CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
February 5, 1992 | JONATHAN GAW, TIMES STAFF WRITER
A telephone hacker who allegedly tied up lines at Palomar Hospital for hours at a time has been ordered to stand trial on dozens of felony wiretapping and eavesdropping counts. Rick Ivkovich is accused of using his touch-tone telephone to jam the lines of the Escondido hospital, bringing switchboard operators to tears.