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Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 22, 2010,
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News
The family of a 23-year-old graffiti artist found hanged last year in his cell at Camps Hill prison were preparing today for an inquest into his death, which begins on Monday. Tom Collister, from London, was found hanging in his cell on the morning of February 7 2009. He had been jailed for 30 months in October 2008 for criminal damage and graffiti. Mr Collister was initially remanded along with his co-defendants in local jail HMP Wandsworth, where he was visited regularly and supported by his ... Continue reading ...
Graffiti artist found mentally unfit to stand trial
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 22, 2010,
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News

Photo by Lincoln Anderson Slain graffiti artist Christopher Jusko, whose tag was “Upski,” “bombed” the F train stop at 14th St. and Sixth Ave., blanketing the fluorescent light fixtures by the platform’s edge with his “Upski” stickers. East Village graffiti artist J**** P********* was deemed unfit to stand trial last Wednesday on a charge of second-degree murder in the death of a fellow graffiti tagger after they argued over a woman last month. DNAinfo first reported that P********... Continue reading ...
Graffiti artist won't pay back a penny
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 22, 2010,
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Charged
A GRAFFITI vandal who caused damage totalling £10,000 to public and private property across Bristol will not have to pay back a penny. Magistrates also refused a request to impose an Anti-Social Behaviour Order on M****** J**** because they said it would not be effective in curbing his activities. The 19-year-old, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to six charges of criminal damage, which took place between May and June, and asked for 136 similar offences to be taken into consideration. He als... Continue reading ...
Milan police arrest two teenagers suspected in more than a dozen graffiti incidents
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 22, 2010,
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Busted
Milan police say they arrested two teenagers suspected in a recent spate of graffiti incidents around the city. Officers arrested the youths, both 16, last week after interviewing them about more than a dozen vandalism reports taken from late September through early this month, Chief Jeff Lewis said. The teens “tagged” 15 businesses, public structures and apartment complexes in or near downtown with the letters “NEXUS”, “NXS”, or “ZALE," Lewis said. They... Continue reading ...
Graffiti vandal left with severe burns after climbing on to rail tracks and urinating on transformer
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 22, 2010,
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World News
An Australian man learned the hard way not to urinate on a transformer when he was electrocuted and almost died. The unnamed man, a Gold Coast graffiti vandal, ended up with severe burns on almost half his body after he and three associates snuck into the Coomera railway power station.
At some point he received a potentially lethal shock of 22,000 volts that has left him hospitalised for the foreseeable future.  Despite signs reading 'Danger: High Voltage', the Australian man cut through fences a... Continue reading ...
"EMEK" charged with 241 counts of vandalism
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 22, 2010,
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Busted
ENCINITAS (CNS) - A 17-year-old Encinitas boy was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of committing hundreds of graffiti crimes. The suspect, a senior at La Costa Canyon High, was detained and interviewed by detectives before being released into the custody of school officials, sheriff's Sgt. Marcos Ramirez said. While searching the teen's home this morning, deputies seized evidence "positively identifying" the boy in a total of 241 cases of graffiti vandalism throughout Encinitas, according to Ramir... Continue reading ...
MALE ARRESTED FOR GRAFFITI VANDALISM
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 22, 2010,
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Busted
SAANICH POLICE HAVE ARRESTED A SUSPECTED PROLIFIC GRAFFITI VANDAL AFTER A DAYLIGHT INCIDENT AT A BRIDGE ON THE GALLOPING GOOSE TRAIL.
A YOUNG MAN WAS NOTICED BY A PATROL OFFICER BACK IN MID OCTOBER ACTING SUSPICIOUSLY ON INTERURBAN ROAD. A CHECK FOUND EVIDENCE OF SPRAY PAINT ON HIS HANDS. FURTHER CHECKING FOUND NEW GRAFFITI ON NEARBY PUBLIC PROPERTY.
SARGEANT DEAN JANTZEN SAYS THE INVESTIGATION IS STILL GOING DEEPER.
"As luck would have it this form of graffiti was found to be consisten... Continue reading ...
Graffiti artist was 'nice, outgoing guy'
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 22, 2010,
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RIP
At Dylan Ford's wake Tuesday, he was described as "always concerned about the welfare of others."Photograph by: John Mahoney, The GazetteFuneral services are to be held today in Notre Dame de Grâce for Dylan James Ford, one of three teenagers killed by a train Oct. 31, in the Turcot Yards. At sombre visitation services yesterday in Lachine, a black-and-white photo of Ford, wearing earphones and a T-shirt emblazoned with the word FUNK, sat next to a small wooden urn with a plaque bearing his ... Continue reading ...
