DATE: March 24, 2026<\/p>\n
CASE: Arturo Hernandez (Case #17FE022753)<\/p>\n
PROSECUTOR: Deputy District Attorney Cody Winchester, Homicide Unit<\/p>\n
Arturo Hernandez was convicted by a jury of the second-degree murder of Anthony Freas. The jury also found true the allegation that Hernandez personally used a weapon.<\/p>\n
Hernandez was estranged from his wife when she began dating the victim. When Hernandez learned of their relationship, he got angry. \u00a0One night, Hernandez tried reaching the wife by phone, but she did not respond. \u00a0The wife had fallen asleep with the victim at her apartment.\u00a0 While the pair slept, Hernandez entered her apartment without permission and went to her bedroom. As the victim slept, Hernandez stabbed him multiple times, killing him. Hernandez then fled the apartment and escaped to Mexico, where he hid for approximately five years before being taken into custody and extradited back to Sacramento for trial.<\/p>\n
Hernandez faces a maximum sentence of 16 years to life in prison.\u00a0 Sentencing is set for April 17, 2026, at 9:00 a.m. in Department 24 before the Honorable Alyson Lewis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DATE: March 24, 2026 CASE: Arturo Hernandez (Case #17FE022753) PROSECUTOR: Deputy District Attorney Cody Winchester, Homicide Unit Arturo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-235965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235965","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=235965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}