{"id":383063,"date":"2026-07-02T03:16:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/383063\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T03:16:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:16:38","slug":"3-suspects-take-plea-deals-in-oakland-chop-shop-case-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/383063\/","title":{"rendered":"3 suspects take plea deals in Oakland chop shop case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; Three suspected members of an East Bay auto theft ring have taken plea deals tied to a notorious Oakland chop shop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Juan Montiel, 25, was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading no contest to the 2023 manslaughter of 25-year-old Kody Johnston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">30-year-old Natasha Simons and 46-year-old Andrew Trujillo both pleaded no contest to charges stemming from a car chase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities are also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/missing-men-feared-dead-amid-chop-shop-dispute-oakland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:still searching for;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;still searching for&quot;}\" class=\"link \">still searching for<\/a> Justin Wayne Lee, 29, and Esmeraldo Vivero, 34, who Oakland police believe may have been killed as a result of a dispute among car-theft suspects connected to the chop shop located at the corner of 100th Avenue and Pearmain Street in East Oakland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; Three suspected members of an East Bay auto theft ring have taken plea deals tied&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[154714,56184,9858,56185,154712,56183,154713,143,145,144,2452,105883],"class_list":["post-383063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-andrew-trujillo","tag-chop-shop","tag-east-oakland","tag-esmeraldo-vivero","tag-juan-montiel","tag-justin-wayne-lee","tag-natasha-simons","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-oakland-police","tag-pleading-no-contest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383063","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=383063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}