Special Investigations 
Popoff, Bey IV’s ‘No. 1 soldier,’ expressed his loyalty(2)
“I am your No. 1 soldier,” ex-con Gary Popoff professed in a January 2009 telephone conversation with his spiritual mentor, Yusuf Bey IV, who was in the Santa Rita Jail facing charges of kidnapping and torture. “There is nothing I won’t do for you,” he said. “You are an innocent man, and Allah is about to intervene on your behalf.”
Sources: Witnesses in Bey IV case were marked for death
Yusuf Bey IV ordered one of his bodyguards at the former Your Black Muslim Bakery to kill two witnesses in his upcoming triple murder trial, a plot that investigators unraveled before anyone was attacked, according to documents and officials. Bey IV — being held in Santa Rita Jail in Dublin — tasked Gary Popoff, 42, with “eliminating witnesses,” an official with knowledge of the matter said Wednesday.
Three trials of Your Black Muslim Bakery followers set for early 2010
Three trials involving allegations of violent crimes by former members of Your Black Muslim Bakery – including triple murder charges against its leader, Yusuf Bey IV – are scheduled to begin in early 2010. Bey IV and co-defendant Antoine A. Mackey will face three counts of murder each in a trial that will begin May 17. One of Bey IV’s former followers, Richard Lewis, will face kidnapping and torture charges in early January, in a case unrelated to the murders, and several former bakery members will face assault and torture charges in a separate case, a jury for which is expected to be chosen the week after New Years.
Longmire: I was the best man to investigate Chauncey Bailey slaying
Sgt. Derwin Longmire’s defense of his work on the Chauncey Bailey homicide investigation is perhaps best captured in one short sentence: “I was the best man for the case, and I knew it.” That is what Longmire told state investigators who asked if his relationship with Yusuf Bey IV posed a conflict of interest for him in investigating Bailey’s 2007 killing, according to a document prepared by Longmire’s lawyer.
More in this category:
- Lawyer: DA not interested in wider probe in journalist Bailey’s slaying
- Former bakery associate awarded BART contract
- Suspended Oakland investigator had more conversations with Bey IV than previously thought
- Bey IV tried to strong-arm follower, recordings reveal
- Chauncey Bailey’s family still in pain two years after slaying
- The Oakland Post pushes forward despite loss of its prolific editor
- The Chauncey Bailey slaying: Key players
- From Texas to Oakland, the elder Bey’s path to the bakery
- Yusuf Bey built business empire with questionable tactics
- Welfare money-maker for senior Bey
- Bey’s security firms important financial arm of his businesses
- Yusuf Bey IV grew up in prominent yet troubled bakery
- Bailey suspects, associates left behind $6 million trail of bad loans
- Security business at Marriott earns praise
- Two years later: The Chauncey Bailey slaying
- Former bakery leader accused of saying ‘white people are devils’ after killing
- Law catching up with Your Black Muslim Bakery
- Former bakery associates run afoul of the law
- Putting Longmire on Bailey case was a mistake, Jordan admits
- Michael J. Wills Jr.
- Grand jury votes to indict bakery leader in slaying of Oakland journalist
- Yusuf Bey IV discusses religious beliefs in jail calls
- Getaway driver in Bailey slaying has long criminal history
- Path to indictment
- Broussard’s statement may help police clear two more killings
- Suspect says Chauncey Bailey marked for death
- Additional murder charges imminent in journalist Chauncey Bailey’s killing
- Lead detective on Chauncey Bailey killing may be fired
- Record shows Bey IV not truthful about Bailey killing
- Jailhouse calls between Bey IV, detective revealed
- Investigators: Bakery leader bragged about ordering killing of Oakland journalist
- Documents say Oakland police beat suspect who died
- FBI investigating Oakland Police Department
- Dissent on the rise within Oakland Police Department
- Rank-and-file begin to question Bailey probe
- Understaffed Oakland department behind other cities in solving homicides
- Oakland homicide clearance numbers vary
- OPD homicide detectives focus on interrogation, sometimes at expense of other investigation
- Law enforcement reports and statistics are available on the Internet
- Charts: Homicides in California’s largest cities; Oakland homicide detectives’ case loads, wages, overtime
- Dellums calls for expanded probe of police handling Bailey case
- Delayed raid likely cost Chauncey Bailey his life
- Bakery leader embracing guns in bakery’s criminal acts long before editor’s killing
- Bailey Project stands behind its report on police investigation
- Dellums requests state to investigate police handling of Bailey killing
- Dellums to ask state attorney general to investigate handling of Bailey killing
- Dellums to call for outside investigation into journalist’s killing
- Investigator interfered in police probes of former bakery CEO
- Experts Criticize Investigation
- Conspiracy Missed?
- Evidence Ignored
- The Night Before the Murder
- Bey IV run-ins with the law
- Evidence Ignored: A Timeline
- Editor’s Note
- Chauncey Bailey Project questions veracity of police investigation
- Bailey killing figure had troubled youth
- Highlights gathered from documents, recordings
- Key players
- Secret video raises questions about bakery leader’s role in Bailey killing
- Van owner: I gave the keys to Bey IV
- KGO: Jailhouse video sheds light on Bailey murder
- KTVU: Taped Jailhouse Conversation Raises Questions
- Documents and recordings
- Additional cases
- Unsolved 1986 slaying of baker linked to founder of Your Black Muslim Bakery
- Yusuf Bey molestation/murder?
- Police reopen 1968 Santa Barbara mosque slaying investigation
- Profiles of abuse
- A chronology of abuse
- Women, Part II: Testimony reveals a life of abuse, toil for women of Your Black Muslim Bakery
- Fear kept Yusuf Bey abuse victims from seeking any help
- Reports to authorities of abuse
- Women, Part I: One police officer cracked abuse case against Yusuf Bey
- Nedir Bey evades trouble over election finances
- E.M. Health, Part III: Political, racial pressure pays off for bakery
- E.M. Health, Part II: E.M. Health attempts to borrow away debt
- E.M. Health, Part 1: How Oakland’s $1 million loan vanished into bakery’s sham firm
- Who’s who of key players in E.M. Health
- Timeline of E.M. Health’s loan
- Were Oakland police afraid of Black Muslim bakery?
- Web resources
- Oakland police stop short of taping full interviews
- Several Muslim bakery members linked to crimes
- A journalist’s last day
- Police take another look at 1982 slaying linked to bakery
- Suspected driver in journalist’s slaying still free
- Muslim bakery family linked to real estate broker accused of fraud
- Bey matriarch accused of duping creditors
- Bey family property transactions
- Bey mother involved in sale of Your Black Muslim Bakery
- Bey IV’s rap sheet spans range of criminal charges
- Bey IV claims rivals set him up
- Did cops drag their feet on bakery probe?
- Big questions linger in Bailey’s slaying
- Confession in Bailey’s killing prompts questions
- Slain editor’s bakery source surfaces
Slideshow: Michael J. Wills Jr.
A Day Late in Oakland
Evidence Ignored: A Timeline
Chauncey Bailey
Timeline
The People
Chauncey Bailey: life and work
Bailey killing figure had troubled youth
Secret video raises questions about bakery leader’s role in Bailey killing
Unsolved 1986 slaying of baker linked to founder of Your Black Muslim Bakery
Women, Part II: Testimony reveals a life of abuse, toil for women of Your Black Muslim Bakery
Women, Part I: One police officer cracked abuse case against Yusuf Bey
Nedir Bey evades trouble over election finances
