Company owners plead guilty over drug-masking products

[Bravo Zulu]

Monday, November 24, 2008
By Paula Reed Ward, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The owners of the company that made the Whizzinator, a prosthetic penis used to mask illegal drugs in urine, pleaded guilty in federal court today to two counts of conspiracy.

Gerald Wills, the president of Puck Technology, based in Signal Hill, Calif., and Robert D. Catalano, the vice president, were charged by criminal complaint last month with selling two masking products, the Whizzinator and Number 1

Both were sold through their Web sites.

As part of the investigation, there were two undercover purchases of the products on Sept. 8, 2006, and Feb. 7, 2007.

Mr. Catalano and Mr. Wills pleaded guilty to conspiracy to sell drug paraphernalia and conspiracy to defraud the United States government.

Puck Technology also pleaded guilty to the same charges. The company has stopped operating.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08329/930439-100.stm

[tridim]

1. So it's now illegal to sell strap-ons?

I don't think that article tells the whole story.

Wonder how the sex toy industry feels about this?

[Donnachaidh]

2. I would think it would be illegal to have a strap on with someone else's fluids

Wasn't the purpose of the Whizzinator to bring in *clean* urine for drug tests? That would certainly constitute a conspiracy...

[Why Syzygy]

3. .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whizzinator

[tridim]

4. I know what it is, it's still a legal product.

And most likely not sold for the specific purpose to defeat drug tests. It's legal for the same reasons smoking supplies at head shops are.