A Tesla driver who terrorized California highways with a pipe-smoking, road-rage attack was released Wednesday after less than a year of his sentence, leaving his victims “disappointed” with the state's justice system.
Nathaniel Raddimac, 37, was released on parole from state prison on Wednesday, having served just 10 months of a five-year sentence given to the hotheaded electric vehicle driver last September. KTLA5.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said Ladimac had “fully served the full term of his sentence prescribed by law” and credited him with 424 days served while awaiting sentencing, 212 days for actual time served in custody and an additional 212 days for good behavior.
During his terrorist activities, Radimak vandalized passing cars with metal pipes, threatened people and harassed motorists across Southern California.
In the now-viral video, Raddimac allegedly jumped out of a charcoal-colored 2022 Tesla Model X with no license plates with a pipe in his hand and crashed into a truck behind it on Jan. 11, 2023. Raddimac struck the vehicle several times before driving off.
Radimak was arrested a few weeks later and police found steroids and more than $30,000 in his car.
After his arrest, it was discovered that Ladimac had a lengthy criminal history “spanning nearly two decades and multiple states,” KTLA reported, citing prosecutors.
Last September, Radimak was convicted of multiple felonies during the 2022-2023 riots.
However, the road rage attacker pleaded guilty to assault, property damage, elder abuse and criminal threatening and was sentenced to five years in prison in a plea deal with prosecutors.
He has now been released and returned to his California town, but several of the women who were victims of his assault are outraged by his release and “concerned” for their safety.
Prominent lawyer Gloria Allred is representing three victims of Ladimak's attack.
“I am very disappointed in the overall outcome of this case leading up to his release,” Jane Doe, one of Ladimac's victims, told KTLA on Wednesday.
“It is highly unlikely that Mr. Radimak will learn from his mistakes and emerge as a changed person in any short space of time.”
“I'm worried that he's going to try and track down the victims whose names have been made public,” Jane Doe said.
Allred said her clients were informed they would be released from jail on the same day the defendants were released.
“His early release has come as a shock and disappointment to the many victims I represent,” Allred said. NBC Los Angeles.
“Many of the victims were not consulted about the plea agreements and were not given a voice in the sentencing.”
One of the anonymous victims of the Tesla terrorist attack, a woman who identified herself as “Jane Doe 1,” told NBC News: “I hope he learned something in his short time in prison.”
Like Raddimac's other victims, she feels California's justice system has let her down.
“The Parole Board continues to allow offenders to be released after serving minimum sentences, putting too many innocent people at risk and sending the wrong message to criminals,” she said, criticizing California's lax treatment of criminals.
California's violent crime rate in 2023 will be 18% higher than when Governor Gavin Newsom took office in 2019, state data has revealed. Public Policy Institute of California.
In 2022, aggravated assaults in California increased by 25.3% compared to 2019, while homicides increased by 33.9%.
Nearly all inmates in California are automatically Good Deeds Credit (GCC) Once in the criminal justice system, Proposition 57The bill was passed in November 2016, before Newsom took office.
According to the 2023 report CBS NewsThe GCC “reduces sentences for violent offenses by 33.3% and sentences for non-violent offenses by 50-66.6% on the day an inmate arrives at the prison.”
According to the outlet, since 2019, tens of thousands of felons have received reduced sentences and been released early, only to be rearrested for violent crimes.
“We don't know if[CDCR's programs]are working,” Heather Harris, a senior research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, told the outlet in June 2023.
The California Legislature passed a bill requiring CDCR to track the effectiveness of rehabilitation programs. 2018 State Audit.
However, in 2019, Governor Newsom The bill was rejected“The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation would be required to contract with researchers to conduct a recidivism analysis of the effectiveness of rehabilitation programs and submit a report to the Legislature. The bill's objectives could be achieved administratively,” CBS reported.
