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Graffiti sprayed by various artists and vandals is seen.
McKee's graffiti stretches from Marina to Salinas to Monterey, according to police.
Police said 18-year-old Q****** M****, of Marina, was caught in the act of spray-painting an abandoned building at Fort Ord.
M****'s graffiti stretches from Marina to Salinas to Monterey, according to police.
They believe several incidents of graffiti are McKee's work because they all contain the same style and tagger name, Q-loc. None of the colorful Q-l...
A prolific, yet apparently nameless, graffiti artist behind one of the few tags we actually kind of liked was busted doing his bestBanksy-esque work recently. According tothe folks at Uptown Almanac, the artist (or tagger, if you prefer) has been "terrorizing" a couple blocks around 19th and Guerrero for the past few months before a neighbor with a camera spotted him practicing his craft in broad daylight at a construction site near Dolores Park.
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, March 27, 2012,
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Serial vandal avoids jail
A serial graffiti vandal was told to "bring your toothbrush" if he ended up in court again after claiming he was too drunk to recall scratching the word "brazen" on to the window of a Mandurah-bound train this year.
B****** L** E*****, 25, was fined $1000 after pleading guilty to criminal damage in the Rockingham Magistrate's Court yesterday. It was the third time he had been charged for tagging public property in less than two years.
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, March 27, 2012,
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Updated: Thu Mar. 22 2012 16:51:22
Julia Parrish, ctvedmonton.ca
Edmonton police have laid dozens of graffiti-related charges against a 20-year-old man, for alleged graffiti offences in the area of 118 Avenue in north-east Edmonton.
Police have charged Jorden Hall-Coutu, 20 with 28 counts of mischief under $5000.
The charges come days after the City of Edmonton announced an audit of its ‘Record, Report, and Remove' program had found graffiti vandalism was down 43 per cent in one year.
Posted by Tag One on Monday, March 12, 2012,
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A GRAFFITI-tagger caused more than $50,000 in damage to public property during a relentless 44-month campaign of vandalism in which he sprayed painted anything that caught his eye - including a dog.
C******* was jailed for 18-months after today pleading guilty to 339 offences of graffiti, 11 of wilful damage and one of cruelty to an animal.The court was told C*******, then aged between 20 and 23, spray painted his tag "PAWN'' on numerous trains and property belonging to Queensland Rail and the...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, March 6, 2012,
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The Soak tag on Oxford Ice Rink, one of the cases where charges against Silver were dropped
IT was the graffiti tag that caused more than £20,000 of damage across Oxford and sparked numerous police appeals.
But Charlie Silver, the only man charged with daubing the tag ‘Soak’ across buildings in the city, walked out of court yesterday with a £100 fine after the majority of charges were dropped.
Silver, 20, admitted one count causing criminal damage to a shop’s shutters, while three more s...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, February 20, 2012,
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Two alleged graffiti artists, whose tags — "Vomet" and "Beav" — are well-known in Little Five Points, Inman Park and Poncey-Highland, among other neighborhoods, are going to court on vandalism charges.
C********** E*** S****, 29, of northeast Atlanta, who goes by the tag "Vomet," faces several counts of violating the city ordinance on graffiti abatement.
Nineteen-year-old D****** G******* J**** of northeast Atlanta, also known as "Beav," faces is facing multiple counts of violating the city...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, February 20, 2012,
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CORPUS CHRISTI (Kiii News) -
Police officers on the hunt for drugs may have busted up the city's largest graffiti rings. The drug warrant went down around 10:00 PM Thursday night at a home on Carlton Street, which is near Horne and Ayers.
There, officers found three guns, one of which was stolen, about two pounds of pot, packed for sale, along with five grams of cocaine and seven grams of meth.
Also seized, a number of graffiti instruments, graffiti documents and other graffiti paraphernalia.
Posted by Tag One on Monday, February 20, 2012,
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Published on Monday 6 February 2012 13:33
Two West Yorkshire graffiti vandals who blighted the rail network with graffiti for 18 months and caused over £30,000 in damages are to be sentenced tomorrow.
D**** A*** B********, 20, of Brook Street, Brighouse, and an 18-year-old from Bradford, admitted a total of 45 criminal damage charges relating to graffiti on trains and the rail network from Bradford to Huddersfield.
At a previous hearing, Judge John Potter told Broadbent to prepare himself for a...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, January 26, 2012,
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By Deanese Williams-HarrisTribune reporter
2:38 p.m. CST, January 24, 2012
A 19-year-old man was ordered held on $750,000 bond this afternoon in connection with the fatal stabbing of a Logan Square graffiti artist, prosecutors said.
K*********** K******, 19, of the 2000 block of South Western Avenue, was charged with first-degree murder in the Saturday night stabbing death of Linear Caballero, officials said.
