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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...

Why did the Oakland police do so little about Your Black Muslim Bakery's thuggery? Here is the situation regarding the enterprise known as Your Black Muslim Bakery, located on San Pablo Avenue in Oakland, Calif. Its founder, a man named Yusuf Bey, was arrested in 2002 and charged with forcing an underage girl to have sex. Subsequent investigation suggested that he had a long history of rape and abuse of his followers and had by this means fathered numerous children out of wedlock. Bey died in September 2003 before his case could come to trial. His son Yusuf Bey IV...

OAKLAND -- Heavily armed police officers using flash grenades stormed the Your Black Muslim Bakery early Friday, detaining as many as 19 people -- including the organization's leader Yusuf Bey IV -- and seizing a small armory of weapons including shotguns and ammunition for assault weapons. It was not immediately known if the raids -- at the bakery and three other Oakland homes -- were related to the sidewalk assassination of Oakland reporter Chauncey Bailey. Sources say he was doing an investigative piece on the troubled splinter group not associated with the Black Muslims. Oakland Deputy Police Chief Howard Jordan...

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, Calif. — Dressed in bow ties and dark suits, nearly a dozen men carrying metal pipes entered a corner store, shattered refrigerator cases and smashed bottles of liquor, wine and beer, terrifying the clerk but stealing nothing. The just wanted to leave a message: Stop selling alcohol to fellow Muslims. In urban America, friction between poor residents and immigrant storeowners is nothing new. Nor are complaints that inner-city neighborhoods are glutted with markets that sell alcohol and contribute to violent crime, vagrancy and other social ills. But the recent attack at San Pablo Liquor — and an identical vandalism...

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...

Article Last Updated: 12/17/2005 04:49 AM Black Muslims frighten Oakland market's clerk Men don't vandalize store but tell owner's son to stop selling alcohol By William Brand, STAFF WRITER Inside Bay Area OAKLAND — The son of the owner of a West Oakland market said Friday that a group of neatly dressed men, who left a card identifying themselves as members of the Your Black Muslim Bakery, crowded into the store two nights ago and demanded to know what kind of Muslim he was. There was no violence, and the men made no threats, but the son, Abellh Ali,...

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...

An Oakland bakery with a cheery red sign out front -- "Your Black Muslim Bakery" -- was thrust into the criminal spotlight again Tuesday when police arrested one of founder Yusuf Bey's sons in connection with vandalism to two liquor stores. Bey created the bakery in 1968 and built a powerful enterprise based on baked goods, Muslim faith, local politics and, police say, strong-arm tactics. For decades, members of Bey's religious sect have been suspected of using violence and intimidation to secure their business interests, which include four bakeries, a Muslim school, a security business and an apartment building across...