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DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 18, 1990                   TAG: 9004180559
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A/1   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: JAMES RAINEY LOS ANGELES TIMES
DATELINE: TORRANCE, CALIF.                                LENGTH: Short

HOT RODDER THREATENED WITH 275 YEARS

A man accused of terrorizing his neighbors in the Los Angeles suburb of Torrance by hot-rodding in his souped-up Volkswagen Beetle pleaded no contest to 732 criminal charges Tuesday and agreed to stay out of the neighborhood or face a 275-year jail sentence.

Jonathan Shane Allabaugh, 21, said at a hearing in South Bay Municipal Court that he will move out of the enclave known as the Hollywood Riviera.

Judge Benjamin Aranda said he is prepared to sentence Allabaugh to the maximum jail term if he breaks the law or so much as sets foot in the Hollywood Riviera after June 1.

"I don't care if it's spitting on the sidewalk, smoking a marijuana cigarette or going back into that area again," Aranda said. "If you do any of those things, I will sentence you to 275 years, I promise you that."

The judge's ruling ratified an unusual plea agreement between Torrance prosecutor J.D. Lord and Allabaugh's attorney, Kevin Donahue.

In exchange for a guarantee that he not be sent to jail, Allabaugh chose not to fight 730 charges - one count of disturbing the peace and one count of driving on a suspended license for every day of the year that ended last Aug. 31. He also pleaded no contest to charges of assault with a deadly weapon - for driving toward a man - and brandishing a shotgun.

Allabaugh faced 275 years in jail - five years for the weapons charges combined, six months for each charge of driving on a suspended license and three months for each charge of disturbing the peace. Aranda stayed the jail time and placed Allabaugh on probation for the same period.

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