{"id":227654,"date":"2026-03-19T23:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227654\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T23:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:56:09","slug":"convicted-robber-appears-in-court-for-2011-santa-ana-assault-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227654\/","title":{"rendered":"Convicted Robber Appears in Court for 2011 Santa Ana Assault Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 35-year-old convicted robber made his first court appearance Thursday on charges of attempting to sexually assault an unconscious victim during a burglary in Santa Ana 14 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Damion Luna was charged in September 2012 with assault with intent to commit a sex offense during a burglary, burglary, attempted rape of an unconscious person and indecent exposure, all felonies, along with a misdemeanor count of sexual battery.<\/p>\n<p>Luna was arrested Tuesday and appeared in court Thursday in the case stemming from July 20, 2011. His arraignment was continued to April 9.<\/p>\n<p>Luna pleaded guilty May 2, 2011, to attempted burglary. He also pleaded guilty Oct. 27, 2009, to felony robbery with a gang enhancement, along with misdemeanor counts of elder abuse, street terrorism and resisting arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Santa Ana police and prosecutors did not immediately respond to requests for additional details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 35-year-old convicted robber made his first court appearance Thursday on charges of attempting to sexually assault an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[103549,163,165,164,103550,2598,1436,5685,3622,49363,21777],"class_list":["post-227654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-103549","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-appears","tag-assault","tag-case","tag-convicted","tag-court","tag-robber","tag-santa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227654","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=227654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}