Two men are gunned down on the Oakland-Emeryville border, four days apart, in which the same gun is used. Odell Roberson Jr. was shot on July 8 on 60th Street, and Michael J. Wills Jr. was shot in the predawn hours of July 12. The same gun, police said, was used in an earlier incident involving the car of a [...]

The preliminary hearing of a kidnap-torture case in which Your Black Muslim Bakery CEO Yusuf Bey IV and others were charged opened on May 23, 2008. Testimony from the lead investigator revealed that Bey IV was secretly taped last summer telling associates they may have to “sacrifice another good soldier” to stop a police officer from testifying against him and [...]

Brothers Billy and Joseph Stephens become followers of Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam movement. They start Muhammad’s Mosque in Santa Barbara and later open Your Bakery. Their father was a baker.

The Stephens brothers, sent by Elijah Muhammad, move to Oakland to set up Mosque 26B across the bay from San Francisco’s Mosque 26, and open Shabazz Bakery on East 14th Street, now defunct. They are given the names and titles, Minister Billy X and Captain Joseph X.

Police say new bakery CEO Yusuf Bey IV and his associates are caught on security cameras inside two Oakland liquor stores, smashing bottles and overturning displays. A judge rules in January 2008 that he and three co-defendants must stand for trial on vandalism and hate crime charges. It is one of nine crimes, from minor to violent, in which [...]

Alameda County District Attorney charges bakery founder Yusuf Ali Bey with one felony count of lewd conduct with a minor, based on a DNA results revealing that Bey was 99.99 percent likely to be the father of a child conceived by Jane Doe 1 when she was 13. Bey surrenders the following day and posts [...]

Services, a home health organization. The city council approved the funds. (Oakland Tribune)E.M. Health Services, headed by bakery top lieutenant Nedir Bey, opens its doors on Grand Avenue July 10, 1996, in Oakland. The city loans it $1.1 million to start home health aide training and services, despite a 1994 case in which Bey pleaded no [...]

With bakery properties heavily mortgaged, Yusuf Bey IV seeks protection for the bakery from creditors and files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Oct. 24, 2006. Loans on properties often have gone to making bail. He fails to make any tax payments or timely filings. Eight months earlier, in February 2006, he transferred two bakery properties [...]

Antar Bey shot to death in an apparent carjacking for the expensive rims of his BMW. Alfonza Phillips is later convicted of the murder. Yusuf Bey IV, Antar’s younger brother, takes his place as CEO.