Someone shoulda called Lieutenant Vincent Hanna
Posted on 03/02/2011 9:26:46 PM PST by slotin flash
FREMONT, Calif. -- A group of about 15 armed robbers raided a high-tech company in Fremont on Sunday morning, tying up employees and stealing computer components, police said Tuesday.
The suspects took over Unigen Corp., located at 45388 Warm Springs Road, at about 8:45 a.m., Sgt. Chris Mazzone said.
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Is this a corporate raid?
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Someone shoulda called Lieutenant Vincent Hanna
Potheads with the munchies made a little mistake.
I hope someone gets em.
When comes to robbas there’s no strength in numbers. Someone’s gonna blab, and they’ve got fifteen potentials.
WHat does the company manufacture or build? Not stated in article, do they do software related to defense or is this gaming material?
Are the Chi-coms behind this? Only said partly in jest.
* Flash Memory
o Solid State Drive
o CompactFlash
o PCMCIA
o USB FLASH
o SD Card
* Memory Module
o DDR3
o DDR2
o DDR
o SDRAM
* Wireless Module
o IEEE 802.11 b/g/n (WiFi)
o Cypress Proprietary
o IEEE 802.15.1 (Bluetooth)
o UHF
o TBD Products
I worked for two companies that were victim to enormous heists. In 1999 over the 4th of July weekend we had more than $200,000 worth of Intel TSOP flash memory stolen.
Years earlier at another company we had over $50,000 worth of Motorola 68K processors stolen.
Most surface mount components are shipped in a format known as "Tape and Reel" on reels shrink wrapped in anti-static bags and shipped in boxes about the size of a pizza box. You could easily fit a million dollars worth of components in the back of a sub-compact.
In a matter of hours they will go to auction in a number of chinese language online component clearing houses, inside of a week they will be in a factory in Guangdong Province intermingled with legitimate components by both knowing and unknowing brokers and inside of a month their on the shelf at Wal-Mart.
I worked for two companies that were victim to enormous heists. In 1999 over the 4th of July weekend we had more than $200,000 worth of Intel TSOP flash memory stolen.
Years earlier at another company we had over $50,000 worth of Motorola 68K processors stolen.
Most surface mount components are shipped in a format known as "Tape and Reel" on reels shrink wrapped in anti-static bags and shipped in boxes about the size of a pizza box. You could easily fit a million dollars worth of components in the back of a sub-compact.
In a matter of hours they will go to auction in a number of chinese language online component clearing houses, inside of a week they will be in a factory in Guangdong Province intermingled with legitimate components by both knowing and unknowing brokers and inside of a month their on the shelf at Wal-Mart.
The reason is UNigen is well known for using bleeding edge SSD components.
They have some of the first Sandforce 1500+ and 1600+ Enterprise SLC and MLC SSDs on the market.
At over US$2k retail for a piece of electronics the size of two decks of playing cards, they are well worth the risk.
Welcome to the USA. Robbers stole 5 Cadillac Escalades from a dealer in Georgia last week. Nothing on them yet. Then, just this weekend, robbers stole a bike racers truck, 5 bikes, and all his tools and equipment.
As I post this, someone somewhere is being carjacked, shot, murdered, raped, robbed, home invaded, and whatever.
Let the LEO’s run on them.
I will pray on that.
It started with the shooting of Ronald Morris.
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