to monitor her desk, then reviewed the footage when she came into the office on another morning and discovered a “milky white substance” on her keyboard, prosecutors said.

The footage was turned over to detectives who determined that Millancastro waited until the woman left, then smeared something using tissues on her keyboard and mouse, the outlet reported.

Police also found Millancastro’s semen in her water bottle and a bottle of honey she put in her tea every day, the report said.

During the trial, the woman testified that Millancastro made her feel “very, very uncomfortable,” and that she was disgusted by his conduct, the outlet reported.

Millancastro’s attorney, Michael Morrison, acknowledged that his client’s behavior was “highly inappropriate,” but denied that he was acting out of sexual gratification.

Instead, he claimed that Millancastro was retaliating against the woman over the HR complaint, and was afraid of losing his job or a promotion, the report said.

Millancastro is set to be sentenced Oct. 6, and faces up to two years and six months in prison, the outlet reported.

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Seattle now has a convicted pimp who once vowed to “go to war” with the city on its payroll — a $150,000 “Street Czar,”  whose mission is to come up with “alternatives to policing,” reports said.

Andre Taylor — who appeared in the documentary “American Pimp” about his life as “Gorgeous Dre” — is getting $12,500 per month for a year, along with an office in Seattle’s Municipal Tower, according to the contract published by PubliCola.

It comes just a year after his organization, Not This Time, was paid $100,000 to sponsor a speaker series that was called “Conversations with the Streets.”

Taylor led one of the first rallies in Seattle after the police-custody death of George Floyd, the Seattle Times said.

He was later accused of trying to get millions from the city for militants who set up the controversial police-free Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) zone, the Seattle Times said.

“Don’t just leave. Leave with something,” he told activists in a meeting caught in a recording, telling them to demand $2 million to exit the hub of much of the city’s worst violence this year, the report said. They ignored his advice, the paper said, with one saying the money grab felt “off.”

Those some militants then accused him of betraying the, too, when he appeared at a press conference with the mayor to tell them to shut-down CHOP — the same day he was given his six-figure contract, the paper said.

The new Street Czar justified the contract to KOMO News as payment for his “particular genius in a particular area” — saying he can talk to “gang members, pimps and prostitutes” who “won’t sit down with anybody else.”

“Black people as a whole have not been in a place to be compensated for their genius or their work for a very very long time,” he said.

“Not too many people can go talk to gangbangers in their territory, and then go talk to the government in their territory,” Taylor also told the Seattle Times.

Taylor first found notoriety in Las Vegas, where he was sentenced in 2000 to more than five years in prison, serving little more than a year, the Seattle Times previously noted.

Some of the girls he pimped for were underage, according to court reports in the Las Vegas Sun.

“I was born from the streets; I come out of the deep darkness,” he said in a YouTube video earlier this year, bragging how he “had children with some of the women who were with me” when he was a pimp.

“We decided we were going to be in this subculture, like the Mafia, whether you liked it or not,” he said of his life. “We knew you considered us the waste of the world from the beginning,” he said. “We didn’t care what you thought about us … just like I don’t care what you think about me now,” he said.

He came to Seattle in 2016 after his brother, Che Taylor, died in a police shooting — saying he was “here to go to war,” the Seattle Times noted.

As Street Czar, his contract tasks him to “provide recommendations to the City on de-escalation, community engagement, and alternatives to policing.”

Taylor’s group was chosen because of its “lived experience with the criminal legal system, and their history of successful advocacy and activism on issues of policing and dismantling systemic racism,” Nyland added, noting that the city is spending millions this year on similar contracts with various groups.

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An NYPD cop and US Army reservist with a “secret” security clearance was charged Monday with serving as a Chinese spy who passed on information to a handler involved in “neutralizing” Tibetan opponents in America.

Baimadajie Angwang, who works as a community affairs officer in the 111th Precinct in Queens, allegedly began acting on behalf of the People’s Republic of China in May 2018, reporting to an unidentified “handler” stationed in the Chinese consulate in Manhattan, according to a complaint unsealed in Brooklyn federal court.