Prosecutors said K****** was walking near his home at the intersection of Western and Ar...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, January 26, 2012,
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MURFREESBORO, Tenn.- Three young men were arrested and charged with vandalism and evading arrest after they spray painted Riverdale High School and fled from police Sunday morning.
Police were called out to Riverdale High School Sunday after reports of three teenagers heading towards Riverdale High School with cans of spray paint. When officers arrived at the school they found 18-year-old N******* C**** sitting in car in front of the school. C**** told the officer that his friends, 19-year-ol...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, January 23, 2012,
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AMARILLO, TEXAS -- Two men were arrested Wednesday evening for allegedly vandalizing an apartment building by painting graffiti.
Amarillo Police arrested 25-year-old W****** G****** M*** and 22-year-old Keith Henry Suttles on charges of evading arrest and graffiti over $500.
The original call came in about 5:46 p.m. Wednesday to the 2200 block of South Polk. Upon arrival, officers said they saw two men on the roof. The men ran into an alley but were caught.
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, January 12, 2012,
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“Hello, My Name is” busted.
Waukegan police ran into a man acting suspicious near a fire hydrant around Jackson Street and Grand Avenue on Tuesday and found he had placed a sticker on the hydrant.
New graffiti users wield stickers and felt-tipped pens to deface property.
J**** A*******, 23, of the 1700 block of Runyard Place was found to have a backpack full of stickers and large felt-tipped markers.
All stickers were similar to those which state “Hello My Name is...” and were filled in w...
A TEENAGE graffiti vandal is unrepentant after he admitted causing more than £200,000 damage to trains at Colchester’s railway depot.
M*** R****, 17, of St John’s Green, Colchester, was sentenced to 150 hours of unpaid work and will be under supervision for the next 12 months, including a three-month curfew, after he admitted breaching an Asbo.
He was also given a 12-month rehabilitation order.
R**** said there was no punishment that would make him stop doin...
For two years, the prolific HYSU graffiti crew spray-painted its way around the South Bay, leaving its acronym, which stands for "Have You Seen Us?"
This week, San Jose police emphatically answered that yes, they had.
Employing their own nickname for the five-month operation, "FNF" -- for the graffiti penal code 594 -- police arrested four tagging suspects. Investigators say the four, including the apparent leader, nicknamed "Romanse," make up the heart of the brazen taggers' gang.
Posted by Tag One on Friday, December 16, 2011,
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An international graffiti artist wanted on charges that he spray-painting Red Line trains in Cambridge was arrested in New Jersey trying to leave the country and is now back in Massachusetts facing a felony charge.
M***** B****, 25, of Paris, was arraigned in Cambridge District Court yesterday and is being held on $10,000 cash bail after pleading not guilty to a charge of vandalizing property on the MBTA, said Cara O’Brien, a spokeswoman for the Middlesex district attorney.
Posted by Tag One on Monday, December 12, 2011,
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By CHRISTINA CARREGA and LEONARD GREENE
An ex-cop standing trial on charges that he had revived his youthful graffiti-vandal compulsion was walking with a limp and appeared to be incapable of the dexterity required for the avocation, the arresting officer testified yesterday.
S****** W******* admits that he once was the infamous “Neo” who, during the height of the city’s 1980s graffiti scourge, “bombed” trains and trestles with his bubble-lettered signature.
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A “notorious” graffiti vandal — among the “dirty dozen” most wanted criminals highlighted in a front-page Herald article last year — is behind bars after being nabbed on charges that he defaced more than 30 subway and commuter rail cars, authorities said.
J*** B*****, 33, was ordered held on $80,000 cash bail at his Dorchester District Court arraignment yesterday, a day after Transit Police escorted him from Chicago, where he was arrested last month after cops there observed him ph...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, November 20, 2011,
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Burbank police announce today that two young taggers they arrested on November 3 -- D**** D*****, 20, and an unnamed 16-year-old girl -- are possibly facing felony charges after they allegedly vandalized multiple pieces of property across the San Fernando Valley.
Investigators believe that D***** and the teen girl belong to a prolific tagging crew...
... that has also hit Burbank, North Hollywood, Sun Valley, Arleta, San Fernando and Toluca Lake, Officer Joshua Kendrick tells City News Servi...
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Two Yuma teenagers who are suspected of causing an estimated $3,500 in property damage have been arrested and booked into the Yuma County Juvenile Justice Center on graffiti-related charges.
Sgt. Clint Norred, a spokesman for the Yuma Police Department, said the two teens, who are 14 and 15 years old, have been linked to numerous incidents of graffiti that began in October. They were both arrested on Monday.
“The police department’s approach to criminal acts such as these reinforces that yo...
A California woman arrested over the weekend for painting graffiti in downtown Frederick was convicted in 2010 on felony vandalism charges in connection with a well-publicized rash of graffiti incidents throughout San Francisco.
