{"id":68836,"date":"2015-12-21T12:49:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T20:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=68836"},"modified":"2019-02-07T14:13:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T22:13:51","slug":"acton-man-gets-8-years-for-causing-drug-related-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2015\/12\/21\/acton-man-gets-8-years-for-causing-drug-related-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Acton man gets 8 years for causing drug-related death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_68432\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68432\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-68432 size-medium\" 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\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tommy Loaiza [booking photo courtesy: LASD]<\/figcaption><\/figure>A 38-year-old Acton man was sentenced Friday, Dec. 18, to eight years in state prison for furnishing drugs, which ultimately caused a man to overdose.<\/p>\n<p>Superior Court Judge Hayden Zacky imposed the term on <strong>Tommy Loaiza<\/strong> who was charged in the death of <strong>Kahlil Banks<\/strong>, 42.<\/p>\n<p>Loaiza pleaded no contest Dec. 4 and admitted that he had a 1995 conviction for second-degree robbery, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Banks was found dead from an overdose May 21 at his apartment in the 28000 block of Sarabande Lane in Santa Clarita, 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>Three other counts filed against Loaiza in May &#8212; murder, grand theft of an automobile and sale of heroin &#8212; were dismissed as a result of his plea.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Previous related story<\/span>: <a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2015\/12\/04\/acton-man-pleads-to-causing-drug-related-death\/\" target=\"_blank\">Acton man pleads to causing drug-related death<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 38-year-old Acton man was sentenced Friday, Dec. 18, to eight years in state prison for furnishing drugs, which ultimately caused a man to overdose. Superior Court Judge Hayden Zacky imposed the term on Tommy Loaiza who was charged in the death of Kahlil Banks, 42. Loaiza pleaded no contest Dec. 4 and admitted that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68432,"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\/68836"}],"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=68836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}