{"id":333851,"date":"2026-05-27T03:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333851\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T03:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:00:23","slug":"tesla-driver-infamous-for-california-road-rage-attacks-goes-to-prison-for-another-one-in-hawaii-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333851\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla driver infamous for California road rage attacks goes to prison for another one in Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Tesla driver who became infamous for a series of road rage attacks captured on camera in Southern California is headed to prison after being convicted of a similar attack in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Nathaniel Radimak, 40, was previously convicted and jailed in Los Angeles over two incidents of road rage, during which he was seen threatening women with a pipe in 2022 and 2023. But after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2024-08-29\/road-rage-tesla-driver-who-smashed-cars-with-pipe-released-from-prison-early\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:serving less than a year;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;serving less than a year&quot;}\" class=\"link \">serving less than a year <\/a>of his five-year sentence, he was paroled and released due to overcrowding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Then last May, he was arrested in connection with an attack in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Honolulu police<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-05-09\/a-convicted-road-rage-assailant-released-from-jail-in-socal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:arrested Radimak;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;arrested Radimak&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> arrested Radimak <\/a>after he exchanged words with an 18-year-old woman parking her car on Halekauwila Street, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2023-02-01\/tesla-road-rage-suspect-los-angeles-history-of-violence-threats?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=promo_module&amp;utm_campaign=rss_feed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Inside a Tesla driver&#039;s alleged &#039;reign of terror&#039; on L.A. freeways and violent past;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Inside a Tesla driver&#039;&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Inside a Tesla driver&#8217;s alleged &#8216;reign of terror&#8217; on L.A. freeways and violent past<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Radimak was accused of getting out of his car and assaulting her and a 35-year-old woman before fleeing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was charged with one count of unauthorized entry into a car and two counts of assault in the third degree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">His attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After initially pleading not guilty in the case, Radimak entered a plea of no contest in court earlier this year and was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/newsletters\/essential-california?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=newsletter_module&amp;utm_campaign=essential-california\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. 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Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This story originally appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-05-26\/tesla-road-rage-driver-sentenced\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Los Angeles Times;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Los Angeles Times&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Tesla driver who became infamous for a series of road rage attacks captured on camera in Southern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,859,8,2289,47,137416,1009,138142],"class_list":["post-333851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-highway-patrol","tag-california-news","tag-hawaii","tag-los-angeles","tag-nathaniel-radimak","tag-southern-california","tag-tesla-model-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}