A 40-year-old ex-security guard pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter Friday and was immediately sentenced to 11 years in prison in connection with the New Year\u2019s Eve killing of a man in Santa Ana.<\/p>\n
In a plea deal with prosecutors, Toetu Tesarina Lavea pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter. She was given credit for 1,842 days behind bars. As part of the plea deal, a charge of murder with a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a deadly weapon was dismissed.<\/p>\n
The woman admitted to killing 46-year-old Manuel Ramos of Santa Ana Dec. 31, 2020.<\/p>\n
Police said they were called at 6:46 p.m. Jan. 2, 2021 to a residence in the 1800 block of West 18th Street, where they found Ramos\u2019 body in the living room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 40-year-old ex-security guard pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter Friday and was immediately sentenced to 11 years in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,28469,4164,5686,4165,21777,8580,688],"class_list":["post-339076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-guard","tag-guilty","tag-killing","tag-pleads","tag-santa","tag-security","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339076","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=339076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}