Your Black Muslim Bakery arrests keep coming

A fifth suspect with ties to Oakland’s Your Black Muslim Bakery was arrested today in connection with the May 17 kidnapping and torture of two women.

Richard Lewis, 23, was taken into custody on a probable-cause arrest warrant when he appeared for Wednesday morning in Alameda County Superior Court on an unrelated misdemeanor case involving possession of a bogus driver’s license or other government ID.

Police say other defendants’ statements implicated Lewis as having had a role in the May 17 incident, and his DNA can’t be ruled out as being present on a knife used in torturing one of the victims. Lewis had not yet been charged by midday Wednesday.

Yusuf Bey IV, 21, the self-proclaimed leader of the bakery organization, and two other bakery members – Joshua Bey, 20, and Tamon Halfin, 21 – were all arrested Aug. 3 after hundreds of police raided the bakery in the 5800 block of San Pablo Avenue and residences associated with bakery members. They were charged with crimes including kidnapping, kidnapping for extortion, kidnapping in commission of a carjacking, torture and false imprisonment.

Yusuf Bey V, 20, was arrested and charged with similar crimes last week; police said the first three defendants had implicated him, but they waited for DNA test results before taking him into custody.

Court documents say a mother and daughter were pulled over on Interstate 580 by what they believed was a police car, but were seized at gunpoint by masked men and taken to an Avenal Avenue house associated with the bakery. There, some of the men took the handcuffed daughter inside while another suspect guarded the mother in the car.

A police narrative filed last week said, “Once in the house, Joshua Bey saw V1 (victim 1) was in the house with Bey IV, Bey V and Richard Lewis.”

The daughter was tortured by the suspects who wanted her to either give them money or call someone they could get money from, police said. Authorities said they believe the knife and other objects were used in the torturing.

The women were freed when a police officer saw the modified car and thought other officers were investigating a crime. When he went to investigate, the suspects fled and he could hear the daughter’s screams from inside the house.

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