San Marcos
Many young women answered bogus newspaper advertisements for a telemarketing job with Management Control Services. Some of them may have become victims of more than false advertising.
George Peterson Petropoulous, who allegedly used the scam to recruit teen-agers for sex, was arrested Friday night by San Diego County Sheriff’s Department detectives from the sex crimes and child abuse division, ending an investigation that began in September, 1986.
Sheriff’s Sgt. Suzanne Hatcher said the 45-year-old Carlsbad resident reportedly attracted his victims through help-wanted ads in local newspapers, then propositioned them during a job interview.
Petropoulous was booked into the County Jail in Vista on suspicion of 10 charges of oral copulation with a minor, 10 counts of forcible oral copulation, and one of possession of a concealed unlicensed handgun, according to a jail spokesman. Bail was set at $300,500.
On Friday, deputies searched Petropoulous’ home on Avenida de Anita and his office on San Marcos Boulevard in San Marcos, where business records and other evidence supporting the allegations were confiscated, according to Hatcher. Petropoulous was arrested without incident.
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