K******** B**** D*****, 25, of Thousand Oaks, Calif., was acquitted in October 2010 of felony hate crime charges -- the graffiti often included her nickname, "KKKatie," as well as backward swastikas and anarchist slogans, a...
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In the last two weeks, Newark detectives have arrested three people for causing $3,500 worth of damage by spray-painting graffiti throughout the city, police said.
Those arrested:
» B****** C. T*****, 19, of Myers Road in Robscott Manor, who was charged July 15 with three counts each of graffiti and possession of graffiti implements, and two counts each of trespassing and conspiracy.
T*****, who uses the tag "TUNE," has been linked to tagging incidents in Newark totaling $800 in damage in the...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, July 26, 2011,
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A prolific street artist known as “Evero” has pleaded guilty to two counts of graffiti vandalism, and his fellow criminal artists may be tagging neighborhoods with “Free Evero” signs for a little while longer. D***** E******* “Evero” W**** will serve six months in jail.
W****, 20, on Friday pleaded guilty to two counts of creating graffiti with damages under $20,000. He was sentenced to five years of deferred adjudication probation and three months in jail on each count.
You've no doubt noticed his signature, the word "Moustache" written in curly cursive letters with a felt-tip marker on the upper lips of people in subway platform billboards, but it might be a while before Moustache Man, aka 26-year-old J***** W****, draws his next 'stache. The Daily Newsreports that W**** was arrested a week ago in Midtown and admitted to having written one of his trademark tags on a billboard at the Third Avenue L tr...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, June 29, 2011,
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NEW YORK (AP) — Police say they have nabbed a man who wrote the word "Moustache" in black permanent market on hundreds of posters throughout the New York City subway system.
J***** W**** was arrested on charges including felony criminal mischief and possession of a graffiti instrument.
There was no phone listing for the 26-year-old man at a Manhattan address provided by police.
W**** is accused of drawing the word "Moustache" in flamboyant cursive on the upper-lips of people depicted on movie ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, June 6, 2011,
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The trio allegedly defaced a Stafford school last November but may have been involved in a larger crime spree involving Brisbane trains during the January floods.
Queensland Police Service was unable to advise what unique "tag" the trio sprayed on the public assets but said a tag helped them link a string of offences across Brisbane.
A joint effort by Brisbane City Council and the QPS's Taskforce Against Graffiti (TAG) was credited for the triple arrest.
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, May 15, 2011,
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GREENSBORO — Five people whom police say are responsible for hundreds of acts of graffiti vandalism in and around downtown have been arrested.
• J***** P E****, 22, was charged with 96 counts of vandalism (graffiti).These five people were charged:
• T***** D H****, 20, was charged with 36 counts of vandalism (graffiti).
• J***** M C****s, 18, was charged with 12 counts of vandalism (graffiti), possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, April 28, 2011,
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A**** O****, 44, was arrested three times in March for spray-painting "Laroc" -- his tag -- on walls and buildings in downtown Manhattan.
He was sent to the Rikers Island jail on the third occasion, and so missed his chance to attend to the opening this month of "Art in the Streets," an exhibition of graffiti and street art at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, which includes works by O****.
"I went out to walk my dog, I brought a can with me -- I shouldn't have done it, I knew soon...
This sounds familiar because almost the exact same thing happened a year and a half ago: Los Angeles-based street artist and graffiti writer Revok—whose work is all over New York City, as above—was arrested last week at LAX and, the L.A. Times reports, has been handed a 180-day jail sentence.
Like Space Invader last week (and Smear last month), Revok (real name J**** W*******) had been putting up new pieces around L.A. in connection ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, April 11, 2011,
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Two juveniles were arrested on March 15 and charged with criminal damage to property for graffiti incidents in River Forest and Forest Park. Both admitted to being part of a larger social circle of graffiti artists that targets public property in the two villages, Oak Park, and surrounding areas.
The West Suburban Gang and Drug Enforcement (WEDGE) task force launched a mission to track down individuals tagging public property on March 14, after a number of new graffiti "tags" were discovered o...
Posted by Tag One on Saturday, March 26, 2011,
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Councilmember Peter F. Vallone Jr. commends the 114th precinct for arresting three graffiti vandals wanted for over 50 tags in Astoria.
A***** M******, 21, and M**** A**********, 20, were caught while tagging a McDonald’s restaurant at 22-50 31st St., across the from Vallone’s office on March 5, at 8:30 p.m.
Although M******’s tag, DEC, remains on the storefront, Vallone has notified the 114th Civ Op to clean the establishment along with a list of other damaged property.
Posted by Tag One on Saturday, March 26, 2011,
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CORPUS CHRISTI (Kiii News) - Just one day after Corpus Christi police plead with citizens to not turn a blind eye to graffiti crimes and vandalism, there are results.