His contacts with the consulate began in 2014, the papers note.

FBI New York Assistant Director-in-Charge William Sweeney Jr. called Angwang, “the definition of an insider threat,” saying he allegedly “operated on behalf of a foreign government; lied to gain his clearance, and used his position as an NYPD police officer to aid the Chinese government’s subversive and illegal attempts to recruit intelligence sources.”

Angwang — a 33-year-old, married father who lives in a Long Island home with Old Glory flying out front — “served as an intelligence asset” whose duties included gathering information on potential opponents of the Chinese government, including members of “religious and ethnic minorities.”

His handler, identified only as “PRC Official-2,” is believed to have been assigned to the “China Association for Preservation and Development of Tibetan Culture,” a division of the Chinese United Front Work Department that’s responsible for “neutralizing sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of the PRC,” court papers say.

Angwang, an ethnic Tibetan and naturalized citizen, is accused of reporting on the activities of fellow ethnic Tibetans, including by scoping out “potential ethnic Tibetan intelligence sources in the New York metropolitan area and beyond,” as well as potential troublemakers.

He allegedly called and texted PRC Official-2’s cellphone at least 55 times between June 2018 and March 2020. Earlier, he also called and texted another contact at the consulate — “PRC Official-1” — at least 53 times between Aug. 21, 2014, and Aug. 11, 2017, court papers say.

During a wiretapped phone call on Nov. 14, 2019, Angwang informed his handler — whom he routinely greeted as “Boss” — that several ethnic Tibetans were working in the offices of unspecified elected New York officials, according to court papers.

“They are mainly, mainly, mainly, in Queens, at the Queens area state legislator’s office. These offices all have our people working there, because our population is getting larger. They hire them to pull in more votes, to pull in more votes,” he allegedly said.

“But I also feel that some community groups may use their relationships to associate with them, to chant slogans, to utter nonsense. They may, may, may create more work for you.”

Angwang also “asked PRC Official-2 for taskings and volunteered to assist PRC Official-2 by providing information from NYPD systems,” court papers say.

Angwang also allegedly “provided Consulate officials access to senior NYPD officials through invitations to official NYPD events.”

He allegedly called and texted PRC Official-2’s cellphone at least 55 times between June 2018 and March 2020. Earlier, he also called and texted another contact at the consulate — “PRC Official-1” — at least 53 times between Aug. 21, 2014, and Aug. 11, 2017, court papers say.

Wiretapped phone conversations allegedly caught Angwang boasting about his NYPD job, including by telling his handler to let his bosses “know, hey, you have someone in the police here” and saying they “should be happy…because you have stretched your reach into the police.”

Angwang also “stated that his motivation to be promoted in the NYPD was to assist the PRC and bring ‘glory to China’” and that if he “could not be promoted within the NYPD, he stated that ‘he might as well as be a government employee in China,’” according to court papers.

Angwang came to the US on a cultural exchange visa, overstayed a second visa and sought asylum on grounds he had allegedly been arrested and tortured in China “due partly to his Tibetan ethnicity,” court papers say.

But “despite alleging torture and persecution at the hands of PRC security officials, Angwang has traveled back to the PRC on numerous occasions since his asylum application was granted,” court papers say.

Both his parents are members of the Chinese Communist Party, with his dad a retired soldier in the People’s Liberation Army and his mom a retired government worker, court papers say.

He also has a brother who’s a PLA reservist, and all three family members live in China, court papers say.

Angwang was hired by the NYPD on Jan. 6, 2016, and most recently earned about $53,500 during fiscal 2019, according to online city payroll records.

But in April and May 2016, he wired a total of $150,000 to his brother and another person in China, suggesting that he was “significant financial resources in the US,” court papers say.

In addition, he’s allegedly “received multiple substantial wire transfers from the PRC,” including nearly $50,000 from his brother in May 2016.

