Santa Ana man gets only nine years in prison after his street racing killed a news editor

Ricardo Tolento, a street racer whose unlawful and unsafe driving directly led to the death of Eugene “Gene” Harbrecht a 67-year-old news editor in Santa Ana five years ago was sentenced by O.C. Superior Court Judge Kimberly Menninger, a former prosecutor, to only nine years in prison on Friday, April 4.Tolento’s defense attorney, Tom Nocella, a public defender told the court that the other street racer who was arrested in the Harbrecht incident, Louie Robert Villa, w