Actor linked to deaths of LA model, her friend gets probation and community service

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- An actor charged in connection with the 2021 deaths of a model and her friend in Los Angeles was sentenced Monday to community service and probation.

Brandt Osborn was charged with being an accessory after the fact. He pleaded no contest in court and was sentenced to two years of formal probation and 480 hours of community service.

Co-defendant David Pearce, a Hollywood producer, was sentenced in October to 146 years to life in state prison for seven sexual assaults and the fentanyl-induced murders of model Christy Giles and Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola, according to the L.A. County District Attorney's Office.

Prosecutors argued Pearce gave Giles and Cabrales-Arzola fentanyl and then dumped their bodies outside two hospitals.

Osborn was allegedly with Pearce when he did this.

Earlier this year, a jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict against Osborn for two counts of accessory to murder after the fact.