SF News New Book Tells Crazy Story Of Your Black Muslim Bakery, Murder Of Chauncey Bailey A new book by Oakland writer Thomas Peele called Killing the Messenger just recently hit shelves. The subtitle, "A story of radical faith, racism's backlash, and the assassination of a journalist," sums up
SF News Your Black Muslim Bakery Leader Receives Life Sentence Four years after Yusuf Bey IV ordered the murder of reporter Chauncey Bailey, there's finally some closure to the case: Bey, who was convicted on three counts of first-degree murder back in June,
SF News Your Black Muslim Bakery Owner Convicted on Three Counts of Murder After nearly two weeks of jury deliberations, an Alameda Superior Court jury ruled Yusuf Bey IV guilty on three counts of murder for ordering the killings of Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey, Michael
SF News Defense Begins in Your Black Muslim Bakery Trial The triple-murder trial of Yusuf Bey IV and Antoine Mackey is nearing its end in Oakland, as the defense begins putting witnesses on the stand today. Defense attorney Gene Peretti, who's serving as
SF News An Update on the Your Black Muslim Bakery Murder Trial, Still Underway in Oakland The confessed killer of Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey took the stand today in the trial of Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV and his associate Antoine Mackey. The two defendants are
SF News The Chauncey Bailey Murder Trial Will Not Move Out of Oakland An Alameda County judge has denied a request by accused murderers Yusuf Bey IV and Antoine Mackey to move the trial out of the County, as the Oakland Tribune is now reporting. Bey
SF News A New Name in the Your Black Muslim Bakery Case: Gary Popoff New recordings have come to light of conversations between Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV, from the Santa Rita jail where he's being held, and his "Number One Soldier" Gary Popoff
SF News McLaren Park Body Tied to Your Black Muslim Bakery Lunatics The big tabloid-crime news story of the day is the connection being made between a body found last week in a McLaren Park homeless encampment (which was apparently once attached to this severed
SF News Chauncey Bailey Wins Posthumous Polk Award Chauncey Bailey, former editor of the Oakland Post who was murdered last August while investigating Your Black Muslim Bakery and the Muslim splinter group's shady dealings, received the prestigious George Polk Award last
SF News SFist Blotter [sorry we're late today!] Close call! A truck driver careened off the San Mateo Bridge yesterday afternoon, but managed to miss both the bay and a shed full of explosive material right by
SF News SFist Blotter Your Black Muslim Bakery update: the business is being liquidated in an involuntary bankruptcy proceeding (they have almost $1 million in debt) after a number of unnamed potential buyers dropped out, and the
SF News Chauncey Bailey's Source The Chronicle reports that Yusuf Bey's son-in-law, Saleem Bey, 43, who worked at Your Black Muslim Bakery for ten years, was the main source for journalist Chauncey Bailey's unpublished stories about the bakery.
SF News SFist Blotter Okay, we're kind of scared to say anything about the Your Black Muslim Bakery now, so let's just leave it at the handyman confessed, Chauncey Bailey's source has come out, and the bakery
SF News Day Around The Bay - The Alcatraz Challenge Aquathlon's motto "Swim or Die" proves literal after a competitor dies during race. [Chron, Examiner] -- Police get Devandre (or Devaughndre) Broussard -- 19-year-old handyman and a UC youth
SF News UPDATE: Your Black Muslim Bakery Police Raid Just as previously thought, Oakland Tribune reports that the evidence (i.e., a shotgun) found during this morning's raid at Your Black Muslim Bakery is most likely linked to yesterday's gang-style killing of
SF News Your Black Muslim Bakery Raided As already mentioned in Blotter's comments and in our tips section, Your Black Muslim Bakery on San Pablo Avenue (hot fish sandwiches -- mmm) was raided this morning, resulting in the arrests of
SF News Day Around The Bay -- Jackson West interviews Matt Stroud, SF Weekly's former web editor, just before he leaves SF. [Future Fresser] -- Oakland Post's editor, Chauncey Bailey, shot and killed in downtown Oakland. [Chron, Examiner, Oakland
SF News Gang-Style Killing Of An Oakland Journalist Chauncey Bailey, a local journalist with the Oakland Post [no online site] and who had previously worked at the Oakland Tribune, was shot to death at around 7:30 a.m. this morning
