Surveillance footage shows notorious road rage Tesla driver up to his old tricks after early jail release

Newly surfaced surveillance footage captures the chilling infinitesimal a notoriously assertive Tesla operator allegedly targeted a parent and girl successful different road-rage outburst, conscionable months aft being released from prison. 

Nathaniel Radimak, 39, was arrested Thursday aft allegedly speeding past an 18-year-old operator successful Honolulu, Hawaii, and punching her successful the look earlier turning connected her mother, according to KITV. 

The video shows Radimak making a U-turn earlier confronting the pair. The mother, identified arsenic Ung, said helium began shouting astatine her daughter, whose babe was dormant successful the car.

He is present charged with unauthorized introduction into a centrifugal vehicle, battle and contempt of tribunal successful Hawaii, wherever helium besides had an outstanding postulation warrant dating backmost to January 2023.

Radimak was cited astatine the clip for driving without a valid drivers licence and speeding much than 30 miles per hr implicit the posted limit, according to the Star Advertiser. 

He is besides connected parole successful California, wherever helium pleaded blameworthy successful 2023 to assault, vandalism, elder maltreatment and transgression threats aft helium was caught utilizing a metallic tube to bash successful much than a twelve victim's cars passim Los Angeles County betwixt 2022 and 2023.

Several of those attacks were caught connected camera, showing Radimak wielding the tube and approaching drivers' vehicles.

He was yet sentenced successful September 2023 to 5 years successful situation - but was astonishingly released from situation aft serving little than 1 twelvemonth down bars. 

A tribunal granted him 424 days of pre-sentence recognition for clip served portion awaiting sentencing, ABC 7 News antecedently reported. 

In his latest attack, Radimak allegedly sped past arsenic Diane Ung was teaching her teenage girl however to parallel parkland extracurricular of their condo.

Ung told KITV, helium was traveling astatine 40 to 50mph down the residential, erstwhile helium astir clipped her daughter's car.

'And past her large mouth, you cognize section radical gonna outcry retired their window, she said, "Slow down!"'

At that point, Ung said the assertive operator made a U-turn and started yelling astatine her teenage daughter, whose seven-month-old babe was dormant successful the vehicle.

He taunted, 'What the F did you accidental to me? Say backmost to me,' Ung recounted.

'Then helium got person to my daughter's window, reached successful and punched her successful the face.'

Outraged, Ung said she got retired of the car to support her girl - prompting Radimak to endanger her, arsenic well.

But Ung said she had her iced java from McDonald's successful her hand, which she past decided to propulsion astatine his car.

'And helium came moving crossed the street, struck maine similar a Superman punch close wrong my face,' she claimed.

'I fell down to the ground, large gash successful my head. And I'm conscionable like, "Go cheque connected the baby. Don't interest astir me. Go cheque connected the baby,"' Ung remembered telling her daughter.

The onslaught connected Wednesday near galore passim California and Honolulu outraged that Radimak was allowed to get backmost connected the roadworthy pursuing his merchandise from prison.

'When you get distant with thing bad, your actions lone escalate - and we spot that here,' Honolulu defence lawyer Megan Kau told KITV.

'It's alleged that this idiosyncratic punched a young miss successful the face,' she continued. 'That's crazy, and truthful this is simply a axenic illustration of wherefore radical request to beryllium punished.'

Stanley Aragon, the teenage victim's uncle, agreed.

'I would hope, you know, that HPD does prosecute him and bash a amended occupation than California of keeping him down bars, truthful that helium tin astatine slightest larn a lesson, possibly get immoderate benignant of help,' he told ABC 7.

'It seems helium has choler issues, he's lashing out. 

'Who knows what helium mightiness beryllium susceptible of next?' helium asked, rhetorically. 'It's lone escalating.'

But the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has said Radimak earned recognition for timed service portion helium was incarcerated and served his 'full condemnation arsenic defined by law.'

Legal adept Lou Shapiro claims helium was released owed to overcrowding successful California's prisons.

'If idiosyncratic commits a convulsive transgression - similar robbery, murder, rape - thing of that nature, they volition beryllium kept longer into their sentence, 60 to 80 percent marker,' helium said.

'Anything abbreviated of that - transgression threats, vandalism - specified arsenic this lawsuit that we're talking about, it could beryllium lone 30 to 50 percent, which would explicate wherefore helium got retired truthful overmuch sooner than everyone anticipated.'

Still, Radimak's victims were near infuriated erstwhile they learned the assertive operator was going to beryllium fto backmost connected the streets.

'I'm incapable to judge specified a abbreviated condemnation would effect successful immoderate benignant of behavioral betterment oregon rehabilitation, considering the magnitude of clip he's been committing crimes,' 1 unfortunate said during a Zoom quality conference.

Some of the different victims said they felt the justness strategy failed them by not allowing their voices to beryllium heard earlier a plea woody was made.

One of the victims, lone identified arsenic Jane Doe One, adjacent called retired the Los Angeles D.A., saying helium 'let galore of the victims of Nathaniel Radimak down.'

'He plays an indispensable relation successful prosecuting crimes and ensuring offenders are held accountable for their actions, but this did not happen,' she said.

'Our law rights were violated and were not followed by the D.A.’s office. He did not decently correspond our rights.'

But the Los Angeles County DA released a connection astatine the clip saying it 'does not find erstwhile an inmate volition beryllium released from custody.'