{"id":200185,"date":"2026-03-02T06:11:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T06:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/200185\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T06:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T06:11:06","slug":"man-gets-16-year-sentence-for-fatally-beating-his-roommate-in-santa-ana-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/200185\/","title":{"rendered":"Man gets 16-year sentence for fatally beating his roommate in Santa Ana \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA ANA \u2014 A 33-year-old man pleaded guilty Friday and was immediately sentenced to 16 years in prison for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2021\/12\/14\/santa-ana-man-charged-with-fatally-beating-roommate\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">beating his roommate to death<\/a> with a metal pole in Santa Ana.<\/p>\n<p>Ricardo Antunez Villalba pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and assault with a deadly weapon, both felonies, and admitted sentencing enhancements for the personal use of a deadly weapon and inflicting great bodily injury on the victim. Orange County Superior Court Judge Michael Cassidy gave Villalba credit for 1,771 days behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>Villalba killed 21-year-old Erik Quebrado of Santa Ana Dec. 11, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The two had been drinking when they got into a dispute around 2:50 a.m. in their residence in the 800 block of South Townsend Street, police said.<\/p>\n<p>As part of a plea deal, a murder charge was dismissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANTA ANA \u2014 A 33-year-old man pleaded guilty Friday and was immediately sentenced to 16 years in prison&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,46141,7,138,134,100,611,338,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-200185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news","11":"tag-assault-and-battery","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","14":"tag-homicide","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-orange-county","17":"tag-santa-ana","18":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200185","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=200185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200185\/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=200185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}