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  • Bakery leader thought robbing drug dealer would net $500,000 to save bankrupt business

    03/22/2010 8:38:41 PM PDT · by SmithL · 27 replies · 843+ views
    Oakland Tribune ^ | 3/22/10 | Thomas Peele - The Chauncey Bailey Project
    OAKLAND — As Your Black Muslim Bakery teetered on financial collapse in the spring of 2007, Yusuf Bey IV bragged that robbing an East Oakland drug dealer known for wearing white suits and driving a Mercedes-Benz would net the business a $500,000 windfall, his half-brother, Yusuf Bey V, testified Monday. When Bey IV led four of his followers out on the night of May 17, 2007, Bey V said he believed they were going to find that dealer, Tim Crawford, and take his money. The bakery was more than $1 million in debt at the time and had filed for...