Charlie Brown actor pleads guilty to making criminal threat

NBC 7’s Vanessa Herrera reports.

The actor who once gave voice to beloved cartoon character Charlie Brown pled guilty on Tuesday to making threats against a mobile home park manager and a Southern California sheriff, prosecutors said. “To stick me three years into a state prison is not benefitting the justice system”. “I’m mentally ill. I feel I’m entitled to at least a second chance”.

Peter Robbins, 59, faces four years and eight months in prison when sentenced December 7.

Robbins was 9 years old when he began doing vocal performances for such films and television specials as “A Boy Named Charlie Brown”, “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”.

In a 2010 interview with the Tribune, Robbins showed off his Charlie Brown and Snoopy tattoo and said he was replaced with younger actors by the time he turned 16.

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.

Via twitter site This isn’tthe 1st time in that Robbins has had a run-in with the law, nevertheless. If found guilty at trial, Robbins would be looking at nine years behind bars, according to Daly.

“I want justice to be served”, Robbins told the judge. He used to be the voice of Charlie Brown in “Peanuts” series. “You behave as if you are on drugs”.

Robbins appeared relatively subdued in the courtroom as a retired judge from Los Angeles went over the terms of his plea agreement. “He’s just realized that his behavior in the past is really what put him in this position today”.

Robbins entered the plea yesterday Authorities say he threatened a man and offered 50 thousand dollars to have a County Sheriff killed.