He and his wife also “received separate credits of $50,000 and $20,000 from an account held in the name of an individual at the Bank of China in New York” in 2014, court papers say.

Angwang is a member of the US Army reserve who holds the rank of staff sergeant and is part of an Airborne Civil Affairs battalion stationed at Fort Dix, New Jersey, where court papers say he “assists in planning, training, advising and executing civil-military programs.”

He holds a “secret” security clearance from the Defense Department, and in May 2019 allegedly lied on an eligibility form that he also previously filled out in 2014 by denying that he had any contact with a foreign government or its representatives, or had maintained contact with his relatives with ties to the Chinese Army.

Angwang also appeared in a US Marine Corps dress uniform at a Police Benevolent Association event in November, during which he posed with officials including PBA President Pat Lynch, according to a since-deleted Facebook post.

At the time, the PBA described him as a Marine sergeant who “served 1 tour in Iraq and 2 tours in Afghanistan.”

The USMC didn’t immediately return a request for comment.

In addition to charges of illegally acting as an agent of a foreign government and making false statements, Angwang is charged with wire fraud for collecting a Department of Defense paycheck and obstruction of an official proceeding for allegedly lying on his clearance applications.

If convicted, he faces a maximum 55 years in prison.

Angwang was ordered held without bond after declining to seek release during a brief, remote video appearance in Brooklyn federal court.

He said only “Yes, your honor,” in a firm voice to a series of procedural questions from Magistrate Judge Roanne Mann, who didn’t schedule his next appearance.

Additional reporting by Gabrielle Fonrouge

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A pregnant woman whose belly was allegedly cut open by her husband with a sickle in India has given birth to a stillborn baby boy, according to police.

The 35-year old woman, named locally as Anita Devi, was about seven months pregnant when her husband sliced her stomach in order to check the baby’s gender, according to the woman’s family.

The couple have five daughters and the husband was allegedly pressuring his wife to deliver him a son. According to Ms Devi’s brother, the couple used to fight regularly over having a son.

Speaking to the Times of India, the brother said: “My brother-in-law often used to beat my sister for giving birth to five daughters. Our parents had intervened on several occasions. But no one imagined that he would take such a cruel step.”

“When I reached there, I saw blood everywhere. Anita’s stomach was slit, and she told me that her husband did this.”

The 43-year old man, named locally as Pannalal, has been arrested on charges of attempted murder. He has denied intentionally hurting his wife, claiming it was an accident.

He told local media that he threw the sickle at his wife during an argument, but had no idea that she would be injured so gravely.

“I have five daughters, one of my sons is dead. I know that children are the gift of God. Now whatever is to happen, will happen,” he said

The incident occured in the Badaun region of India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh. Ms Devi was taken to Delhi on advice of her doctor on Sunday, where she remains in a critical condition.

According to claims reported in the Times of India, Pannalal took the drastic step after being convinced by a local priest that his wife was having another girl. He initially tried to get Ms Devi to have an abortion, but when she refused, he took extreme action.

There is a historical cultural norm in India that favours sons over daughters, which has resulted in a skewed gender ratio in the country.

According to a report from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), approximately 46 million girls have gone missing in India in the past 50 years. 460,000 girls are killed every year through abortion after gender-based sex selection and excess female mortality due to deliberate neglect of girls after birth.

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An intersection in Minneapolis will now be named after George Floyd, following a unanimous city council vote Friday.

The site where Floyd drew his last breath, at the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue, has since been transformed into a memorial site and maintained by volunteers.

“The name is intended to honor George Perry Floyd Jr., who was killed on May 25, 2020,” Minneapolis Director of Public Works Robin Hutcheson said in a land use application summary.

“The commemorative name addition will not affect addressing on the street. The signage to indicate the commemorative street naming will be placed at the intersection of 38th St E and Chicago Ave only,” Hutcheson said.

Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police contributed to the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, with Floyd and other Black victims of police violence, like Breonna Taylor, becoming the faces of the movement.

CNN’s Harmeet Kaur contributed to this report.

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