{"id":420029,"date":"2026-07-31T22:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T22:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/420029\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T22:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T22:06:09","slug":"man-convicted-in-oakland-chinatown-assaults-accused-of-new-attacks-against-elderly-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/420029\/","title":{"rendered":"Man convicted in Oakland Chinatown assaults accused of new attacks against elderly women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man who was convicted in a series of attacks targeting elderly victims in Oakland&#8217;s Chinatown during the COVID-19 pandemic has been charged in connection with a series of new attacks, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>The Alameda County District Attorney&#8217;s Office confirmed to CBS News Bay Area on Friday that charges were filed against 33-year-old Yahya Muslim. According to prosecutors, Muslim is accused of attacking two elderly women near Broadway and West Grand Avenue in Oakland on July 26.<\/p>\n<p>Muslim is facing four felony counts, including two counts of assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury and two counts of elder abuse. <\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/yahya-muslim.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"yahya-muslim.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Yahya Muslim (Alameda County Sheriff&#8217;s Office)<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Muslim was charged with assault, battery and elder abuse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sanfrancisco\/news\/update-suspect-arrested-in-oakland-chinatown-elderly-assaults\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in connection with three attacks in Oakland&#8217;s Chinatown<\/a>, including the assault of a 91-year-old man that was caught on video. The incidents occurred amid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sanfrancisco\/news\/asian-american-attacks-9000-since-covid-19-pandemic-began\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a spike in harassment and hate crimes targeting Asians during the pandemic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said at the time that he had two prior felony assault convictions. Muslim was convicted and sentenced to six years in prison in the case.<\/p>\n<p>According to jail records, Muslim is being held at the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin without bail. Prosecutors said his next court appearances are a pretrial hearing on Aug. 7 and a preliminary hearing on Aug. 13.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who was convicted in a series of attacks targeting elderly victims in Oakland&#8217;s Chinatown during the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[12629,27057,2598,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-420029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-asian","tag-asian-american-attacks","tag-assault","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}