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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20020925-9999-bumfights.html
Two of the four Las Vegas men charged in San Diego County with illegally soliciting homeless people to participate in "Bumfights," a reality video that shows them fighting and performing dangerous stunts are expected to surrender to authorities tomorrow in El Cajon.
Michael Joseph Slyman and Daniel Jamon Tanner, both 21, are expected to enter pleas immediately to charges of conspiracy, solicitation of a felony crime and illegally paying people to fight, according to Liz Pursell of the District Attorney's Office.
Two other Las Vegas residents, Zachary Bubeck, 24, and Ryan Edward McPherson, 19, were arrested recently after a three-month investigation by the La Mesa Police Department into the "Bumfights" tapes, said Lt. Raul Garcia.
Police also are investigating an allegation that the suspects threatened a witness in the case, Garcia said.
An Oct. 10 preliminary hearing is scheduled for Bubeck and McPherson.
The $19.99 videos -- 300,000-plus copies of which reportedly have been sold via the Internet -- show disheveled, bedraggled men engaging in fistfights and self-abuse, such as running headlong into steel doors and leaping off bridges.
The tape shows a man setting his hair on fire; a man who pulls out a tooth with pliers, and a man who voluntarily rams his head through fast-food restaurant signs, jumps off a building into a Dumpster and rides a shopping cart down a steep hill.
A Web site promoting "Bumfights, Vol. 1"touts it as "the world's fastest-selling independent video"and includes images of brawling, bloodied "drunks"and "crackheads"along with still photos of semi-clad women.
Its producers offered street people cash as well as food, liquor and hotel rooms in exchange for their participation. The producers also warned them not to report the arrangement to authorities, according to investigators.
One person suffered a broken leg during a taping session in La Mesa, the lieutenant said.
"They were offered money and moved to Las Vegas in furtherance of this act,"he added. They "have since returned to San Diego County and are cooperating with the criminal investigation,"Garcia said
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20020925-9999-bumfights.html
Two of the four Las Vegas men charged in San Diego County with illegally soliciting homeless people to participate in "Bumfights," a reality video that shows them fighting and performing dangerous stunts are expected to surrender to authorities tomorrow in El Cajon.
Michael Joseph Slyman and Daniel Jamon Tanner, both 21, are expected to enter pleas immediately to charges of conspiracy, solicitation of a felony crime and illegally paying people to fight, according to Liz Pursell of the District Attorney's Office.
Two other Las Vegas residents, Zachary Bubeck, 24, and Ryan Edward McPherson, 19, were arrested recently after a three-month investigation by the La Mesa Police Department into the "Bumfights" tapes, said Lt. Raul Garcia.
Police also are investigating an allegation that the suspects threatened a witness in the case, Garcia said.
An Oct. 10 preliminary hearing is scheduled for Bubeck and McPherson.
The $19.99 videos -- 300,000-plus copies of which reportedly have been sold via the Internet -- show disheveled, bedraggled men engaging in fistfights and self-abuse, such as running headlong into steel doors and leaping off bridges.
The tape shows a man setting his hair on fire; a man who pulls out a tooth with pliers, and a man who voluntarily rams his head through fast-food restaurant signs, jumps off a building into a Dumpster and rides a shopping cart down a steep hill.
A Web site promoting "Bumfights, Vol. 1"touts it as "the world's fastest-selling independent video"and includes images of brawling, bloodied "drunks"and "crackheads"along with still photos of semi-clad women.
Its producers offered street people cash as well as food, liquor and hotel rooms in exchange for their participation. The producers also warned them not to report the arrangement to authorities, according to investigators.
One person suffered a broken leg during a taping session in La Mesa, the lieutenant said.
"They were offered money and moved to Las Vegas in furtherance of this act,"he added. They "have since returned to San Diego County and are cooperating with the criminal investigation,"Garcia said