About 2 AM this morning, dispatchers got a call about some suspicious teens in the 16 hundred block of Trojan at Greenwood. Police caught up with the pair, two 16 year old boys. One they say was armed with a black paint pen and both were covered in black and silver ink. Police say a quick search of the area ...
Posted by Tag One on Saturday, March 26, 2011,
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A graffiti artist has found himself getting tagged - a 17-year-old has been arrested for allegedly spray painting several structures in and around Winnipeg.
Officers conducted a search warrant Tuesday at the south St. Vital home of the 17-year-old, who is facing six counts of mischief under $5,000.
The affected properties include businesses, traffic control boxes and the floodway overpass on St.Mary's Road since 2009, police said Wednesday.
It's the second time in recent months police have charg...
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members of the notorious group known as BDS or “Big Dog’s Crew” were
arrested on Wednesday, bringing an end to a 6 month investigation. The
group was named as one of the crews causing major damage to MTA
(Metropolitan Transportation Authority) property throughout Los Angeles
County in July 2010. The arrests were made in 9 different areas: East
Los Angeles, Hawthorne, Inglewood, Lawndale, Lennox, Los Angeles,
Palmdale, South Gate, and South Los Angeles, according t...
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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- On Friday, police made an arrest in connection with the defacing of an ATM at Dennys' among other places.
H***** P***** C**** was arrested and charged with 14 counts of misdemeanor graffiti and one count of felony graffiti.
The St. Augustine police department responded to a call at Denny's
restaurant and found an ATM machine there vandalized with graffiti and
the word "DURU."
"Prior to this incident there were 14 locations where vandalisms were
also reported, and t...
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TWO men have handed themselves in after images of wanted vandals were published in the Sunday Mail.
Police had been investigating the vandalism of the lift at the Glandore tram overpass in August and had published "Wanted Posters" of two men who had been recorded on CCTV etching graffiti into the lift.
The pair had caught sight of the camera, looked directly at it and began pulling faces.
Police said a Redwood Park man, 30, and an Aberfoyle Park man, 24, handed themselves in to police after seei...
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SANTA CRUZ -- Two teens were arrested Wednesday for their alleged involvement in a tagging crew that caused widespread damage to businesses, a church and even a deputy's patrol car throughout the county, the Sheriff's Office announced today.
A****** R. J*****, 18, of Santa Cruz, and an unidentified 17-year-old, were arrested on suspicion of felony vandalism and the younger teen was also arrested on suspicion of possessing marijuana for sale.
Deputies say the duo caused more than $15,000 in dama...
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With the arrests last week of two of the area’s most notorious graffiti vandals, the 104th Precinct has solidified its status as the paint-stained perp-walk capital of the city. As of this week, there have been 74 graffiti-related collars in 2011 in the Patrol Borough Queens North precinct composed of Ridgewood, Glendale, Maspeth and Middle Village — by far the most in the Big Apple. The 104th recorded 174 such arrests all of last year, still second only to the 122nd Precinct in S... Continue reading ...
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A 20-year-old is facing 59 mischief charges for spray painting large murals of graffiti on rail cars and bridges across Winnipeg, as well as in Brandon and Selkirk, causing more than $100,000 damage.
The man is alleged to have tagged 37 rail cars in the Transcona Yards alone.
"That's a moving canvas for a lot of these individuals," said Const. Jason Michalyshen, a Winnipeg police spokesman.
Other affected sites include a bridge structure on St. Mary's Road and rail cars on Sterling Lyon Parkway....
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Yuma police have arrested a suspected graffiti vandal accused of causing over $10,000 worth of damage.
J**** M****** B*******, 18, of Yuma, was arrested Wednesday and booked into the Yuma County jail on suspicion of criminal damage, burglary, criminal trespass and assisting a criminal street gang.
According to Officer Leanne Worthen, a spokeswoman for the Yuma Police Department, an investigation into B******* revealed that between June and December 2010, several offenses of criminal damage in t... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, December 23, 2010,
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San Bernardino police have arrested a 17-year-old boy on suspicion of causing more than $21,000 in graffiti damage in the city since July.
The boy, who was on probation for vandalism, was booked into San Bernardino Juvenile Hall. He is suspected in 18 vandalism incidents, police said this week.
The Police Department's graffiti task force began an investigation six months ago, tying the teen to window etching, spray painting and vandalism to a $3,000 awning. Damage is estimated at $21,188. Polic...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, December 23, 2010,
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The enigmatic graffiti artist known to many as simply “Walter” (see our coverage here) was arrested on Wednesday by Campus Police and charged with criminal mischief and possession of graffiti instruments (which to me means anyone with a sharpie).
Turns out “Walter” is 20 year old student J**** J** R****, according to University Police.
