Overview
- Prosecutors said the sentence follows a May 7, 2025 Honolulu attack in which Nathaniel Radimak turned back while driving, reached into a car, punched an 18-year-old and then struck her mother who required eight stitches.
- Police arrested Radimak in Waikiki on May 8, 2025 after surveillance video of the confrontation was shared with investigators and local media.
- Radimak pleaded no contest to Hawaii charges on January 6 and was sentenced this week to seven years in prison by Judge Clarissa Malinao.
- The judge and prosecutors pointed to Radimak’s prior Southern California road-rage convictions, his early release from a 2023 sentence after serving less than a year, and reported illicit drug use while on parole as reasons for the longer term.
- Defense lawyers cited diagnoses and changing medications as mitigation, and the case is likely to prompt renewed attention to cross-state parole practices, prison crowding that led to early releases, and gaps in treatment for people with serious mental-health and substance-use issues.