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OAKLAND — A judge on Friday shot down Yusuf Bey IV's attempt to dismiss kidnapping and torture charges against him, quickly ruling that there remains "incredibly damaging" evidence. Bey IV's lawyer Anne Beles, argued that her client's rights were violated in April when another judge refused to allow a witness to testify at a preliminary hearing after which Bey IV was ordered to stand trial in the case. That decision was the second time a judge ruled there was enough evidence to proceed with the case against the 23-year-old former CEO of the defunct Your Black Muslim Bakery. An earlier...

A former Your Black Muslim Bakery associate wanted in two California counties has been arrested in St. Louis. A St. Louis Metropolitan Police spokeswoman confirmed Friday the arrest of Ajuwon Fardjamaal Muhammad, 25, but couldn't immediately provide any details on the circumstances. An online court records system indicates he's charged there with misdemeanor interference with legal process. Muhammad is wanted in Alameda County for his alleged role in the New Year's Eve beating of an East Oakland man; he's charged with battery with serious bodily injury and criminal threats. Police case notes say victim Jerome Muhammad reported eight to 12...

(05-06) 10:56 PDT OAKLAND -- The 90-year-old father of slain journalist Chauncey Bailey flew in from Iowa to be in the gallery Wednesday as the leader of the now-defunct Your Black Muslim Bakery made his first court appearance since being charged with ordering the 2007 murder. However, Chauncey Bailey Sr. and other relatives who sat in the Oakland courtroom turned out to be witness to uneventful proceedings, much to their dismay. Neither bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV, 23, nor another man accused of taking part in the Oakland Post editor's slaying, Antoine Mackey, 23, had defense attorneys to handle the...

Law catching up with Your Black Muslim Bakery By Josh Richman and Mary Fricker The Chauncey Bailey Project Posted: 05/09/2009 03:04:36 PM PDT Updated: 05/09/2009 03:51:55 PM PDT Until recently, Devaughndre Broussard was the only Your Black Muslim Bakery associate ever charged with murder, despite a decades-long trail of eight bodies authorities say they have linked to the organization or its founding Bey family. Now, Broussard and two others are charged not only with the August 2007 killing of Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey, slain amid his investigation of the bakery, but in two other killings as well. Broussard, a...

OAKLAND — Police internal affairs detectives investigating the handling of journalist Chauncey Bailey's slaying will have state investigators present when they interview members of their department's command staff. Investigators from the attorney general's office will be there to monitor the interviews, according to a letter the Department of Justice sent to Mayor Ron Dellums in November. But the Justice Department won't take over the whole investigation — which is apparently what Oakland internal affairs investigators wanted, the letter stated. "We do not believe, as has been suggested by the Police Department's Internal Affairs investigator, that the Police Department investigation be...

Armed robbers terrorized Oakland restaurants and small businesses in three separate crime sprees over the past year. The first wave targeted Asian eateries and struck during the 2007 holiday season. The second arrived last spring and was more indiscriminate. The third struck in July and August. All three made newspaper headlines and led television newscasts, shining a spotlight on the city's out-of-control crime problem and the Oakland Police Department's apparent inability to cope with it. In fact, the department's public response to the takeover robberies was both odd and illuminating. The department's mantra for dealing with the city's crime spike...

Pentagon Makes Fighting Extremism Top Priority Seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Pentagon on Thursday officially named "the long war" against global extremism as its top priority and pledged to avert any conventional military threat from China or Russia through dialogue. The Defense Department, in a new national defense strategy, also emphasized the need to subordinate military operations to "soft power" initiatives to undermine Islamist militancy by promoting economic, political and social development in vulnerable corners of the world. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he hoped the change would help establish permanent institutional support for counterinsurgency skills...