Here’s the UPD release:
During the spring and fall 2010 semesters, University Police had been receiving reports and witnessing the end result of countle...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, December 6, 2010,
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VISTA, Calif.—An adult and three juveniles have been arrested for allegedly causing $100,000 worth of graffiti vandalism in northern San Diego County.
Sheriff's Sgt. Joe Mata says Tuesday that the suspects were taken into custody in Vista during a a two-day sweep dubbed "You Spray, You Pay."
The sergeant told City News Service that 21-year-old Pedro Uribe has been booked for investigation of 143 felony vandalism counts with damage estimated at $62,000.
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 22, 2010,
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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...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 22, 2010,
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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...
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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 ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 22, 2010,
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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 ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 8, 2010,
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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...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, October 18, 2010,
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A graffitist accused of scrawling the tag "Pawn" has been
charged with 550 vandalism related-offences by the Taskforce Against
Graffiti.
The 24-year-old Everton Hills man is alleged to have
vandalised Brisbane City Council and Queensland Rail assets as well as
private property and is due to face Brisbane Magistrates Court on
October 28.
Of the alleged offences, 150 related to council property.
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Dave Gonzalez and three accomplices were charged with defacing the Bethesda Terrace, a Central Park landmark, in January 2009. (Wikimedia Commons)
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MANHATTAN SUPREME COURT — A young man who was literally caught "red handed" after allegedly defacing the picturesque Bethesda Terrace in Central Park pleaded guilty in Manhattan Supreme Court on Monday.
Dave Gonzalez, now 22, had red graffiti paint smeared on his hands when he and three accomplices were caught on the 72nd Street Cr...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, September 13, 2010,
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PHOENIX - He's called the worst graffiti
vandal in Phoenix, and he's finally been arrested, accused of tagging
more than 300 sites in Phoenix.
27-year-old J*** D****** has been
indicted on one count of criminal damage and one count of aggravated
criminal damage, for more than 300 graffiti sites over 20 months.
D******
was tracked and investigated using new technology that allowed
authorities to observe all the places he tagged, which provided clues
leading to his arrest.
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Trent Hills — Three male youths are facing charges in connection with several incidents of vandalism here.
OPP
Const. Chris Dewsbury said the teens face 20 counts each of mischief
under $5,000 after a number of buildings in Campbellford were spray
painted with graffiti.
The charges are the result of an ongoing
investigation into incidents of vandalism in the Campbellford area.
Dewsbury said the graffiti was sprayed over a period of time at
different locations all over Ca...
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FRANKLIN, Tenn. – A suspected vandal has been caught in the act with the tools used to paint graffiti on several signs and poles in Franklin.
Police said an alert sergeant patrolling
downtown Franklin in an unmarked car spotted 28-year-old J**** S******
in the alley at Main and Fourth around 4:30 a.m. Friday.
S****** had several cans of spray paint in
his possession and the cardboard stencil police said he used to
vandalize more than a half dozen signs and poles, as well as a
...
APTOS
- Sheriff's investigators arrested an Aptos man Wednesday on suspicion
of committing 160 acts of graffiti during the past 18 months.
Sgt. Robin Mitchell, who directed the vandalism probe, said A******
H. "Pancho" R******, 19, is affiliated with two other men arrested four
months ago in connection with hundreds of graffiti incidents. Ramirez
remained in County Jail on Wednesday c...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, August 11, 2010,
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POCATELLO — The police may have collared their bandit.
The suspected graffiti vandal, dubbed the “BZR Bandit” for
“tagging” a prolific number of buildings in town, often in
seemingly acrobatic feats to leave his “BZR” signature at prominent
heights, has been identified.
R*** P. H*****, 19, Pocatello, has been issued a summons to
appear on two misdemeanor counts of malicious injury to
property.
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CRANSTON, R.I. -- An abandoned backpack, a strong odor of spray-paint
vapor and a rustling in the woods led police to a suspect hiding in
bushes with white spray paint on his hands.
The man, D**** S******, 20, was charged with vandalism and is being
investigated for graffiti at 15 other locations in the city, Police
Major Robert W. Ryan said Friday.
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A graffiti artist has been told to pay £4000 to a council -
after walking into a police station with spray paint and photos of the
"art" he had done.
Daniel Carlin had sprayed his "tag" on several road signs on the A9 near
Gleneagles before walking into the local police station to report his
friends missing.
Officers had already heard about the graffiti and decided to search
Carlin. They discovered a number of aerosol paint cans and a phone
featuring photos of his work...
Common Pleas Judge Frank Palumbo ate a little crow for
breakfast yesterday.
During a morning court session, Palumbo ordered two former
Philadelphia police officers - Sheldon Fitzgerald and Howard Hill III -
to stand trial on criminal charges for their alleged beating of a
graffiti vandal.
