Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price Joins the Alameda City Attorney in Civil Enforcement Action Against the Owners/ Operators of Barnhill Marina & Boatyard for Alleged Violations of Tenant Protection Laws and California’s Unfair Competition Law   April 30, 2024 Oakland, CA— Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price joined Alameda City Attorney Yibin Shen in a civil enforcement action earlier this month against the owners and operators of Barnhill Marina & Boatyard (“Barnhill”). The defendants are Valley Investments-Redwood, LLC (Valley), which purchased Barnhill in 2021, and its manager, Amarpal Narang  (“defendants”). Given the egregiousness of the violations alleged, this is the first major tenant protection action joined by the District Attorney’s Consumer Justice Bureau and the first time District Attorney Price has agreed to share her authority to enforce California’s Unfair Competition Law with a City Attorney’s office. The Barnhill Marina, located on Alameda Island, has 56…

Berkeley Man Convicted of Kidnapping, Rape, Burglary, and Assault   April 29, 2024 OAKLAND, CA — Today, Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price announced a jury rendered guilty verdicts against Keith Kenard Asberry Jr. for a 2008 kidnapping and sexual assault and a 2015 first-degree burglary and assault. Both crimes happened in the City of Berkeley. In the 2008 incident, Mr. Asberry approached a teenager on Allston Way, near Berkeley High School, as she was getting into her car. The evidence showed that Mr. Asberry used a gun to force the victim to drive to a dead-end street in West Berkeley, where the sexual assault occurred. The evidence also shows that Mr. Asberry forced the victim to use her ATM card to withdraw $200 from her bank account. In the 2015 incident, Mr. Asberry walked into the home of the victim, who had just finished…

Benicia Knapps Plead No Contest to Second Degree Murder Charge and A 19 Years to Life Sentence for the Murder of Blake Mohs Members of Moh’s Family Approve Plea Deal and Were Present in Court During Negotiation with the Defense and When The Plea was Entered April 23, 2024 Oakland, CA—Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price announces that the prosecution and defense reached a plea agreement in the case of People v. Benicia Knapps and David Guillory for the death of Blake Mohs. The plea deal covers both defendants and a gun enhancement charge against Ms. Knapps. Defendant Benicia Knapps plead no contest to a Second Degree Murder Charge and a Gun Enhancement, and a negotiated sentence of 19-years-to-life in state prison. Her co-Defendant David Guillory pled no contest to Child Abuse, Accessory to a Robbery and Evading an Officer. He will receive 7 years…

Alameda County Death Penalty Cases Are Reviewed After Prosecutors Discover Evidence of Prosecutorial Misconduct Excluding Jewish and Black Residents from Jury Service in Death Penalty Cases U.S. Federal Judge Directs Alameda County District Attorney’s Office to Review all Death Penalty Cases  April 22, 2024 San Francisco, CA— U.S. Federal District Court Judge Vince Chhabria directs the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office to review all death penalty cases after evidence of what appears to be the exclusion of Jewish and Black jurors was found during the resentencing settlement of Mr. Ernest Dykes. Ernest Dykes was convicted and sentenced in 1995 for the attempted murder of Bernice Clark and the murder of her 9-year-old grandson Lance Clark during an attempted robbery in 1993. Judge Chhabria is presiding over the Dykes case, which was assigned to him in 2023. While reviewing the Dykes’ case file, a Deputy District…

Three City of Alameda Police Officers Charged by the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office’s Public Accountability Unit for the In-Custody Death of Mario Gonzalez  April 18, 2024 Oakland, CA— Today, the conclusion of an extensive review of the in-custody death of Mario Gonzalez by prosecutors with the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office’s (ACDAO) Public Accountability Unit ends with involuntary manslaughter charges filed against three City of Alameda Police Officers; Eric McKinley, James Fisher and Cameron Leahy. On April 19, 2021, the three Alameda police officers responded to a call involving a man behaving oddly in a public park on the 800 block of Oak Street. Subsequently, the officers learned that Mr. Gonzalez was a suspect in a shoplifting incident and attempted to detain him. He later died at that scene. An initial autopsy attributed Mr. Gonzalez’s death to “Toxic effects of methamphetamine” and as “other…