A New York man was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison after a jury convicted him of stealing submarine parts from the Navy and selling them for scrap.Frank E. Spaulding, 37, also known as Khalif Immanuel Bey, confessed to stealing submarine acoustic domes in December 2006 after the parts had been removed from the Hampton, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.Spaulding sold the parts, worth $21,000, to a local scrap yard for about $2,000, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

OAKLAND -- The former head of Your Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland and an associate of the now-defunct business pleaded no contest today to vandalism in connection with the trashing of two liquor stores in the city in 2005. Yusuf Bey IV, 22, the son of the bakery's late leader, Yusuf Bey, pleaded no contest to all eight charges against him, including vandalism, false imprisonment, hate-crime and civil-rights violations. He is expected to be sentenced to three years in state prison.Bakery associate Dyamen Williams, 21, pleaded no contest to vandalism and could face up to a year in county jail.On...

OAKLAND — Former employees and supporters of the defunct Your Black Muslim Bakery have scheduled a rally for Aug. 2 — the one-year anniversary of journalist Chauncey Bailey's killing — to call for an investigation into the business's demise. "This is the anniversary of the closing of the bakery and the event is about getting to the truth, getting to justice and making sure that whoever is guilty of any crime be brought before the bar of justice, because right now the truth is not being told," said rally organizer Henry Clark. The date was chosen to commemorate "police attacking...

OAKLAND - An associate of Your Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland who had been charged in a kidnap-torture plot switched sides and testified today against four accused accomplices, including bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV. Joshua Bey, 19, reached a plea deal with prosecutors Tuesday. But the agreement wasn't publicly divulged until today during a preliminary hearing in Alameda County Superior Court in Oakland for bakery associates accused of beating and threatening a woman with a hot curling iron if she didn't tell them where a friend kept his money. Defense attorneys for Bey IV and the three remaining defendants complained...

Politicians knew it. The community knew it. The police knew it. If you really wanted to connect with voters in troubled northwest Oakland, ... , all roads led to the late Yusuf Bey and his Your Black Muslim Bakery on San Pablo Avenue. Bey and his followers knew they had political clout. They used it to great advantage in obtaining money from the city, lenient sentences from judges, and a virtual hands-off approach from the Police Department - even though evidence now shows that the bakery's leadership was implicated in serious crimes. Jerry Brown - former governor, now state attorney...

As the late Yusuf Bey built Your Black Muslim Bakery into an empire of wealth and influence, he also orchestrated a systematic welfare fraud scheme at his Oakland compound, three of his former wives have testified. By the wives' sworn account, Bey directed many of the 100 women whom he considered his wives to make fraudulent applications for government aid programs intended to assist poor families, then diverted the benefits to himself. Bey's alleged fraud scheme began in the 1970s and continued in some form until his death in 2003, according to the women, who gave depositions in a negligence...

As the late Yusuf Bey built Your Black Muslim Bakery into an empire of wealth and influence, he also orchestrated a systematic welfare fraud scheme at his Oakland compound, three of his former wives have testified. By the wives' sworn account, Bey directed many of the 100 women whom he considered his wives to make fraudulent applications for government aid programs intended to assist poor families, then diverted the benefits to himself. Bey's alleged fraud scheme began in the 1970s and continued in some form until his death in 2003, according to the women, who gave depositions in a negligence...

# Transactions were made to defraud creditors of Your Black Muslim Bakery, trustee says The bankruptcy court trustee in charge of liquidating Your Black Muslim Bakery is going after three properties worth $2.28 million that the bakery gave its CEO's mother in what the trustee claims was an attempt to hide those assets from creditors. Attorneys for trustee Tevis Thompson filed a complaint Tuesday against Daulet Bey, who turns 50 on Monday and is mother to eight children of the bakery's late founder and patriarch, Yusuf Ali Bey. Among those children is Yusuf Ali Bey IV, 21, the bakery's current...

