Ghost Ship warehouse master tenant Derick Almena pleaded guilty Friday in Oakland to 36 counts against him that may result in a 12-year prison sentence.

The charges involved at least one count of manslaughter and multiple counts of involuntary manslaughter resulting from the deaths of 36 people on Dec. 2, 2016, in a blaze that broke out during a music party at the warehouse in the 1300 block of 31st Avenue in Oakland.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.