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"Phone Companies Across U.S. Want Coins Box Thief's Number"
From the Tribune - Thursday, Nov. 5, 1987
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.
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.
He is believed responsible for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from
coin boxes in the Bay Area and Sacramento this year.
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.
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.
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.
He was recently in Arizona but is believed to be back in California.
