A Tesla driver linked to a string of violent attacks in road rage incidents across California has been sentenced to five years in prison for threatening him, according to a report.
Nathaniel Walter Radimak, 36, dubbed “Tesla’s road rage man,” was convicted Monday of several felony charges during his rampage from 2022 to 2023, ABC7 reported.
He was found guilty of criminal threats, vandalism, assault, and elder abuse.
“I think it’s not over yet, especially because five years is not enough,” a victim of Radimak’s rage, known as Gracia, told the outlet.
Radimak was arrested in late January in Torrance by members of the California Highway Patrol’s Southern Division Major Crimes Unit in connection with one of his many viral attacks.
Law enforcement found steroids and more than $30,000 in his car at the time of his arrest, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said.
On January 11, a driver’s dashboard camera captured the moment Radimak attacked his truck with a metal pipe on the 2 Freeway in Glendale.Youtube/ABC7
Nathaniel Radimak was pulled over by the California Highway Patrol in Torrance on Sunday. California Highway Patrol
“I just think he’s going to come out and be angry, especially because all of our names are out in the public record, for the majority of us,” Gracia said.
His fears stem from an altercation with Radimak in November 2022 at a storage facility in Atwater Village, a Los Angeles neighborhood.
The madman driving the Tesla started harassing Garcia for no reason and followed him in his car after he tried to escape from Radimak.
Law enforcement found steroids and more than $30,000 in his Tesla at the time of his arrest.Youtube/ABC7
Recording the encounter for his safety, Radimak tells Garcia he better “go outside Cali where you’re from” and hurls expletives at him after chasing down the fleeing victim.
Gracia told Radimak that she was “born and raised in LA” during the stressful attack, the outlet said.
Radimak’s anger continued later that day after he allegedly got out of his Tesla on the highway and broke one of its headlights.
Radimak was found guilty of criminal threats, vandalism, assault and abuse of the elderly.Youtube/ABC7
“He went around me and stopped completely, and this was on a full highway, and just got out of the car and started hitting me,” a victim identified as Gabi told the outlet after Radimak’s sentencing.
“I think if I don’t run away, he’ll break my window.”
Radimak is also accused of using a pipe to hit a car on a highway in Glendale, prosecutors said on Jan. 11 following his arrest.
Radimak was seen driving this charcoal colored Tesla without a license plate.Youtube/ABC7
In the video of the attack, Radimak, dressed in a green T-shirt, dark jeans, and a black mask, jumps out of his charcoal-colored 2022 Tesla Model X, with no license plate and welding pipes.
The maniac then began swinging the weapon violently at the Chevy pickup truck behind him several times before getting into his car and driving off.
“At first you think, ‘Should I ram it into the wall with my car?’ ‘Should I run him?’ ‘What should I do?’” the victim told station KTLA in January.
His anger continued that day after a Tesla thug allegedly followed a couple into a shopping mall in Pasadena, nearly hitting their vehicle twice with his car and then reportedly got out of his Tesla and hit their vehicle with a metal pole as well, prosecutors revealed earlier this year.
Radimak also has a pending case where he is suspected of assaulting another driver in a road rage incident that occurred in Hollywood in January 2020.
The 36-year-old man is also accused of threatening to assault a 74-year-old woman outside a doctor’s office in Glendale in June 2022.
Other alleged victims contacted ABC7, saying their reports about the incident involving Radimak were never submitted to the district attorney’s office.
“We feel that justice has been done, although we also feel that many victims are not being heard,” said Gracia.
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