A 34-year-old man with a previous felony conviction pleaded guilty Thursday and was sentenced to 22 years in prison for the gang-related fatal shooting of a 20-year-old man near the entrance of an Anaheim hotel 5 1\/2 years ago.<\/p>\n
Richard Perez Arteaga pleaded guilty to murder, possession of a gun by a felon, participating in gang activity and assault with a semiautomatic firearm. He admitted a sentencing enhancement for gang activity and discharge of a gun causing death.<\/p>\n
Co-defendant Danny Rey Quintana, 29, was sentenced March 6 to 11 years in prison, or time already served, for his part in the killing. He 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
Orange County Superior Court Judge Gary Paer sentenced Arteaga to 50 years to life in prison, but stayed that in lieu of the 22 years.<\/p>\n
The two were convicted in the Sept. 5, 2020, killing of 20-year-old Rodolfo Alfredo Miranda of Anaheim.<\/p>\n
Miranda was fatally shot about 1:30 p.m. at the Candlewood Suites at 1733 S. Anaheim Blvd., between Disney Way and Katella Avenue, 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 34-year-old man with a previous felony conviction pleaded guilty Thursday and was sentenced to 22 years in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,53924,27691,4164,5686,4165],"class_list":["post-217547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-felon","tag-gang-related","tag-guilty","tag-killing","tag-pleads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217547","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=217547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}