To Catch a Predator · Riverside County investigation
Greg Karnos
Greg Karnos appeared in the Riverside County, California investigation. He pleaded guilty in 2009 and received eight years in prison with credit for three years already served.
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- Outcome
- Sentenced
- Evidence
- Attributed reporting
- Jurisdiction
- Riverside County, California
- Encounter
- Not established
- Decoy posed as
- Girl3
- Case number
- Not established
Personal details
- Born
- May 18, 1956
- Occupation
- Telecommunications manager
- Marital status
- Married
- Height
- 6′0″
- Weight
- 190 lb
- Eyes
- Gray
Charges & sentence
Sentence
8 years in prison with credit for 3 years already served; continued registration.
Attributed to the sources below. Consult the original record for full terms.
Case records
Hansen investigation2009 · Sentenced
Separate criminal matter1999 · Sentenced
Lewd acts involving minors (reported prior conviction)
Convicted6
Sentence · 1999
Eighteen months imprisonment and five years probation.6
Separate 1999 matter described in the archived account. Exact statute and count quantity remain unknown. Eighteen months imprisonment and five years probation are expressly reported. The NBC article could not be independently reopened in this review.
Sources 6
Case narrative
Aftermath
In Riverside, Greg was originally charged with two felonies: attempted lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age and attempted forcible sexual penetration with a foreign object. His bail was set at $50,000. The District Attorney's office requested that his bail be raised to $1 million because he had two prior felony convictions. Greg was immediately taken into custody once Judge Schwartz gave his approval. In 2009, Greg ended up pleading guilty to the former charge and was sentenced to eight years in prison with credit for three years of time served, and continued lifetime registration as a well above average risk sex offender.
2023 update
Hansen attempted to reach out to Greg for an interview after obtaining a couple of phone numbers belonging to him, but Greg did not respond.
Trivia
Greg is second behind both Michael Seibert and Robert Lyons as having the highest bail of any predator featured in Hansen's predator investigations. Seibert, after being arrested in the Long Beach sting, had his set at $1.1 million due to his prior involvement in the Riverside sting. Lyons, who had previously been convicted for having sex with an underage male prostitute, also had his bail set at $1.1 million.
Community-written, from the To Catch a Predator Wiki. Not independently verified, and it does not establish charges or court outcomes.
Greg Karnos, To Catch a Predator Wiki contributors; see revision and history links. · CC-BY-SA
Media
Sources
- 1106: Greg Karnos on MegaphonePublic episode metadata matches the publisher RSS recording by title, release date and exact enclosure identifier. Reviewed publisher title/description names this profile as the subject of the recording.
- 2106: Greg Karnos on SpotifyPublic episode metadata matches the publisher RSS recording by title, release date and exact enclosure identifier. Reviewed publisher title/description names this profile as the subject of the recording.
- 3Greg Karnos (community wiki)Attributed community article. Revision date describes the article update, not a court or sting event. Full infobox, narrative sections, references and assets are retained in the private archive.
- 4Greg Karnos: occupation informationThe profile infobox lists these occupations. Undated roles do not establish current employment.
- 5Greg Karnos: legal outcome (revision 15800)8 years in prison with credit for 3 years already served; continued registration.
- 6Greg Karnos: archived criminal-history narrativeAftermath reports 2009 guilty plea to attempted lewd acts under fourteen; the initial attempted-forcible-penetration allegation has no stated final disposition. Biography reports an earlier lewd-acts conviction.