Residents of a Vista neighborhood received a special message from San Diego County Sheriff's deputies on Wednesday morning -- a convicted sex offender was moving in nearby.
The notification about the change of residence of Mark William Pliska is due to provisions of the state law governing convicted sex offenders known as Megan's Law.
Pliska lived in the incorporated part of Vista since 2007, part of the San Diego Sheriff's jurisdiction and recently moved into the city of Vista on Stiles court.
At 9 a.m., deputies, Vista detectives and members of the multiagency group SAFE, short for Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement Team, went door-to-door within a 1/4 radius of his new abode to notify residents, according to deputy Kirsti Lorek.
Pliska earned the public notification because of his past convictions.
These include a 1983 sentence and probation for his conviction on two counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 and one count of furnishing marijuana to a minor, Lorek said.
He was arrested in 1998 for indecent exposure, drawing further custody time and probation. He violated terms of his release in 2001 and was eventually committed to Atascadero State Hospital as a mentally disordered sex offender for four years.
Pliska was released in 2006 after a judicial determination of his fitness for re-entry into society.
Currently, Pliska isn't wanted and not on parole or probation, Lorek said.
You can learn more about this man and other sex offenders in the database at www.meganslaw.ca.gov.
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