Graffiti tagger who urinated on transformer gets shock of his life
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 22, 2010,
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News
A GRAFFITI vandal who cheated death while tagging a railway power substation caused thousands of dollars damage and shut down the Gold Coast train line for a day. But a potentially lethal shock of up to 22,000 volts has left the man, 22, with injuries so severe that police are in no rush to press charges. He remains at Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital with third-degree burns to 40 per cent of his body after a midnight mission to ``bomb'' Coomera station last month went catastrophically wrong... Continue reading ...
Writing's on the wall for new bridge: Cops nab alleged graffiti vandals
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 22, 2010,
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Busted
Some people just don't want Philly to have nice things. Just hours after the grand reopening of the South Street Bridge, vandals caught spray-painting graffiti underneath the Schuylkill Expressway told authorities that they intended to "tag" the brand-new overpass, according to state police. At 2:37 a.m. yesterday, authorities spotted three male suspects walking away from freshly painted graffiti on a 10-foot-tall brick tunnel wall underneath the highway leading to the South Street Bridge. The ... Continue reading ...
Secret underground art show thrills New York
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 8, 2010,
NEW YORK — It's the hottest, most talked about art show in New York -- and almost no one even knows where it is. With a huge space and 103 of the hippest contemporary artists participating, "The Underbelly Project" sounds like a powerhouse production at the Met or MoMA. But while the Big Apple may have seen most things in the art world, this is different. Illegally located somewhere deep underground in an abandoned station of the New York Subway system, "Underbelly" consists of graffiti art by... Continue reading ...
Alleged graffiti artist facing almost 50 charges
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 8, 2010,
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Charged
An 18-year-old man is facing almost 50 charges following a six-month graffiti investigation by Greater Sudbury Police Service's community response unit. The graffiti incidents were in the New Sudbury and Minnow Lake areas. The 18-year-old was arrested and was held in custody for an appearance in bail court on Monday. He is facing 48 counts of mischief under $5,000 and one count of mischief over $5,000. The accused is alleged to have spray painted Sudbury Hydro boxes and poles, City of Greater S... Continue reading ...
‘DIFER’ urges councils to leave his ‘tagging’ - Secretive Vancouver graffiti artist turns up to his Paddington gallery exhibition
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 8, 2010,
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News
Published: 05 November 2010 by JOSH LOEB A SECRETIVE “tagger” turned up at the launch of his exhibition at a Paddington Gallery in the style of guerilla artist Banksy. The artist, who comes from Vancouver, goes by the name “difer”. His work, which he describes as “tagging – don’t call it graffiti”, went on show this week at the Subway Gallery in a disused 1960s kiosk in an underpass under the Westway. difer defended the controversial art form, which involves scrawled words or sign... Continue reading ...
Graffiti artist Zebadiah Arrington, known as 'Zeb,' nabbed for emailing photos of his work
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 8, 2010,
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Busted
 Warga/News Arrington, 19, is suspected of tagging subway cars like the ones above, which were done by European vandals. Zebadiah Arrington, 19, was held on $10,000 bail at his arraignment in Queens Supreme Court on Thursday for allegedly scrawling his signature "Zeb" tag on seven A, F and 7 trains since 2007. The damage estimate was $7,600.A Chicago art student suspected of tagging subway cars up and down the East Coast was nabbed when he emailed photos of his handiwork to friends back home, pr... Continue reading ...
'Birth and death of a Banksy' – mysterious artwork covered up
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 8, 2010,
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Street Art
Thursday, 4 November 2010  JESUS URIARTE Graffiti on a street wall in San Sebastian attributed to the reclusive Banksy A work attributed to the British graffiti artist Banksy has caused a dispute in the elegant seaside city of San Sebastian – but not, as is often the case with his work, because the authorities were irked by the defaced wall. The problem this time was that other graffiti artists were so jealous of Banksy'... Continue reading ...
