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.…

  Oakland Police Department Unable to Confirm Identities of Assailants  June 5, 2023  Nine juveniles detained on May 21, 2023 in connection with a robbery incident have not been charged but the cases are still under investigation. Oakland Police Department acknowledged to the Juvenile Division Charging Deputy that there was not sufficient evidence to identify the suspects to charge any of the juveniles.  Two women were injured during this incident but did not sustain “great bodily harm.” One juvenile possessed stolen property. Two others were detained for unrelated reasons. The case was reviewed by the Juvenile Division.  At this time, no allegations exist that firearms were displayed or used during the incident.  In a separate incident on May 16, 2023, two adults and three juveniles were detained in connection with a robbery. The two minors allegedly involved in these armed robberies were not presented for…

  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…

The Alameda County District Attorney’s office will file an amended complaint  on Wednesday, June 7, 2023 that could allow James Joseph Vega, of Castro Valley, to serve a maximum sentence of four years and eight months for the accidental fatal shooting of Vega’s 28-year-old friend Jarin Purvis. Vega has already spent nearly 2 ½ years in custody in the Santa Rita Jail, without bail.  In November 2020, Vega was charged with murder with a special circumstance enhancement, which exposed him to a sentence of 50 years to life.  Based on the factual analysis of evidence in this case, the Alameda County District Attorney’s office will file to amend the charges in the fatal shooting. Vega will, now, face involuntary manslaughter, because of the amended complaint, along with a carrying a concealed and loaded firearm charge. Prosecutors met with Purvis’s family to explain the new charges.  …