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Three of the charges initially filed against 59-year-old
Peter Robbins were dismissed on Tuesday after he pled guilty to
threatening the manager and San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore,
San Diego County Deputy District Attorney Brenda Daly said.
"His behavior has become more violent," Daly said.
Robbins was arrested in February on probation violations for
cutting off his GPS monitor and drinking.
In September, he was charged with threatening the mobile park
manager and making other threats including one against a judge,
a jailhouse solicitation to kill Sheriff Gore and vandalizing
his cell.
Robbins was first arrested in 2013 for harassing and threatening
a former girlfriend and the plastic surgeon who enhanced her
breasts. He pled guilty and was sentenced to eight months in
residential drug treatment and five years probation, according
to court records.
Since then, he has made court appearances during which his
behavior was erratic, crying through one and threatening the
judge during another.
On Tuesday, Robbins told a judge that his behavior was caused by
paranoid schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder, Daly said.
Prosecutors agreed to seek a sentence of four years and eight
months when Robbins is sentenced in December.
Robbins was nine years old in 1965 when he became the voice of
the world-weary yet optimistic title character of "A Charlie
Brown Christmas," the first of many animated TV specials based
on the popular "Peanuts" comic strip by Charles Schulz.
He voiced Charlie Brown in "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie
Brown," "A Boy Named Charlie Brown," and other "Peanuts"
animated specials that aired in the 1960s.
(Reporting by Marty Graham in San Diego; Editing by Curtis
Skinner)
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