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Marcus Forrest-Cooper and Mitchell Asa beat a Northeast Portland resident over a towed car.

(Multnomah County Sheriff's Office)

Marcus Forrest-Cooper was so infuriated upon learning that a Northeast Portland resident had his BMW towed that he pushed, slapped and punched the man.

The resident had

after Forrest-Cooper parked it in front of the resident's driveway on Aug. 29 during the Last Thursday street festival in the Alberta Arts District. Upon learning what the resident had done, Forrest-Cooper pushed his way into the man's home and pummeled him.

Monday, Forrest-Cooper's fury cost him a 20-day jail sentence and a felony record. The 24-year-old college student pleaded no contest to first-degree burglary, in exchange for the dismissal of third-degree assault and second-degree criminal mischief charges.

In approving the plea deal, Multnomah County Circuit Judge Jerry Hodson also sentenced Forrest-Cooper to five years of probation, 64 hours of community service and to have no contact with the victim.

The sentence was identical to that received by Mitchell Asa, 21, who pleaded guilty to first-degree burglary and was sentenced earlier this month. Asa was with Forrest-Cooper at about 9:30 p.m. that night. The pair returned to the driveway in the

to find the BMW gone.

Forrest-Cooper asked the resident -- Dirk Tarman Jr., 37 -- what had happened to his car. The resident told him he'd called police, who'd had the car towed. Forrest-Cooper began yelling at Tarman, investigators say, then broke a gate on Tarman's front porch and pushed his way inside.

Forrest-Cooper beat Tarman and was soon joined in by Asa, who punched Tarman in the face about five times, investigators say.

Portland police say Tarman fought back by clobbering Forrest-Cooper with a cordless drill.

Tarman told officers that he'd noticed a parked BMW blocking his driveway a week earlier and had put a note on the car asking the driver not to park there any more. When it happened again, he took more drastic action.

Although Tarman wasn't at Monday's sentencing hearing, Forrest-Cooper apologized.

Deputy District Attorney Jeff Rhoades said Forrest-Cooper and Asa had no previous criminal history, and that factored into the willingness of the prosecutor's office to make the deal. Oregon sentencing guidelines recommend about three years of prison, and Rhoades said if the pair don't abide by the terms of their probation they face being sent to prison for that amount of time.

The judge also ordered Forrest-Cooper to pay $825 in restitution, and Asa had been ordered to pay $440 in restitution.

-- Aimee Green