Boing Boing: Hit-and-run thieves nab nearly $200K in microchips

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Hit-and-run thieves nab nearly $200K in microchips

A group of thieves in Santa Clara fled with about $190,000 in microchips after what police suspect was a planned fender-bender collision. The victim had just picked up about 100,000 microchips from a Santa Clara warehouse for his employer in Fremont when a white van rear-ended his silver Mazda MPV about 1 p.m. Tuesday, said Santa Clara police Detective David Tanquary.
While the victim and the van driver got out near Kifer Road and Bowers Avenue to inspect the damage, which was minor, another person slipped from the van and sped off in the Mazda, Tanquary said. The van driver then jumped back into his vehicle and drove off.

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Though $200K is a lot of money, these group of thieves think bigger. Think $12.7 million dollars. In just an hour, they piled 585 cartons and 18 pallets of microchips and motherboards manufactured by a multi-national company in Bayan Lepas into the containers. The loot estimated to be worth US$12.7mil (RM46.99mil) was said to be the country’s biggest ever heist. And arguably the most audacious, too. This heist would affect the bottomline of the companies involved, such as AMD, Intel and Motorola. Link to story.

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