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- #### PHRACK PRESENTS ISSUE 16 ####
- ^*^*^*^Phrack World News, Part 5^*^*^*^
- **** File 12 of 12 ****
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- "Phone Companies Across U.S. Want Coins Box Thief's Number"
- From the Tribune - Thursday, Nov. 5, 1987
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- SAN FRANCISCO - Seven telephone companies across the country, including
- Pacific Bell, are so frazzled by a coin box thief that they are offering a
- reward of $25,000 to catch him.
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- He's very clever, telephone officials say, and is the only known suspect in
- the country that is able to pick the locks on coin boxes in telephone
- booths with relative ease.
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- He is believed responsible for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from
- coin boxes in the Bay Area and Sacramento this year.
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- The suspect has been identified by authorities as James Clark, 47, of
- Pennisula, Ohio, a machinist and tool-and-die maker, who is believed
- responsible for coin box thefts in 24 other states.
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- Other companies sharing in the reward are Ohio Bell, Southern Bell, South
- Carolina Bell, South Central Bell, Southwestern Bell, Bell Telephone of
- Pennsylvania and U.S. West.
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- Clark allegedly hit pay phones that are near freeways and other major
- thoroughfares. Clark, described as 5 feet 9 inches tall, with shoulder
- length brown hair and gold-rimmed glasses, is reported to be driving a new
- Chevrolet Astro van painted a dark metallic blue.
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- He was recently in Arizona but is believed to be back in California.
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- Written by a Tribune Staff Writer
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- Typed by the $muggler
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