Man With 'Violent Criminal History' Charged With Stabbing Man To Death

ORANGE COUNTY, CA — A 52-year-old Yorba Linda man was charged Thursday with fatally stabbing another man in unincorporated Anaheim.

Effrum Maland Burnett was charged with murder with a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a deadly weapon. Burnett is accused of killing 50-year-old Toye Mims Jones, according to court records.

Deputies were dispatched at 3:41 p.m. Tuesday to the 9000 block of Canton Avenue regarding the stabbing, deputies said. Upon arrival, they found the victim and rushed to him to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Burnett was arrested about 1 a.m. Wednesday.

In a motion to increase bail from $1 million to $2 million, sheriff's deputies said Burnett is a third-striker with a "violent criminal history."

Burnett "admitted to being an alcoholic who uses methamphetamine and relies on psychiatric medication, which he is consistent on taking," sheriff's investigator J. White said in court papers.

"Burnett also said that when he does not take his medication and when he uses methamphetamine and alcohol, he `flashes in and out' and does irrational things," White said.

Bail was set at $1 million at Burnett's first appearance in court when his arraignment was rescheduled for Tuesday.