A convicted gang member was sentenced Friday to 11 years in prison, or time already served awaiting trial, for his part in the gang-related shooting of 20-year-old man near the entrance of an Anaheim hotel 5 1\/2 years ago.<\/p>\n
Danny Rey Quintana, 29, pleaded guilty Jan. 22 to participating in gang activity and assault with a deadly weapon with a sentencing enhancement for gang activity. As part of the plea deal, a count of murder with a special-circumstances allegation of gang activity was dismissed.<\/p>\n
Quintana was given credit for 4,016 days behind bars awaiting trial, so he is due to be released.<\/p>\n
Co-defendant Richard Perez Arteaga, 34, is charged with murder, possession of a gun by a felony, carrying a loaded unregistered gun in public and participating in gang activity, all felonies, with sentencing enhancements for the discharge of a gun causing death or great bodily injury and a special-circumstances allegation for gang activity. He is next due in court Thursday.<\/p>\n
Quintana acknowledged that on Sept. 5, 2020, he helped another gang member to assault Rodolfo Alfredo Miranda.<\/p>\n
Miranda was fatally shot about 1:30 p.m. at the Candlewood Suites at 1733 S. Anaheim St., police said.<\/p>\n
Police found Miranda near the hotel\u2019s entrance suffering from a gunshot wound, police said. He was taken to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
The two defendants have a record of gang-related crimes.<\/p>\n
Arteaga pleaded guilty in August 2017 to possession of a firearm by a felon with a sentencing enhancement for gang activity. He also admitted a misdemeanor count of street terrorism. He was also convicted of attempted murder in February 2015, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Quintana pleaded guilty in April 2019 to assault with a firearm with sentencing enhancements for gang activity and the personal use of a gun. He also pleaded guilty to misdemeanor counts of criminal threats, exhibiting a gun at a day care center and vandalism, according to court records.<\/p>\n
Quintana was out on bail at the time of the fatal shooting for gang-related vandalism, a felony, and misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance, according to court records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A convicted gang member was sentenced Friday to 11 years in prison, or time already served awaiting trial,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,28450,47389,5686,2324,96023,315],"class_list":["post-208290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-gang","tag-gets","tag-killing","tag-member","tag-served","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208290","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=208290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}