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The lawyer for one of the masseurs who recently sued John Travolta for sexual assault today moved to dismiss his client’s federal lawsuit, according to court records.

The “notice of dismissal” by the masseur--identified only as “John Doe 1” in court papers--was filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles by attorney Okorie Okorocha. The one-page notice offers no explanation for the dismissal of the $2 million complaint, which was filed just 11 days ago.

Days after Okorocha filed the May 4 lawsuit, the Pasadena attorney amended the complaint to add a second plaintiff--“John Doe 2”--who made similar claims that the 58-year-old actor groped him during a massage. Today’s dismissal notice does not affect the assault, sexual battery, civil rights, and emotional distress claims made by the second mystery masseur.

Travolta has denied the allegations leveled by the unnamed duo. The star also offered proof that he was not in Los Angeles on January 16, the date “John Doe 1” claimed he was manhandled in a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Okorocha was subsequently forced to acknowledge that his client had botched the date of the purported hotel encounter.

Meet Mark Allan Sperry.

The Ohio man, 45, has been incarcerated in the Butler County lockup since last Tuesday, when he was collared for failing to appear for a court hearing in a child support case.

According to the jail’s web site, Sperry is a 5’ 8” white male who weighs 168 pounds and has brown hair and brown eyes.

However, based on the above mug shot--which is on the jail web site--Sperry appears to be about eight inches tall with black hair and black eyes. And he seems to have an affinity for acorns.

It is unclear how the cuddly squirrel puppet’s photo appeared in place of Sperry, who is next due in court on June 5. Ditto as to the identity of the unseen puppet master.

To review similar instances of mug shot hijinks, click here, here, here, here, and here.

5/15 UPDATE: Jailers have now replaced the squirrel image with an actual photo of Sperry (click here to view).  

A Texas man was arrested yesterday for indecent exposure after cops and scores of witnesses spotted him riding a unicycle naked over a bridge.

Joseph Farley, 45, can be seen atop his unicycle in the above photo, which was snapped by a motorist crossing the Highway 146 bridge in Kemah, a city 30 miles southeast of Houston.

Farley, who was not intoxicated, apparently stripped off his clothes at the base of the bride before beginning his one-wheel sojourn sans attire. He explained to cops that he enjoyed the experience of naked unicycling.

Booked into the Galveston County jail, Farley--pictured in the adjacent mug shot--is being held on lieu of $1500 on the misdemeanor charge.

As seen below, NSFW dash cam footage released by the Kemah Police Department shows Farley dismounting the unicycle after a cop pulled up next to him. A dispatcher can be heard in the background on a police radio relaying a witness account of a perp “riding a unicycle and he’s not wearing any clothes.” After the officer confiscated his ride, a cooperative Farley immediately turned around and clasped his hands so that he could be handcuffed.

A “pair of large fleshy testicles” led to the arrest last night of a South Carolina motorist, according to police.

While on routine patrol, a Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office deputy spotted a Lincoln pickup truck “displaying an obscene object from the rear bumper.” Specifically, the deputy noted in a report, the object was a pair of testicles that were “flesh colored, anatomically correct, approximately the size of a softball, and in clear view of the public.”

In response to the testicles, the deputy initiated a traffic stop and questioned the driver, Joe Cervantes-Rodriguez. The cop “advised the driver of the reason for the stop being the large testicles, and he immediately removed them from the back bumper.”

Cervantes-Rodriguez told the deputy that he had moved to the U.S. six months ago from Mexico and had ended up in South Carolina after stays in Texas and Georgia. But while able to produce a vehicle registration and proof of insurance, Cervantes-Rodriguez did not have a valid driver’s license. As a result, he was arrested.

After spending the night in jail, Cervantes-Rodriguez (seen in the adjacent mug shot) was released from custody this morning after posting $237.50 bond. He was also issued a “warning citation” for displaying the testicles.

A woman who purchased a box of tampons Sunday at a Utah store returned home to find that the feminine care products were filled with cocaine, police report.

The discovery by shopper Cindy Davidson has prompted an investigation by Salt Lake City cops, who suspect that the stuffed tampons were part of a drug smuggling scheme that somehow went off the rails.

Davidson purchased the tampons at the NPS Store, which describes itself as a “salvage and freight recovery company that sells its products in two stores in Salt Lake City.” The cut-rate retailer sells a variety of merchandise that it obtains from “misdirected or damaged freight.”

Davidson, who had gone to the store to purchase Crest Whitestrips, bought the Boots brand tampons “bcuz they were cheap,” according to a posting on her Facebook page. Davidson, a 39-year-old mother of two, added that she had never heard of Boots, which are produced by a British-based health and beauty conglomerate.

After discovering the stash hidden inside the applicators of individual tampons, Davidson (pictured at left) called police, who conducted a field test and confirmed that the powdery substance was cocaine.

After cops left with the narcotics and the tampons, Davidson sent her 300 friends a Facebook message “No one would ever believe what has happened 2 me 2nite. I bought a package of tampons filled with cocaine bags,” she wrote. “I have had hazmat and the police at my house all night. I will post details as they become available. Totally tripping out.”

The remaining Boots tampons have been removed from the Utah store's shelves as police attempt to backtrack the source of the cocaine (and to determine whether other packages contain narcotics).

5/2 UPDATE: FBI's confidential informant is unmasked

The federal probe that resulted last night in the arrest of five purported anarchists for allegedly plotting to bomb an Ohio bridge began last year at an Occupy Wall Street rally in Cleveland that was infiltrated by an informant who was directed to attend the event by his FBI handlers.

It was at the October 21 OWS event that the informant first met Douglas Wright, 26, who reportedly confided details of his group’s planned attacks “against corporate America and the financial system,” according to court filings.

Pictured above, Wright eventually served as the informant’s bridge to the four other men busted in the bombing plot--despite the fact that the quartet was “unsure” about the snitch for whom Wright vouched. Of the five men arrested, four were involved in the Occupy Cleveland movement, according to their Facebook profiles, a news story, and a federal criminal complaint.

Other highlights, as it were, from the U.S. District Court records include:

* As the alleged plotters batted around assorted attack ideas--like bombing a “Nazi/Klan headquarters” or blowing up a Federal Reserve bank--Wright joked that he would wear a suicide vest and blow himself up, “but advised he would have to be very drunk.”

* A local Justice Center was considered a good target, but a bombing there was rejected since the accused plotters believed “they would risk hurting inmates.”

* Wright suggested using Google Maps to figure out the area near the Cleveland-area bridge “where the bombs will be dropped and the get-away route."

* Defendant Brandon Baxter, 20, mused that if the plotters were caught, “they will all go to Guantanamo Bay” and not a “normal prison.”

* Baxter also “suggested getting tacks that they could throw out of the back of the car if they get in a chase.” This getaway tactic was last successfully used in a Batman episode from 1967.