{"id":68430,"date":"2015-12-04T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T20:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=68430"},"modified":"2019-02-07T14:13:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T22:13:51","slug":"acton-man-pleads-to-causing-drug-related-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2015\/12\/04\/acton-man-pleads-to-causing-drug-related-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Acton man pleads to causing drug-related death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_68432\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68432\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Tommy-Loaiza-Acton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-68432\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Tommy-Loaiza-Acton-267x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tommy Loaiza [booking photo courtesy: LASD]\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Tommy-Loaiza-Acton-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Tommy-Loaiza-Acton.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tommy Loaiza [booking photo courtesy: <a href=\"http:\/\/local.nixle.com\/alert\/5422965\/\" target=\"_blank\">LASD<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>An Acton man pleaded no contest Friday to involuntary manslaughter for the death of a Santa Clarita man from a drug overdose.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tommy Loaiza<\/strong>, 38, is facing eight years in state prison in connection with his plea, in which he admitted a 1995 conviction for second-degree robbery, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Loaiza was charged earlier this year in connection with the death of <strong>Kahlil Banks<\/strong>, 42.<\/p>\n<p>Banks was found dead from an overdose May 21 at his apartment in the 28000 block of Sarabande Lane, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Loaiza supplied heroin to Banks, then left him for dead after the man overdosed, according to Deputy District Attorney Jeffrey Illions.<\/p>\n<p>Loaiza was arrested six days later after Los Angeles County sheriff&#8217;s deputies saw him driving Banks&#8217; Toyota Tacoma pickup truck, which had been missing.<\/p>\n<p>Loaiza was charged May 29 with one count each of murder, involuntary manslaughter, grand theft of an automobile and sale of heroin.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining counts are expected to be dismissed as a result of his plea when he is sentenced Dec. 18 in a San Fernando courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Acton man pleaded no contest Friday to involuntary manslaughter for the death of a Santa Clarita man from a drug overdose. Tommy Loaiza, 38, is facing eight years in state prison in connection with his plea, in which he admitted a 1995 conviction for second-degree robbery, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1492,719],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}