Peter Robbins—Voice of Charlie Brown—to Appear in Court in April

An April 18 preliminary hearing date has been scheduled for Peter Robbins, the voice of Charlie Brown in several Peanuts films and television specials, it was announced Tuesday.

Robbins, an Oceanside resident, is charged with threatening his girlfriend and the doctor who performed her breast enhancement surgery.

Robbins faces up to nine years in prison if convicted of two counts of stalking and 10 counts of making criminal threats, said Deputy District Attorney Elizabeth McClutchey.

Robbins, 56, was taken into custody the night of Jan. 20 while coming back into the United States from Mexico after he was named in an arrest warrant.

Robbins was 9 years old when he began doing the voice of Charlie Brown for such films and television specials as A Boy Named Charlie Brown, A Charlie Brown Christmas, and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.