Predawn Raids Target Troubled Oakland Bakery ('Your Black Muslim Bakery')

[The Straight Story]

Predawn Raids Target Troubled Oakland Bakery


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.

Bey was arrested without incident in his Oakland home and a search of the house turned up at least two guns in plain view in a bedroom. Everyone else in the home at the time was detained.

Oakland Deputy Police Chief Howard Jordan would not comment if the raids connection to Bailey's slaying.

"These raids were (launched) to seek evidence in several violent felonies including murder, robbery and kidnapping," Jordan said.

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