Peter Robbins, now 59, used to voice the beloved children’s cartoon and Peanuts comic-strip character, Charlie Brown. From age 9 to 13, Robbins played Charlie Brown in the 1960s classic cartoons A Charlie Brown Christmas and It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.
Since 1972, Robbins hasn’t done much acting, and instead has developed quite the rap sheet.
Two years ago, Robbins pleaded guilty to stalking and threatening an ex-girlfriend and her plastic surgeon. Robbins was unhappy with the results of a breast enhancement surgery he allegedly paid for his ex to undergo, and was seeking a refund from the surgeon.
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On Monday, Robbins was sentenced to nearly five years in prison for making more criminal threats.
He pleaded guilty last month to sending threatening letters to a manager at a mobile home park in suburban Oceanside, Calif., where he lived. He also sent letters to members of the media in which he offered to pay money to have San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore killed.
Prosecutors said he also threatened a San Diego judge, but that charge was not part of a plea agreement.
Robbins, who made numerous outbursts in earlier hearings, was relatively subdued at his sentencing, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune. His attorney, Joey Super, made a request on his client’s behalf to withdraw his plea.
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William Chidsey Jr., a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge who was brought in to handle the case after San Diego judges recused themselves, sentenced the former actor to four years and eight months in prison.
Robbins claims that he has bipolar disorder and suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.
-With files from The Associated Press
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