United States v. Freeman

MEMORANDUM ENTRY

NOLAND, District Judge.

Defendant is charged in a four count indictment with devising a scheme and artifice intended to defraud the Indiana Bell Telephone Company by the use of a “blue box” to place long distance telephone calls. The “blue box” is a mechanical device which may be placed on the caller’s telephone line so as to utilize the box’s electronics components to bypass or avoid the recording mechanisms of the company and, thus, make long distance telephone calls without paying for them. This, the indictment alleges, constitutes fraud by wire in violation of 18 U.S.C. §…