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ROBBERS HIT SIMI TECH SHOP; ARMED MEN SLIP OFF WITH COMPUTER CHIPS.


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Four bandits held a shopkeeper at gunpoint and made off with an estimated $300,000 in computer chips, authorities said Friday.

Donald Hummel hummel

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, 22, of Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969.  was leaving Ventura Tech Group, 855 Easy St., about 8 p.m. Thursday when he was confronted by the four men in their 20s, one of whom was brandishing two handguns, police said.

The suspects forced Hummel back into the store, where they restrained him before removing numerous boxes of computer chips, police said. Hummel was not injured.

``It's actually a fairly common crime in California, but not in Simi Valley,'' said police Sgt. Bob Gardiner James Robbins (Bob) Gardiner (born 1951) was an animator who helped pioneer what would become known as Claymation. He was born in Torrance, California and died in Grass Valley, California, on April 21, 2005. . ``Some of the theft of computer equipment is organized crime-related, but I can't tell you about this one because we don't have enough information.''
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Oct 17, 1998
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