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In criminal legal news out of the Los Angeles area, according to reports Steven David Royds pleaded guilty in a plea agreement and was sentenced to four years in prison. Royds when arrested was living at the Fairmont Newport Beach Hotel and upon searching his apartment the body of his girlfriend Monique Felicia Trepp in a plastic Bin and kept with dry ice.

Royds entered his guilty plea at the Harbor Justice Center in Newport Beach, which has been reported that he had little choice but to accept the agreement or he would possibly serve nine years in prison for selling cocaine according to prosecutor Jeff Levy. The plea agreement will also require that Royds will register as a drug offender.

The charges stemmed from an informant that had reported he was buying cocaine at a bar named the Classic Q at Newport Beach. This led to the search of Royds apartment and the discovery of Trepp’s body. If you currently reside in Los Angeles or the greater Southern California area and you need a top drawer Los Angeles criminal defense attorney then I certainly can recommend the Law Offices of Ramiro Luis. He is quite simply one of the leading Los Angeles criminal defense attorney working
According to police Royds was not suspected in the death of his girlfriend, as an autopsy report showed that Trepp overdosed on alcohol and cocaine leading to her death. It is also suspected that Royds did not report the death due to an outstanding warrant for his arrest. Sounds like a criminal all the way, not much defense for that.