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The victim businesses often end up with huge phone bills, officials said, and the scam artists are long gone by the time the fraud is discovered. Prosecutors believe that Cruz twice broke into phone boxes also The employees had filed a complaint in 1989 accusing the Woodland Hills-based newspaper of freezing their wages, including unilaterally discontinuing merit increases without bargaining. "The court's decision concludes the fight over liability at last," said Ellen Greenstone, a Pasadena lawyer. Greenstone, who was notified of the court's decision Wednesday, said the NLRB has preliminarily determined that the company owes employees $1.2 million in back pay. Managing Editor Ron Kaye de last week.

"I thought I saw her the other day, driving down the street." City Councilman Richard Alar-con helped approve a $25,000 reward that loosened no tongues before it expired. A Glendale private investigator charged $1,000 for his initial work, and since has done $4,000 worth of labor free of charge because he grew close to the family and was obsessed by the case. A group of psychics even searched Lopez Canyon pro bono after they said their senses drew them to that site on a map. But none of the fruitless efforts was as painful as the police questioning of Pete Nevarez, which led some relatives to suspect he had a connection to the disappearance and others to defend him. LAPD Det Patti Ferguson, who first handled the Nevarez case, said that spouses often become suspects in missing-persons cases, but that investigators never found a finan RICARDO DeARATANHA Lob Angeles Timet at Lake Balboa on Wednesday.

on the spot or stringing it to a mobile phone," said Gary Sanderson, a spokesman for Pacific Bell. The quick-hit artist can rack up some enormous bills for the business, Sanderson said, calling countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and Central and South America. One nonprofit group in Los Angeles hit last fall had more than $30,000 in long-distance bills. "The best form of detection is when you have someone just re-, porting that they saw something that looks weird, like people lining up at a phone booth," Sanderson said. "And, of course, if you look over your bill you can say, 'Hey, I know I didn't call Lower Although at one point during the last 12 months Pacific Bell officials estimated they were seeing 10 to 15 new clip-on fraud cases a month, Sanderson said the scam has died down as more of the scam artists are caught and prosecuted.

NLRB Ruling based on employee performance. The newspaper appealed to the U.S Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia in 1991. The court sent the case back to the NLRB for. reconsideration on a legal issue, but the labor panel again ruled in favor of the employees. After the appeals court last year refused to hear the newspaper's second appeal, the Daily News asked the high court to rule.

The court denied the paper's request Tuesday without comment. Sandra Nevarez road between the laundermat and the Foothill Freeway, Alvidrez said, "I think she wants to come home and is waiting to come home, and it's up to us to find her." But shortly afterward, Alvidrez reluctantly nodded in agreement when her older brother, Rodriguez, said, "There's got to be an end. We have to accept the hand God dealt" V) 1 From A Times Staff Writer WOODLAND HILLS-Los Angeles Daily News reporters and other editorial employees have a won a major victory in a labor dispute that could net them more than $1 million in back wages. The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the newspaper's challenge to a lower court ruling that had upheld a decision in favor of the employees by the National Labor Relations Board, according to a lawyer representing them.

known as "b-boxes" outside of businesses in Simi Valley and then sold long-distance service to people on the street, said Deputy DisL Atty. David Lehr. Lehr would not comment on details of the case but said that Cruz pleaded not guilty to the phone fraud charges earlier this month and is scheduled to have a preliminary hearing next week. The Simi Valley Police Department was tight-lipped about the case, only saying that detectives are still investigating. Officials said that breaking into phone boxes and tapping into business lines are only the latest twists in telephone fraud enterprises that also include pirating cellular phone numbers and stealing phone credit card access numbers.

"They are usually working on off hours, breaking into the boxes and physically hooking up a phone line clined to comment except to note that the NLRB has set a hearing for April 7 during which the paper can contest the amount. The decision affects about 200 reporters, photographers, artists, editorial assistants and lab technicians, members of the Daily News unit of the Los Angeles Newspaper Guild, Greenstone said. The NLRB ruled in their favor in 1991. It said that Daily News management had improperly ended an "established practice" of granting annual wage increases cial gain or jealousy motive for Pete Nevarez. "We are in contact with him and he calls us at least once a week trying to find out if there has been any progress," the detective said "But until we know what happened to her, no one is considered innocent" Reached at his Sylmar home, Pete Nevarez said he has given up on appeals to suspicious in-laws and is eager to resolve the mystery that has tormented the family.

"Anybody can think whatever they want to think," he said, adding later: "I myself am at the point that if the bones are Sandra's remains, that means it was meant to be over with. But there's always that one chance out of a million that she is alive. You always keep one slim hope there." A few miles away, Nevarez's siblings echoed similar hopes at the home of sister Christine Alvidrez. Of the skeletal remains found in November along a narrow service Over 95 photo suppliers New products and services Talk with industry reps Special discounts and deals Drawings for valuable prizes Mini educational seminars Salon print exhibits MISSING: 2 Years Later, Mystery Remains Friday, January 31 Saturday, February 1 Sunday, February 2 http:www.PPConline.com SPONSORED BY PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS OF CALIFORNIA, INC. PROSPERITY 300 EAST GREEN STREET 1 1 AM 5 PM 11 AM -5 PM 10 AM -3 PM 1 EDITION the Net" Prices Jim.

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