LOCAL : Computer Chip Robbery in Irvine
Irvine police today were looking for several men who allegedly broke into an Irvine electronics firm Tuesday night and escaped with an undisclosed amount of computer chips (See earlier story, B1.)
Four or five men wearing masks and hoods entered the Centon Electronics Inc. building on Morgan Street about 8:30 p.m. and handcuffed and bound three employees, Irvine Lt. Vic Thies said. The men were armed with handguns and shotguns, he said.
The robbers had fled by the time police arrived, Thies said, and the employees were unharmed.
Thies said the robbery was similar to a rash of thefts in Southern California, particularly Orange County, that have cost companies millions of dollars in computer chips.
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