June 21, 2023  Oakland -- A three-day preliminary hearing concluded Wednesday with Judge Clifford Blakely’s decision that there is enough evidence to try Phong Tran, an Oakland Police Department homicide detective, on a string of charges, including bribery and perjury.  Tran, a veteran officer, was arrested and charged with two felony counts of perjury under oath, as well as felony subornation of perjury under oath, one count of felony bribery of a witness and attempted bribery of a witness.   The original charges are connected to the murder investigation of Charles Butler, who was shot and killed in 2011, but prosecutors introduced evidence of a pattern of bribery and coercion spanning a decade. Judge Blakely admitted evidence from other investigations that established Tran’s pattern of behavior. Prosecutors detailed strikingly similar allegations, including fraudulent identification of suspects in exchange for cash payments and eliciting false testimony leveraging…

District Attorney Pamela Price joins the Prosecutor’s Alliance of California, Moms Demand Action, Everytown for Gun Violence, Giffords Law Center, Brady Campaign and other gun reform advocacy groups in Sacramento OAKLAND, CA – On Tuesday, June 27, 2023, Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price joined the Prosecutors’ Alliance of California and gun reform organizations to speak in support of key gun reforms before the California Senate Public Safety Committee. District Attorney Pamela Price urged the Committee to support Assembly Bills 732 and 733 (Fong), among other common-sense gun reforms. AB 732 helps take guns out of the hands of criminals by reducing the amount of time an out-of-custody defendant has to relinquish a firearm following a conviction, and requires the Department of Justice to provide local law enforcement agencies a monthly report identifying persons who have not relinquished firearms. AB 733 stops the sale of…

Members of the District Attorney’s Office supported O’Malley’s re-election campaign during work hours, soliciting donations and using office equipment. The Alameda County Civil Grand Jury investigation revealed a pattern of violations of County policies regarding election-related activities during former District Attorney Nancy O’Malley’s 2018 re-election campaign. The list of violations includes requests from Alameda County District Attorney’s Office staff for donations to support O’Malley’s campaign, attendance at campaign events, distribution of campaign flyers, and participation in photographs that staff believed were taken for use to support O’Malley’s candidacy. The current District Attorney, Pamela Price, and the entire DA’s office were recused from the investigation. After interviews with more than 30 witnesses and a review of hundreds of pages of documents, the Grand Jury concluded that about 25 DA staffers used county-owned computers and the county-owned-and-operated email system to solicit funds for then District Attorney O’Malley.…