The late Yusuf Bey's son-in-law said Monday that he was the main news source for a series Chauncey Bailey was writing about Your Black Muslim Bakery and that he was stunned to learn the journalist may have been killed over it. Saleem Bey, 43, said that he and Bailey were longtime acquaintances and that the two had decided a few weeks ago to collaborate for an exposé on the bakery's decline since its founder, Yusuf Bey, died and his son Yusuf Bey IV took over. Saleem Bey, who spent 10 years working with Yusuf Bey in the bakery and is...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A young Black Muslim leader already charged with vandalizing a West Oakland liquor store was jailed today for allegedly using his BMW to run down a bouncer after being thrown out of a San Francisco strip club, police said. Yusuf Bey IV, 20, son of the late Black Muslim leader Yusuf Bey, was booked on suspicion of attempted murder and aggravated assault after he allegedly ran over one bouncer and tried to hit a second with his car outside the New Century Theater on Larkin Street, authorities said. He was being held without bail. Bey went to...

Police: Your Black Muslim Bakery worker acted as a lookout in attacks OAKLAND — A convicted burglar already in custody on a parole violation has been arrested as the eighth suspect in the vandalizing of two West Oakland liquor stores in November, police said Monday. Police said Elijah Allen, 33, also known as James Watts, will be arraigned Wednesday in Alameda County Superior Court on at least four criminal charges, including vandalism and false imprisonment. Police said Allen, like the other seven suspects arrested to date, was employed at Your Black Muslim Bakery. Sgt. Dom Arotzarena said Allen has admitted...

Bakery empire heir accused in Oakland vandalism now must answer in Vallejo From Staff ReportsInside Bay Area Yusuf Bey IV, already being prosecuted in the vandalism of two West Oakland liquor stores, is facing new criminal charges in Vallejo of fraudulently obtaining a luxury car, authorities said Thursday. Bey, 20, who heads a business empire anchored by Your Black Muslim Bakery, was arrested by Berkeley police Wednesday night on a $15,000 Vallejo warrant. The warrant charges Bey with grand theft of a vehicle, obtaining property under false pretenses, false impersonation and possessing a forged driver's license. A Berkeley officer...

OAKLAND -- Two more members of a Black Muslim organization were jailed today in connection with the vandalism of two Oakland markets that sold alcohol, police said. The arrests of Dyahen Namer Williams, 19, of Berkeley and Demetrius Lamar Harvey, 19, bring to six the number of men affiliated with Your Black Muslim Bakery implicated in the Nov. 23 trashing of San Pablo Liquor and New York Market in West Oakland. Williams was being held this morning in lieu of $200,000 bail at Glenn Dyer Detention Facility in downtown Oakland. Harvey was being held in lieu of $200,000 bail at...

OAKLAND - The themes of black empowerment, self-sufficiency and straight-spined dignity run deep in the legacy of Yusuf Bey -- and the East Bay business and religious enterprise he called his family. The arrest this week of Bey's teenage son and a business associate provided another in a string of reminders that the late Bey's legacy cuts in another, more troubling direction. Oakland police say a surveillance videotape captured 19-year-old Yusuf Bey IV using a metal pipe to smash glass display cases inside a West Oakland liquor store on Nov. 23, acting in concert with 10 other men to trash...

Successor to the late Yusef Bey killed in an assassination-style shooting, police sayOAKLAND — A son of controversial Black Muslim leader Yusef Bey was shot and killed Tuesday night while pumping gas at a North Oakland station. Antar Bey, 24, was at the gas station at 55th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way just after 7:30 p.m. when he was shot as he waited to fill up his black BMW 745, police said. Police said Antar Bey, the appointed successor to the late Yusef Bey, had stepped away from the car and was talking on his cell phone when...

OAKLAND — A chain of white stretch limousines ferried many of Yusuf Bey's wives and 43 children to his memorial service in October. Against a backdrop of his fez-clad image, 16 sons in white suits and red bow ties performed a military-style drill in his honor. Nation of Islam ministers from Chicago and Florida paid their respects. ...But when the 68-year-old Bey died Sept. 30 of complications from cancer, another story was emerging. He was facing criminal charges and a civil lawsuit alleging that he had repeatedly raped underage girls at his compound — in some cases fathering their children,...

LOL, Richard Bey gets the axe. Michael Savage gets moved up to 7-9pm. Monica Crowley gets new 6-7 daily show. Malzberg gets 1Am to 5am slot.