They Are Among the First Employees Charged By The New Alameda County Unit  Oakland CA – Three County employees are facing felony criminal charges in three separate cases, ranging from falsification of records to performing sex acts on a minor under 16 years old. The law enforcement officers have been charged by the Alameda County Public Accountability Unit, created by District Attorney Pamela Price in January 2023.   Nicole Perales, 50, has spent more than two decades as a Juvenile Institutional Officer in the Alameda County Probation Department since 2001. She is accused of unlawfully participating in an act of oral copulation with a minor under the age of 16, whom she met when he was in custody at the Alameda Juvenile Justice Center and while he was under her supervision and care in violation Penal Code Section 287(b)(2). The conduct allegedly took place from August…

                                    Defendant Bernard Jimmerson also charged with use of a firearm OAKLAND, CA —Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Y. Price announces that the District Attorney’s Office has filed murder charges against an Oakland man who fired his assault rifle into the street, killing 21-year-old Marie Villa Bedford, who was just driving by. On Saturday, April 29, 2023 at approximately 2:20 a.m., OPD responded to the area of the 9000 block of MacArthur Boulevard in Oakland based on three separate ShotSpotter activations. There, they found Ms. Bedford suffering from a gunshot wound to her head. “My condolences go out to Ms. Bedford’s family and we offer our heartfelt sympathy. Her murder is heartbreaking and absolutely unacceptable,” said DA Price. The defendant, Bernard Tracy Jimmerson, an Oakland resident and the father of two young children, told police he was frustrated by the noise of cars…