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Tesla Road Rage Suspect Accused of Terrorizing California Highway Drivers With Metal Pipe Now In Custody
Law & Crime ^ | 1/30/2023 | Marisa Sarnoff

Posted on 01/30/2023 5:14:00 PM PST by Right Wing Vegan

The Tesla driver believed to have been terrorizing California drivers in multiple road rage incidents is now in custody.

Nathaniel Walter Radimak, 36, was arrested Sunday by officers with the California High Patrol (CHP), according to a statement on Facebook.

“On Sunday, January 29, 2023, Mr. Nathaniel Walter Radimak was arrested by the California Highway Patrol’s Southern Division Major Crimes Unit in connection with assaults he is believed to have committed on January 11, 2023, while driving a Tesla, Model X, on State Route 2 near York Blvd, in the city of Los Angeles,” the statement says. “The assaults were captured on a dash-cam video and several leads were provided to our department by the public which led to the arrest.”

The alleged assaults took place in Glendale, located around 7 miles north of downtown Los Angeles.

According to local news affiliate KCAL, the suspect was allegedly caught on camera swerving in front of another vehicle heading south on State Route 2, a nearly 90-mile highway that connects the beachside city of Santa Monica to the Angeles National Forest.

Dashcam footage shows a man with a face covering apparently exiting his car and approaching the driver’s side of the car he had purportedly just cut off. He is carrying what appears to be a metal pipe in his right hand. Although the footage doesn’t capture him hitting the window, at least three loud thuds are heard as the camera shakes, indicating that the driver’s side of the vehicle is being struck.

The masked man then gets back into the Tesla and leaves.

The driver of the car in that video told KCAL that he recorded the suspect trying to hit another car with the pole he was carrying. That driver was reportedly able to avoid being struck.

Local ABC News affiliate KABC reported that other drivers have reported similar violent encounters in nearby areas over the course of the last few months. One woman recorded the alleged suspect approaching and harassing her while she was in her car at a storage facility. She says she reported him to the management and left, but he followed her and confronted her at a red light.

Yet another woman said that the man attacked her car on the freeway after cutting her off.

KABC also reported that online sleuths have linked the suspect to punching a woman in the face in October 2021 and slashing another woman’s tires in March 2022. At least 10 people have said they have had frightening encounters with the suspect, according to KABC.

The CHP statement said Radimak was arrested in Torrance, about 30 miles south of where the alleged assaults occurred.

Online records indicate that Radimak has two outstanding warrants against him and he is being held on more than $5 million bail. He is currently in LAPD custody and facing charges of assault with a deadly weapon.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; crime; roadrage; tesla
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To: BradyLS

“Probably expecting more deference and consideration for driving a Tesla and incensed the little people treat it like any other car.”

That, plus he looks like a roid rager. IMO that’s a tiny little man who wants big muscles and takes steroids. Steroids make some guys very aggressive. He appears to be a typical Napoleon complex.


21 posted on 01/30/2023 7:38:20 PM PST by bicyclerepair (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

In one video the sick man stopped on the freeway, opened his door, and walked toward the car behind him. Wow. That’s really bad. I’m sure he feels horrible about his actions but cannot stop.


22 posted on 01/30/2023 9:00:55 PM PST by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

free to purchase an illegal fire are while the FBI watches him resume his position on the free way. The FBI, we had him in our sites and we were watching him closely as he is charged with murder in the near future


23 posted on 01/31/2023 3:45:01 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Right Wing Vegan

He is currently in LAPD custody and facing charges of assault with a deadly.

Cell block C gets new bitch extra smokes handed out before he arrives lights out early.


24 posted on 01/31/2023 9:36:15 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: absalom01

It’s Los Angeles, California. Nobody here is allowed to pack heat except the cops, judges, politicians, wealthy donors, and the occasional well trained security people (and them, only when working). I think Los Angeles has a total of 12 concealed carry permits. Maybe the county has a little more but not many. It’s notoriously difficult to get.

Of course, if he rolled up on the wrong car with the wrong driver in the wrong neighborhood that could be a different story.


25 posted on 01/31/2023 12:05:03 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: monkeyshine

The old sheriff did a few things right, and one of them was issuing a few more CCW’s and I’m hopeful that the Bruen decision will eventually work its way to California after a few more court cases.

That said, tactically there would be no problem using your own car to put the clown out of action, and at least one of those cases appears to be a very clear deadly force situation. Milage may vary.

Oh, and to no one’s surprise he has a long, long record, with a recent arrest for 11378 HSC (Tweak) and 242PC (simple battery). A real knucklehead.

https://unicourt.com/case/ca-lac1-radimak-nathaniel-891523


26 posted on 01/31/2023 12:15:13 PM PST by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Since he drives a Tesla would be a shame if someone put a couple of rounds into that Teslas battery pack. Make it a lot easier to find him , just follow the smoke.


27 posted on 01/31/2023 12:37:07 PM PST by Polynikes (Nicht geimpft Mensch 2nd Klasse)
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