Man Pleads Guilty to Trading Drugs for Sex With Teens

Felix F. Maron, a former restaurant owner from El Toro, pleaded guilty Thursday to supplying drugs to teen-age girls in exchange for sex, said the prosecutor in the case.

Deputy Dist. Atty. Marvin A. Stern said Maron faces a maximum 10-year sentence on the 153 counts. The restaurateur traded cocaine for sex with seven girls, the youngest of whom was 14.

Maron, 54, was arrested Aug. 16, 1985, at his Sleepy Hollow Terrace home, the neighborhood where the incidents took place.

Maron’s attorney, Gary L. Proctor, could not be reached for comment Thursday.

Stern said that Maron, a native of Peru who has been free on $100,000 bond since October, faces sentencing by Superior Court Judge Leonard H. McBride on Jan. 20.

Stern said that Maron faces no more than 10 years because of a state law governing multiple counts of crimes where neither violence nor the use of a weapon is involved. Under provisions of the law, the maximum sentence in such cases can be no more than twice the maximum for a single count--in this case, five years for having unlawful sex with a minor.