Article: Phone calls between Bey IV, detective being reviewed

OAKLAND -- Police are investigating Sgt. Derwin Longmire's phone calls with jailed former Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV as well as separate allegations that Bey IV provided women to Longmire for sexual favors, a police spokesman said Friday.

Longmire spoke with Bey IV at least twice last year in a three- way conversation with Bey IV's common-law wife, who had received calls from Bey IV at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin.

Bey IV was being held there on charges unrelated to the 2007 killing of journalist Chauncey Bailey.

In one late night call in June 2008, Longmire told Bey IV they had always "gotten along like brothers should," even as Longmire investigated Bailey's killing and ...

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