{"id":351376,"date":"2026-09-19T23:38:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T23:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/351376\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T23:38:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T23:38:58","slug":"trial-canceled-after-manhattan-man-enters-plea-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/351376\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial canceled after Manhattan man enters plea deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Manhattan man entered a plea deal with state prosecutors Thursday morning, before his trial scheduled to start the same day began.<\/p>\n<p>Jose Maria Lara, 31, pleaded guilty to one count of criminal threat. In return for his plea, Lara\u2019s remaining two charges of aggravated assault with a knife were dropped by the prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>Lara now is scheduled for sentencing in his case on Nov. 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Manhattan man entered a plea deal with state prosecutors Thursday morning, before his trial scheduled to start&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-351376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}