A man who fatally stabbed another man in the O’Farrell neighborhood, then stole the victim’s car, was sentenced Monday to 14 years in state prison.<\/p>\n
David Nava, 23, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and other charges in connection with the Aug. 24, 2024, killing of 55-year-old Francisco Cruz.<\/p>\n
Police said that after Cruz did not show up for work, his family members went to check on him at his Madrone Avenue residence and found him dead.<\/p>\n
Nava was tracked down in Cruz’s vehicle the following day in Orange County after the car was flagged by the Automated License Plate Recognition system, according to police.<\/p>\n
An Orange County sheriff’s deputy attempted to stop the car at around 3:30 a.m. Aug. 25, at which point Nava ditched the car and was arrested after a foot chase with the deputy.<\/p>\n
Along with the manslaughter count, Nava pleaded guilty to charges of vehicle theft and resisting arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who fatally stabbed another man in the O’Farrell neighborhood, then stole the victim’s car, was sentenced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3552,21536,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-289516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-encanto","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289516","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=289516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}