YouTube Personality Pleads Guilty To Vandalism Charge After Claiming To Be Victim Of Attack

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — A YouTube personality and LGBT activist pleaded guilty Monday to a felony vandalism charge after he claimed to be the victim of an attack outside a West Hollywood nightclub.

Calum McSwiggan, 26, was sentenced Monday to three years probation and ordered to complete 52 anger management classes and pay $7,000 in restitution, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.

McSwiggan was arrested in June after deputies observed him vandalizing a car in the 8900 block of Santa Monica Boulevard, according to the Sheriff's Department.

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McSwiggan claimed to have been attacked by the owner of the car, but responding deputies "were unable to substantiate the assault" and found McSwiggan had "no visible injuries," the sheriff's department said.

Following his arrest, McSwiggan was booked and placed into a cell by himself at the LASD West Hollywood Station.

Deputies say he was observed injuring himself with the handle and receiver of a pay phone located inside the cell.

McSwiggan admitted he had injured himself with the phone in a June Facebook post.

"In a moment of desperation to get out of the cell, I took the pay phone off the wall and hit myself once across the forehead with it as hard as I could," he said in the post. "I knew I had to injure myself to get out of the cell and into a hospital, and it was the only solution I could find to get myself out of there. This is incredibly out of character for me and is testament to how upset I was in that moment. I do not regret doing this as I could still be in the jail cell if I didn't."

McSwiggan faced a misdemeanor charge alleging that he filed a false report about being attacked. McSwiggan pleaded not guilty to that charge in September, and the charge was dismissed Monday, the District Attorney's Office said.

McSwiggan said on Twitter Tuesday that he "never lied" about being attacked.