The allegation came on the second day of a key evidentiary hearing for Phong Tran, 45, who is accused of numerous felonies.
An Oakland homicide detective promised a man strung out on drugs that he’d be “a little ATM for you” — all in exchange for the man falsely testifying at a 2013 murder trial, an investigator for the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office said in court Tuesday.
Prior to this week’s hearing, prosecutors’ allegations had focused on the 2011 killing of Charles Butler Jr., 23, who was gunned down while arguing with his killers about a parking spot near his North Oakland home. In one instance, Koltuniak said, Tran fed information to a woman whose best friend was killed in August 2012. During that instance, Tran “gave her information about the suspect and who to identify as a suspect, despite her previous statement that she did not see the shooter in that case,” Koltuniak testified.
The man allegedly told Koltuniak that he “would have said anything to get out of that interview room” with Tran, so that he could “get back onto the streets,” according to testimony Tuesday.
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