This was an about-face for Palumbo, who last ye...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, June 1, 2010,
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A number of arrests for graffiti have recently been made by a
special anti-vandalism unit in the 49th Precinct. Vandalism is bad
enough, but what might be especially disturbing to some is that the
young people arrested already have lengthy rap sheets for graffiti and
are vandalizing property close to their own homes.
The transit
vandal squad made arrests of two young men in an area that police
officers recently volunteered to help clean of graffiti. The brazenness
and long rap sheets is... Continue reading ...
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PHOENIX - Phoenix Police have arrested a 19-year-old man who they say
is responsible for a series of graffiti vandalism in the Maryvale
neighborhood.
R***** H********, 19, was arrested for criminal
damage/graffiti after a lengthy investigation. The locations that were
hit were: 4407 N 44th Avenue, 3839 N. 35th Avenue, 4035 N. 83rd Avenue,
and 2211 N. Black Canyon Freeway.
Investigators say the suspect
is part of a tagging crew who uses the moniker NEAR. H******** allegedly
would break-...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, April 11, 2010,
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Twenty-five tagging suspects have been arrested as of March 31 this
year, an increase of 18 arrests over the same period in 2009. The
suspects are believed to be responsible for about $20,000 in damage to
personal and city property.
Simi Valley Police Department’s increased enforcement targeting graffiti
vandals has included a probation and parole sweep conducted with the
assistance of state parole agents. During the sweep, two repeat
offenders were arrested for violating their pro...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, April 5, 2010,
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Four suspects have been arrested in a graffiti spree at
Seccombe Lake Park in San Bernardino.
Members of the San Bernardino Police Department's graffiti task force
were staking out a store in downtown San Bernardino that police say
caters to the graffiti culture. They saw the four suspects, all
teenagers, leave the store with a bag of merchandise.
Police followed the teens, who went directly to Seccombe Lake Park at
Fifth Street and Sierra Way. Police say they opened the b...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, March 22, 2010,
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A group of five Bowling Green residents allegedly linked to a string of graffiti vandalism will face charges.
A*******
M*****, 19, M******* C*****, 18, M*****l R*******, 22, B********
K******, 18, and T****** H******, 18, face a total of 28 misdemeanor
counts of criminal mischief and two counts of criminal trespassing,
also misdemeanors.
The Warren County Attorney’s Office plans to issue criminal summonses to the five people.
The
citations follow an investigation by the Bowling Green Police
De... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, March 22, 2010,
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KING CITY, Calif. -- Two people were arrested in King City late Monday in connection with graffiti vandalism that was done to four businesses.A*** C******, 18, and a 17-year-old were arrested on charges of felony vandalism and possession of graffiti tools.Police
said officers were first called to the area of First and Bassett
streets at 11:10 p.m. after a report that someone was spraying graffiti
in the area. Three businesses were damaged with graffiti in the area.Just minutes later, a witnes... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Friday, March 12, 2010,
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PROVO — Provo police closed the file on 31 graffiti cases after a
traffic stop led to the arrest of a prolific street sketcher, they said.
An officer who had stopped a car for a
traffic violation Feb. 19 found the driver dressed all in black and
extremely nervous, according to a news release. The officer noticed
several...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, March 1, 2010,
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CLIFTON – Alleged graffiti artist D***** B******** was arraigned in the
city municipal court Friday morning on 18 charges of criminal mischief.
B******** replied with simple "yes" when asked if he understood the
charges by Judge Scott Bennon.
He was charged with spray painting the tag NARK on walls, buildings
and highway barriers, Bennon stated. B******** allegedly painted the
graffiti from July 2007 to December 2009, totaling about $25,500 in
damage.
... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, March 1, 2010,
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Friday, 26 Feb 2010 05:14am
A man has been charged with 16 offences relating to the graffiti and malicious damage of 14 RailCorp trains.
The 38-year-old Croydon Park man was arrested and charged yesterday
afternoon (Thursday 25 February) following a five-month investigation
by the Rail Vandalism Task Force.
It is alleged the man caused more than $10,000 damage to 14 trains and various RailCorp property over the past 10 years.
He has been charged with 15 offences of malicious damage an...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, February 22, 2010,
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SANTA CLARITA - Sheriff's
officials announced Wednesday the arrests of four teenage boys
collectively believed responsible for causing more than $150,000 in
tagging or graffiti vandalism damage in the Newhall area in just under
a year.
One of the teens, a 15-year-old Newhall boy, is suspected
of being involved in 240 such incidents, with damage estimated at more
than $100,000, according to a statement released by the Santa Clarita
Valley sheriff's station.
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, February 16, 2010,
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Vandalism - The spray-painted bedroom walls of a 16-year-old boy
match up with a rash of graffiti plastered throughout several southside
neighbourhoods, police say.
The teen has been charged with more
than 25 graffiti-related offences in Queensland, Deer Run and Canyon
Meadows. The neighbourhoods have been heavily hit with spray painting
and tagging since October, police said Thursday.
