Patrick Pespas, star of HBO’s recent Telemarketers docuseries, has been missing for several days, according to co-director Adam Bhala Lough.

On Saturday, Sept. 30, Bhala Lough posted on social media that Pespas has gone missing and his loved ones are “very worried about him.” Pespas was last seen at a bar in Pittsburgh called Knuckleheads and was driving a white Ford Mustang.

The filmmaker shared a text message from Pespas’s wife Sue – also featured in the documentary – who claims that the cops assigned to the case suspect drug use. “Do you know he called me back after speaking to my sister to yell at me for not telling him that Pat was on methadone. Then he made it seem like Pat was on a drug run. You know, once a junkie, always a junkie,” she wrote.

In the third and final part of the documentary series, which takes place in 2020, Pespas tells co-director and close friend Sam Lipman-Stern that he’s undergone drug treatment and credits his “lord and savior Jesus Christ” for saving his life. Pespas also expressed regret for his past behavior. 

Since Pespas’s disappearance, his Instagram account has since been updated to spread awareness.

Filmmaker Aaron Stewart Ahn shared a recent photo of Pespas on his story and wrote that Pespas is “the central figure, if not the hero” of Telemarketers, which takes a close look into the New Jersey call center Civic Development Group and its involvement with local police and fire departments to scam people into donating money. “It’s a staggeringly lucid portrait of scam culture weaponized by the police,” Ahn continued. 

In the final episode of the docuseries, Pespas and Lipman-Stern meet with Senator Richard Blumenthal at Capitol Hill to talk about their grassroots investigation and are quickly dismissed. Pespas tells the senator that legitimate police organizations are using telemarketing to defraud vulnerable populations. 

Later in the episode, Lipman-Stern points out the police memorabilia in the meeting room, to which Pespas says, “That’s every police department in Connecticut practically.”

Bhala Lough has encouraged his followers to direct message him with any tips, or reach out via findpatpespas@gmail.com. According to LA Times, Easton Police have encouraged folks with information on Pespas’s location to call 911.