The State - News from June 29, 1988

Former Black Panther Party leader Eldridge Cleaver was placed on three years’ probation for burglarizing a house under renovation. Cleaver was also given a 180-day suspended jail sentence and ordered to do 200 hours of volunteer work by Oakland Municipal Judge Horace Wheatley. The judge directed Cleaver to make restitution for taking a desk and table from the house in Oakland on Feb. 11. Cleaver pleaded no contest to misdemeanor second-degree burglary.