< Walhem, MA: Phone Booth of 30 Years is Removed | | North Carolina: Cell-phone use growing among the homeless > Atlanta: Payphone Scammer Heads to Jail February 23, 2006 "An Atlanta man will spend the next 13 years in prison for defrauding more than 12,000 people out of $400 million in a payphone fraud scheme. U.S. District Judge Jack T. Camp sentenced Charles E. Edwards, 67, of Atlanta, to prison on charges of wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Edwards also was ordered to pay $320.4 million in restitution." Read more at the Atlanta Journal Constitution