Last week,
police searching the teen's Deer Run home found 23 cans of spray paint,
50 pens, numerous sketchboo...
Buffalo police say an over inflated ego helped them catch a suspected serial graffiti vandal.
Just
last night alone, this appeared on a building at Pearl and Allen
Street.The same purple was used on the side of this brick building
around the corner on Elmwood. Then, minutes after a witness saw someone
painting this on a city control box at Main and High, police arrested
23-year-old Jacob Wiles with six cans of spray paint.
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, February 3, 2010,
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Prosecutors charged a man Thursday who is suspected of causing nearly $8,000 in graffiti damage to the San Antonio Dam.
M****** K*****, 24, was charged with one count of felony
vandalism in Fontana Superior Court after he was witnessed spray
painting graffiti in the waterway area of the dam on Tuesday in San
Antonio Heights, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's
Department.
Deputies found K***** in possession of numerous cans of spray
paint and a gallon of red household paint, she...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, February 3, 2010,
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Thursday 28 January, 2010
Police officers from the Upper Valley Neighbourhood Policing Team
joined forces with their British Transport Police colleagues to arrest
a local man on suspicion of being the ‘Hoax’ graffiti vandal.
In August 2009 Mytholmroyd train station was covered in graffiti bearing the name ‘Hoax.’
Further damage was caused to the Calder Holmes Park in Hebden Bridge with the same ‘tag’ used.
A joint investigation was launched by PC Ryan Stockton of the Upper
... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, January 26, 2010,
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On Jan. 13, officers of the Delta Police Department charged a
juvenile female in connection with the graffiti problem Delta is
currently facing. The investigation is ongoing and the department is
following up on new leads for additional suspects.
Department spokesperson Jamie Head says the Delta Police Department
considers this type of vandalism a serious community problem and is
working diligently to correct it.
Posted by Tag One on Monday, January 18, 2010,
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Police say the 28-year-old man has evaded officers for more than three years.
The police's V****** Mdunge says the suspect was wanted for hundreds of
counts of malicious damage to property cases, linked to graffiti in the
Durban area.
He says the suspect has been released on warning, but will appear in a Durban court tomorrow.
In 2008, eThekwini Manager Michael Sutcliffe declared war on illegal
graffiti. He appealed to parents not to shelter youngsters known to be
defacing the city, saying th... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, January 7, 2010,
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CORPUS CHRISTI —
Police believe twin brothers arrested Monday related to graffiti at
South Bluff Park are part of a crew of vandals to blame for other
neighborhood destruction.
An officer responding to a disturbance call about 5:40 a.m. spotted
three teens walking in the 1100 block Mary Street. One had paint
splatter on his shoes and a permanent marker in his pocket.
Another had paint on his hands, a spray-paint can in his pocket and
five more cans in his backpack. The pink and orange pai...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, January 3, 2010,
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A Dade County couple has been charged with spray painting graffiti along a stretch in Wildwood, including a church.
Authorities said the husband is on active duty with the U.S. Army and was home on leave.
Dade County authorities early Wednesday began receiving multiple
reports of vandalism in the Back Valley Road area. There had been
numerous things that had been spray painted, including street signs,
mailboxes, residences, stacked stone work, and a church.
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, January 3, 2010,
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Same location, same offence, same suspect, different day.
It was déjà vu for London police Christmas Eve when they arrested
the same suspect at the same location for the same offence - spraying
graffiti on a Richmond St. bank.
Police said officers on patrol spotted a man on the roof of the
Scotiabank, 750 Richmond St., just before midnight Wednesday spraying
graffiti.
Damage was estimated at $500.
The suspect, police said, used a ladder to get to the roof and had nine cans of spray ...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, January 3, 2010,
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AN END to a graffiti artist’s damage was spelled by persistent inquiries by a neighbourhood policeman. The 15-year-old had even taunted the authorities by writing "Catch me, if you can..."
PC Martin Rogers, of the Ryde Town Safer Neighbourhoods team,
investigated numerous reports of graffiti in the area during October
and November.
The youth — who cannot be named for legal reasons — was arrested and charged with criminal damage.
He appeared before the youth court, where he was made th...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, January 3, 2010,
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The two were arrested Tuesday after they were found spraying graffiti
on a railroad bridge. The 18 year old is considered an adult. He was
identified as Pablo Jimenez of Seeley. The 17 year old, a juvenile, was
identified only as a Heber resident. Both were booked into County Jail.
Jimenez was charged with vandalism and contributing to the delinquency
of a minor. The 17 year old was charged with vandalism, possessing a
knife and giving authorities a false name. Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, December 20, 2009,
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Yesterday, subway graffiti artist Poster Boy
pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal mischief and got handed a
sentence of 210 hours of community service -- a punishment that seems a
little extreme.
