SFGATE: 6 and 9 years expected in pending Ghost Ship plea deals

6 and 9 years expected in pending Ghost Ship plea deals
Published on July 03, 2018 at 04:08AM by By Kimberly Veklerov
Two men accused of manslaughter in the deaths of 36 people in Oakland’s Ghost Ship warehouse fire are poised to accept a plea deal Tuesday with prosecutors in which one would serve six years in jail and the other nine, minus time already served. The artist collective’s primary tenant, Derick Almena, 48, would take the longer of the two sentences. He and his co-defendant, Max Harris, 28, the collective’s creative director, would not have to serve the full terms because they would each get credit for the months they have spent in jail since the conflagration on Dec. 2, 2016.