{"id":148547,"date":"2026-01-25T03:58:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T03:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/148547\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T03:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T03:58:06","slug":"woman-gets-22-year-sentence-for-fatally-stabbing-a-man-in-a-santa-ana-homeless-camp-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/148547\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman gets 22-year sentence for fatally stabbing a man in a Santa Ana homeless camp \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA ANA \u2014 A 41-year-old woman pleaded guilty Friday and was sentenced to 22 years in prison for fatally stabbing a man in a homeless encampment in Santa Ana.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2022\/02\/10\/woman-arrested-on-suspicion-of-stabbing-man-to-death-in-santa-ana\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tanya Ceja<\/a> pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter with a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a deadly weapon. As part of the negotiated plea deal with prosecutors, a murder charge was dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>Ceja was given credit for 1,661 days behind bars awaiting trial. Ceja fatally stabbed 31-year-old Jaime Santos on Feb. 9, 2022, along railroad tracks in the 2200 block of South Beeson Lane.<\/p>\n<p>According to police testimony at Ceja\u2019s preliminary hearing, Ceja and Santos were involved in a shoving match before she plunged a knife into his chest. Santos had grabbed her from behind but she managed to get loose before stabbing him, police testified.<\/p>\n<p>A friend, Jose Acosta, testified he witnessed the conflict and said Santos had a reputation for touching women in the encampment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANTA ANA \u2014 A 41-year-old woman pleaded guilty Friday and was sentenced to 22 years in prison for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,7,138,969,134,100,611,338,1878,136],"class_list":["post-148547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-california","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-homeless","tag-homicide","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-santa-ana","tag-stabbing","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148547","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=148547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}