LONG BEACH : Man Arrested in Sale of Stolen Computer Chips

The executive director of a Long Beach business association was arrested this week on charges of trying to sell stolen computer chips to their original owner, police said.

Milo Manny Jones, 30, executive director of the Downtown Long Beach Associates, has been released on $10,000 bail and is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday. He has been suspended as executive director.

Police said Jones attempted to sell the stolen items during a computer trade show to their owner, who had reported the chips missing two weeks earlier.

The owner said he had accidentally left the chips in a black leather bag at a Signal Hill computer store. At the Long Beach trade show two weeks later, the businessman was approached by a man, later identified as Jones, who offered to sell him the same hardware, Detective Dennis Weaver said.

“The odds of a suspect trying to sell goods back to the victim are about as remote as winning the lottery,” the detective said.

Jones told police he bought the chips from a man who approached him in the computer store’s parking lot and that he did not know the goods were stolen, Weaver added.