Vaughn Boatner’s Case Is A Prime Example Of When Enhancements Should Be Applied District Attorney Pamela Price has authorized a gun enhancement for Vaughn Boatner, a 33-year-old man accused of murdering his pregnant ex-girlfriend in her Hayward home on May 11, 2023. DA Price also has authorized his extradition from Washington state to California to face those charges, in addition to attempted murder charges and child abuse. Mr. Boatner, of San Mateo, is accused of fatally shooting 30-year-old Monique Aldridge seven times in the head and also shooting her new boyfriend Jacques Jackson Fields once in the head and in the arm. The incident unfolded in front of the five-year-old son both Aldridge and Boatner shared. Mr. Jackson Field survived and managed to protect the young boy. U.S. Marshals captured Vaughn Boatner on May 22 in Seattle. He will be brought back to Alameda…

Delonzo Logwood Still Faces One Count Of Murder On Wednesday, May 31, 2023, the District Attorney’s office moved to dismiss two murder charges against Delonzo Logwood which were filed against him in 2015. Judge Mark McCannon considered and granted the District Attorney’s motion in the interests of justice. Mr. Logwood remains in custody charged with one count of murder of Eric Ford. Mr. Logwood had been charged in 2015 with the murders of Richard Carter, Eric Ford, and Zaire Washington. The evidence against him in the cases involving the murders of Richard Carter and Zaire Washington came exclusively from a cooperating witness, who had nearly 12 years slashed from his 31-year sentence, in exchange for his testimony against Logwood at the preliminary hearing in 2018. That witness completed his sentence and was released from prison in February 2023. The witness now refuses to cooperate and…

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…

Antonio Lamont Powell Charged with Murder OAKLAND, CA —Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Y. Price announces two counts of murder were filed today against Antonio Lamont Powell, alleging he killed his girlfriend while her one-year old baby was in bed with her, then shot and killed her 13-year old daughter. Powell is also charged with felony assault for shooting another child who was visiting the home at the time of the murders. Powell is also charged with 4 separate counts of felony child abuse because other minor children witnessed the shootings.  Along with the charges, Powell also faces enhancements for using a firearm and also for causing great bodily injury. Powell currently faces 110 years-to-life in prison if convicted of all the charges in the complaint. “This case is a horrific example of gun violence that has no place in our community,” said DA Price.  “These murders…