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TWO TEENS ACCUSED OF CRACKING PHONES -- WHILE IN THE JAILHOUSE
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(Dec. 1)
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Two teen-agers in jail in San Jose, Calif., on computer cracking charges have
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lost their jailhouse phone privileges. That's because authorities say the boys
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used a jail phone to make illegal collect calls.
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Police told United Press International they believe the two -- Jonathan
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Yaantis, 18, and Michael Torrell, 19, both believed to be from Skagit County,
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Wash. -- made as many as three illegal calls from the county jail.
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UPI says the calls were made to a phone "bridge," or illegal conference-call
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network used by phone "phreakers," and billed to an unauthorized number in
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Virginia.
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"The first of the calls was made just two days after they were arrested,"
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said Sgt. Dave Flory of the San Jose Police Department's high technology
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crime unit.
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Yaantis and Michael Torrell were arrested Nov. 2 by a San Jose police officer
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who spotted them at a phone booth near a convenience store. He said they were
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operating a laptop computer attached by wires with alligator clips to the phone
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wires. Police said insulation had been stripped from the phone wires to allow
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the connection.
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Allegedly, one or both of the boys subsequently made calls from the jail to
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the cracker network on Nov. 6 and 7, Flory said. He added, "Their telephone
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privileges were cut off because we didn't want to be accessories, since they
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are in our custody."
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The wire service says the pair is charged with several felonies, including
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damaging the phone company's line, theft and illegal use of phone card charge
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numbers and possession of a device to avoid phone charges.
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