From 15 years to life in prison, a 36-year-old Hispanic and Santa Ana resident was sentenced Tuesday. for the 2015 murder of a female escort in an office building in Newport Beach where she worked as a janitor.
Nain Isaac Nieto Hernandez was convicted of second-degree murder of 23-year-old Sarah Alcaraz, originally from Long Beach, on December 18, 2015. in an office building at 5030 Campus Drive in Newport Beach.
“It was a horrible death that he didn’t deserve,” Senior Assistant District Attorney Robert Goodkin told Orange County Superior Court Judge Richard King minutes before sentencing.
“I thought he had a defense and I thought he was innocent, but he was found guilty and we accepted that,” Nieto Hernandez’s lawyer, Cameron Talley, said.
The jury deliberated for two days before reaching a verdict.
In 2015, police officers arrived at the office of an architecture firm shortly after midnight when the women’s escort service reported the disappearance of one of its employeesaccording to the Goodkin court report.
The police found the body a victim inside a dumpster in a pantry.
The victim reportedly sustained serious head and facial injuries with bleeding from both ears and nose, Goodkin said.
Authorities they found the defendant’s driver’s license at the scene and also discovered a Smith & Wesson semi-automatic pistol.
Hernandez, a mixed martial artist, testified that he acted in self-defense when she tried to rob him and that he simply pushed her but did not hit her.
Source: La Opinion
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