Delhi defendant sentenced for murder of Hilmar girlfriend Jesus Ortega
A Delhi man is headed to prison for several decades for stabbing to death his girlfriend in front of her teenage daughters outside their Hilmar home in 2010.
On Jan. 6, Merced County Superior Court Judge Carol Ash sentenced Jesus Ortega, 49, of Delhi to 33 years, 8 months to life in prison for the 2010 murder of Armanda Lllanos-Flores. Ortega had been found guilty by a Merced County jury on Nov. 10, 2020 on charges of felony first-degree murder with personal use of a deadly weapon, one count of felony assault with a deadly weapon causing great bodily injury, and one count of felony criminal threats.