The Nation - News from April 30, 1989

Twenty-two employees at Compaq Computer Corp. in Houston have been charged with stealing computer chips and trading them for cocaine and marijuana, police said. The arrests capped a six-month undercover investigation that began after police were tipped to the illegal activities, said Capt. Mike Smith of the Sheriff’s Department. The company, which has 4,000 employees and is the nation’s third-largest maker of personal computers, hired a private investigator who posed as an employee to help police in making drug transactions, he said.