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Actor to Be Tried for Alleged Hit-and-Run

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From Times Staff Reports

Movie actor C. Thomas Howell goes on trial today on five misdemeanor counts, including hit-and-run, brandishing a weapon and making a threat, for a run-in with a skateboarder last December in Reseda.

City prosecutors say Howell, 34, of Newhall, struck a 20-year-old skateboarder with his Ford pickup truck Dec. 9, then fled the scene and returned with a hammer and threatened to hit him.

The skateboarder, Shawn C. Burgess, received minor injuries, said Deputy City Atty. Brian Michaels.

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If convicted, Howell could face more than four years in jail.

Among other roles, Howell played Pony Boy Curtis in “The Outsiders.”

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