The Tesla driver who turned infamous for violent, pipe-wielding incidents of highway rage by video captured by a sufferer could also be again on highways prior to anticipated.
Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón described Nathaniel Radimak’s “reign of terror” when he was charged in January 2023.
Now, the 37-year-old could possibly be freed after serving lower than a yr of his five-year sentence, in accordance with information from the California Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation. His earliest eligible parole date is listed as August 2024, although the division famous the date was “topic to alter.”
Sprint-cam video captured an incident of highway rage on Jan. 29, 2023.
(California Freeway Patrol)
Radimak is being held on the Sierra Conservation Heart in Jamestown, about 50 miles southeast of Stockton. The minimum- to medium-security
facility additionally serves as a coaching middle for incarcerated individuals who help in firefighting efforts.
He’s been there since Oct. 3, 2023.
Radimak was initially charged with 4 counts of assault by the use of pressure more likely to produce nice bodily harm, 4 counts of felony threats and one felony rely of vandalism, together with two misdemeanor counts of vandalism and one misdemeanor rely of elder abuse.
He pleaded no contest and was ultimately sentenced to 5 years for stalking and two years for felony threats (served concurrently) in state jail in August 2023.
He’s credited with 424 days served awaiting sentencing — 212 days for time served and 212 days for good conduct, in accordance with Los Angeles County Superior Courtroom information.
In June 2022, Radimak threatened a 74-year-old girl outdoors a health care provider’s workplace in Glendale, and in that November he threatened a girl at a storage facility in Atwater Village, Los Angeles County prosecutors stated. That very same day, he obtained out of his Tesla, threatened a girl on a freeway and broke one in all her headlights.
On Jan. 11, 2023, prosecutors stated, he struck one other car with a pipe on the two Freeway close to York Boulevard, an incident caught on dash-cam video. He was additionally accused of following a automotive from a Pasadena mall later that day, almost hitting it together with his car, then hanging it with a steel pipe.
