The bakery didn’t get a chance to bake a cake for a gay wedding.
A member of the defunct Your Black Muslim Bakery whose conviction and life prison sentence stemming from the 2007 kidnapping and torture of a woman was overturned by an appeals court in January pleaded guilty to three of 13 original charges on Tuesday.
Richard Lewis, 30, is to be sentenced in December to 20 years on one count of kidnapping and two counts of carjacking. He must serve at least 17 of them before being eligible for release and will have three strikes on his record, a spokeswoman for the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office wrote in a statement.
Lewis, a former highly regarded San Francisco high school football star, had rejected a plea deal in the case in 2009 and a jury convicted him in 2010 of charges that he took part in the roadside kidnapping of a woman and her elderly mother in the spring of 2007.
After stopping the women on Interstate 580 with a retired police cruiser, they were hustled off to an abandoned East Oakland house where the younger woman, a bag over her head, was beaten with fists, pistol whipped and cut with a knife, according to trial testimony.
It was part of a scheme by then-bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV to learn where a drug dealer hid money. But it was later learned that a rival dealer had set the woman up and she bore no such knowledge. She was rescued when a police officer happened upon the scene, heard her screams and charged into the house as her attackers fled.