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Less than two weeks after two traveling magazine salesmen were charged with murdering a Northeast Heights couple, a man from the same company was arrested in California on rape charges.

Claremont, Calif., police say they charged Corey Finley with the Dec. 19 rape of a 22-year-old woman who admitted him into her house during a sales call. He is being held in lieu of $2 million bond.

Finley, 21, was employed by Integrity PGM, or Integrity Program, the same Nevada magazine sales company that sent Travis Rowley and Michael Lee to Albuquerque, said Detective Aaron Fate of the Claremont Police Department.

Albuquerque police say Rowley, 23, and Lee, 21, beat to death 79-year-old Tak Yi, and raped and beat to death his wife, Pung Yi, 69, in their home on Dec. 4. The two men had been dropped off in the Yis' neighborhood to sell magazine subscriptions.

In Claremont, Finley talked his way into a woman's home and then raped her, according to a Claremont Police Department news release.

"Things like this don't usually happen here," Fate said of Claremont, a college town of about 36,000, populated by students, business people and retirees. "It's normally quiet."

Integrity Program has not returned phone calls or e-mails from The Tribune.

Albuquerque and Claremont are considering new laws to discourage traveling sellers from coming knocking.

A proposed ordinance that will go before the Albuquerque City Council on Monday would establish a no-knock list for door-to-door sellers similar to the national no-call list for telemarketers.

It would also require soliciting companies to submit applications for permits along with information about the company and sworn statements that all the sellers had passed background checks.

Claremont police will meet with the city attorney next to discuss adopting similar laws, said Capt. Gary Jenkins.

That city has a law that prohibits any soliciting, but such ordinances were declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court, he said.

Instead, the city uses local tax laws to kick solicitors out of town, Jenkins said.

Albuquerque has also filed a lawsuit against Integrity Program, seeking punitive damages and a restraining order that would prohibit them from operating in the city.

Fate said Claremont has not discussed a lawsuit, but it might consider it once the criminal case against Finley has been concluded.