Visual Arts Center Embraces Spray Paint with Graffiti Class
Although Braulio Batista is proud to see his students' artwork on display at the Visual Arts Center, he also thinks it's kind of amusing. "It's actually the first time we've had a teen exhibit." Batista said. "And it's just funny to see that the first time that we have a teen exhibit it's graffiti." In an effort to show the lighter side of graffiti, the Visual Arts Center is currently exhibiting The Fine Art of Graffiti, which features the works of the young artists in Batista's class. The subj... Continue reading ...
Montreal graffiti writers mourn train deaths
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 8, 2010,
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RIP
Spot where teens died is a tagging 'hall of fame,' says graffiti artistLast Updated: Monday, November 1, 2010 | 2:57 PM ET Comments0Recommend0CBC NewsPolice haven't released the names of the three teens killed by a Via Rail passenger train on Sunday morning, but people in Montreal's graffiti community say they knew them and are mourning the deaths. A video paying tribute to one of the dead graffiti artists has been posted on YouTube. He went by the name Jays and the two-minute video shows some ... Continue reading ...
Graffiti Artist Doesn't Like MTA Chairman Walder
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 8, 2010,
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News
Not as much of a priority. (Flickr user ADivs)When a graffiti artist tags MTA property, it's generally cleaned or painted over in a somewhat timely matter. However, when a graffiti artist uses a sidewalk outside of a Dunkin' Donuts in Coney Island to diss MTA Chairman Jay Walder, it becomes a "priority job." The MTA has dispatched a crew to clean a spray-painted message reading, "LAYOFF WALDER! REHIRE WORKERS!" from two stretches of sidewalk on 86th Street, Avenue U and West 13th Street. NYC ... Continue reading ...
Travie McCoy Arrested For Spraying Graffiti On Berlin Wall
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 8, 2010,
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World News
Travie McCoy's neck looks like ran afoul of a graffiti artist, and apparently he tried to do the same thing to Berlin.
The Gym Class Heroes frontman was arrested after spraying graffiti on one of the last standing parts of the Berlin Wall on Wednesday.
Katy Perry's ex-boyfriend was in Berlin to play a show at the Magnet Club and tweeted that he was going to head to the Berlin Wall Wednesday night.
"I'm def gettin up on this before we leave tonight!!!" he wrote.
Later that evening, he tweeted a... Continue reading ...
Phoenix graffiti vandal "JUGZ" pleads guilty
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 8, 2010,
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Charged
- By: Victoria Pelham, ABC15.com
PHOENIX - A Phoenix man has pleaded guilty on charges connected to graffiti vandalism, the Maricopa County Superior Court said Thursday. J*** D******, 27, pleaded guilty to attempt to commit criminal damage and to criminal damage. The sentencing will be held November 30 before Judge Daniel Martin. D****** tagged using the name "Jug" or "Jugz" throughout the Phoenix area. The Maricopa County Attorney's Office said it considered Delgado to be the "worst graffiti vand... Continue reading ...
Tagging teens arrested in El Cajon
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 8, 2010,
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WANTED
BY DEBBI BAKER TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2010 AT 6:29 A.M. EL CAJON — Three teens suspected of vandalizing a business with graffiti were arrested Monday just hours after El Cajon announced a graffiti tip line. A resident spotted the boys spray painting behind the business at East Main and First streets about 8:15 p.m. and called police, who arrested the vandals without incident, police Lt. Tim Henton said. Some 4,000 graffiti incidents were reported to the city’s graffiti removal hotline in 2009, ... Continue reading ...
Vandals spray-paint cop cars in Woodstock
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 8, 2010,
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World News
Woodstock police are looking for the vandals who spray-painted graffiti on two police cars parked in a neighborhood off Ga. 92, along with several nearby businesses. Sometime between 6:15 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday, the vandals painted epithets on a Cobb County police Dodge Charger and a Roswell police Crown Victoria that were parked at the homes of officers on Weatherstone Drive, police. Woodstock police Sgt. Paul Brown said the vandals also targeted one of the officer's personal vehicle, a pick... Continue reading ...
Great Falls Police arrest two vandals
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 8, 2010,
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Busted
By Stephanie Tyrpak
Great Falls Police have arrested two men wanted for allegedly vandalizing nearly 30 downtown businesses with graffiti. 18-year-old T**** V***** and 21-year-old C********** R*****, both of Great Falls, were arrested downtown around 10 Saturday night. They have been charged with felony criminal mischief. Police believe V***** and R***** are responsible for the graffiti vandalism that has been taking place since mid-October. The graffiti is a green face w... Continue reading ...
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