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Bollea California Dreaming?

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By STEPHEN THOMPSON | The Tampa Tribune

Published: December 30, 2008

Nick Bollea wants to move to California, according to a spokeswoman with the Florida Department of Corrections.

Bollea's attorneys are asking the corrections agency to let him serve the rest of his probation in California, said DOC spokeswoman Jo Ellyn Rackleff. The request is in the form of an application for what is called an interstate compact agreement, which allows people on probation to move to a state different from the one in which they were convicted.

The 18-year-old was released in October from the Pinellas County Jail, where he served 166 days of an eight-month sentence handed down after pleading no contest to a charge of reckless driving involving serious bodily injury.

On Aug. 26, 2007, Bollea was involved in a car crash that left his sole passenger, Iraq war veteran John Graziano, with permanent brain damage. A civil suit has been filed by Graziano's guardian against Bollea and his mother, Linda Bollea, and his father, Hulk Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea.

In addition to the eight-month jail sentence, Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge ordered Bollea to serve five years of probation and perform 500 hours of community service. Bollea was also ordered to attend DUI school, which he has already completed, Rackleff said.

He has also passed all his drug tests since his release from jail, Rackleff said.

Probation officers in California have already checked out the home of Bollea's grandparents, where he would live, Rackleff said. She did not have the town or city where the grandparents reside. Bollea plans to attend school in California in early spring, she said.

His application, however, has not been accepted as of yet, she said.

"Until we have official notification [that the application has been accepted], he's still under supervision" in Clearwater, she said.

Bollea already received permission to travel to California this past October, and he was allowed to travel with his father to Miami in November, Rackleff said. Bollea was also allowed to travel with his father to Salt Lake City earlier this month.

Reporter Stephen Thompson can be reached at (727) 451-2336 or spthompson@tampatrib.com.

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