Alleged Oakland gambling den manager charged with leading police on high speed chase that ended with collision

OAKLAND A man who police say serves as a manager at one of the city s several illegal casinos has been charged with leading officers on a chase through town as they were studying his attainable involvement in a shooting related to the gambling underworld court records show An Dao was charged with felony counts of evading police and being a -time felon in possession of body armor court records show He is being held at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin with bail set at The jail log lists Dao s profession as a landscaper but officials say they ve identified him as the manager of a gambling shack on the block of East th Street which was raided on Sept Three days earlier a gambling den just two streets over was shot up allegedly by someone in a BMW that police believe belonged to Dao They identified him as a person of interest in the nonfatal shooting but he has not been charged according to court records Inside the East th illegal casino bureaucrats reported in court filings they located several bags of methamphetamine a loaded gun and ammunition as well as a wooden board listing the house rules signed by Waldo which is Dao s alleged nickname A day earlier police observed Dao at the residence with Tan Duong an Oakland resident in his late s who has been named as a suspect in numerous other illegal gambling investigations and been arrested in a similar raid last year according to court records The two felony charges against Dao stem from Sept when police attempted to pull him over on East th Street for allegedly driving a BMW with a missing front license plate The BMW took off at a high rate of speed from East th Street eventually colliding with another car at East th Street and th Avenue according to police Dao allegedly ran out of the car but was arrested two blocks away The BMW contained a stun gun and body armor according to police The criminal complaint alleges Dao has felony convictions including for six separate gun possession offenses and a prior police chase from in San Joaquin County In alone police in Oakland say they ve linked dozens of nonfatal shootings to an ongoing rivalry between rival groups that run illegal casinos in town They re generally converted residences that use arcade style machines as slot machines where cash prizes are given In one circumstance police raided a suspected illegal casino on wheels an RV equipped with converted slot machines a pay owe ledger and ammunition inside according to court records