Here's a case we've followed but could not get to last week: Daniel Vidal Santana, who pleaded guilty in September to pulling an early morning crime wave
that included beating up a dancer he met at an Anaheim strip club, was sentenced Friday to 21 years and eight months in state prison.
The Stanton 26-year-old's path to the joint began shortly after midnight Nov. 11, 2010, as a stripper finished giving Santana's buddy a lap dance.
]
See also:
Illegally Park-ed: An Irvine cop ejaculates on a motorist but escapes criminal liability
Carlos Rosario Gonzales Murders over OC Club's No-Fondling-the-Strippers Rule
Went to a Crime Scene and a Lap Dance Broke Out: 7 Examples of OC Strip Club Mayhem
Santana suggested that after the 34-year-old dancer's shift ended at Flamingo Showgirls, she meet him at a gas station. Upon arrival, she was escorted by Santana into a nearby alley, where he beat the shit out of her. He then drove her in her car to a second location, where he raped her.
As Santana later tried to check them into a Long Beach motel, the woman managed to alert the front-desk clerk that she had been assaulted. Santana then high-tailed it for her car and sped off. Police investigators followed the evidence trail to Santana's home, where a few days after the assault they found a pair of bloody shoes and the dancer's car keys.
Santana pleaded guilty to kidnapping, sexual assault and auto theft.
Follow OC Weekly on Twitter @ocweekly or on Facebook!
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.