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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,...

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