He’d hand out business cards at hobbyist gatherings with promises of adventure, but in practice, he was mostly leading seminars in city parks for beer money.

Essentially, he had a graduate seminar in poetry.

A criminology student asked in a seminar how to get away with murder before stabbing a woman to death on a beach, a court has heard.

The event boasts a number of tasting seminars and cocktail-making sessions and typically features some upscale dinners at resort restaurants and bars.

After the seminar, Mondragon loaded up his white pickup truck with boxes of N95 masks, face shields and goggles to take back to his job site and share with the other workers.