Poster Boy, also known by his significantly less cool real name H**** M*********, admitted he was the masked bandit in a YouTube video
making deviant art by vandalizing subway advertisements, and now he's
got a whoooooole lot of garbage to pick up from roadways. We're not the
only ones who think... Continue reading ...
GRAFFITI
vandals from Feltham, Kingston and Twickenham who caused an estimated
£270,000 worth of damage to trains have been jailed for a total of six
years.
The gang of six men admitted daubing their 'tags' on
more than 125 trains and tube carriages over a two-year period from
February 2006 to November 2007.
They would mainly go out at
night, breaking into train depots across west London and further
afield, but as their crimes went unpunished ...
A
19-year-old man believed to be responsible for 150 incidents of
graffiti throughout Escondido is in custody Saturday, a police official
said.
Escondido resident I***** G******* was arrested and booked into
the Vista Detention Facility on suspicion of six incidents of felony
vandalism and 146 cases of misdemeanor vandalism, said Escondido police
Lt. Bob Benton.
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, November 24, 2009,
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Infamous
tagger, REVOK, was arrested over the weekend in Los Angeles during an
appearance at a the 33rd Graffiti Art Store, when authorities found him
in possession of spray tips.
According to the LA Times,
the 32-year-old graffiti legend (real name: Jason Williams) was the
guest of honor at the store's event on Sunday (November 22), where they
were exhibiting Montana spray pain...
Posted by Tag One on Friday, November 13, 2009,
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A Chico man has been arrested for allegedly vandalizing a passenger
train stopped at the local Amtrak station in October. Chico Police say
8 train cars were tagged with graffiti. Officers say they were able to
identify a suspect and search the man’s Arcadian Avenue home Tuesday.
22 year old C***** G******* was arrested on charges including felony
vandalism and possession of graffiti tools. Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, November 10, 2009,
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BHB photo by C. Scales
This in from Judy Stanton, Executive Director of the Brooklyn Heights Association:
The 84th Precinct captain just stopped by to tell me
that the graffiti taggers using Rex and Guder, whose tags were found on
public and private property all over the north Heights, have been
arrested. Credit goes to the arresting officer, Freddy Ahmetaj, and the
taggers, who were caught on camera, will be charged with multiple
counts of graffiti.
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, November 5, 2009,
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A STREET artist's graffiti damage has saddled him with an Asbo banning him from carrying spray paint in public for three years.
Three years ago Kane Andrews, right, and others filmed themselves carrying out wanton damage and obscene behaviour across the Bay before positing it on websites.
After
pleading guilty he was released on a two-year conditional discharge,
given a 12-month community service order, and ordered to complete 200
hours' unpaid work and ordered to pay ...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, November 5, 2009,
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A crook was captured after breaking into a car in Sheepshead Bay, authorities said Friday.
R****** G*****, 31, climbed inside a 1997 Nissan Maxima on Avenue R
near East 27th Street just before midnight Tuesday, sources said.
He soon exited, dropping two cellphone chargers and an MP3 player.
Members of the Flatbush Shomrim civilian patrol followed the suspect
and directed police to an intersection where Garcia and alleged getaway
driver José Hernandez, 37, were arrested.
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, November 5, 2009,
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Bee Staff
Four men who were arrested in May for allegedly causing $80,000 in
damage by painting graffiti on walls throughout Roseville and Sacramento are facing 90-day jail sentences after pleading no contest to vandalism, according to the Placer County District Attorney.
The four will also be subject to paying for the damages and doing community service when they return to Placer County Superior Court for sentencing on Dec. 2, according to prosecutor Tracy Lunardi of...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, September 21, 2009,
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By NICK BONHAM THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN
Writings on a couple of Downtown walls landed a group of out-of-town visitors in jail early Sunday.
At least six people were arrested on suspicion of contributing to the deliquency of a minor and criminal mischief.
Booked
into Pueblo County jail were Antonio Chavez, 22; Joseph Moses Jimenez,
19; Matthew Paul Medina, 22; Lorenzo Daniel Rivera, 22; and Raul
Rodriguez, 18, all of Colorado Springs.
Posted by Tag One on Monday, September 7, 2009,
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ONE hundred people have been arrested and thousands of charges laid during a nine-month police crackdown on graffiti vandals.
The
crackdown in Kingston council, in Melbourne’s south has also resulted
in $98,000 being paid to victims of graffiti through restitution claims
in court.
Insp Neil Paterson said the majority of offenders
arrested were teenage males who police then discovered were wanted for
other crimes including theft, assault and robbery.
Posted by Tag One on Monday, August 31, 2009,
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Last Update: 8/25 11:12 am
SAN DIEGO - Two young men and a teenager suspected of causing more than
$50,000 in damage with graffiti in North County are in custody on
felony charges.
R****
B***, 19, was booked into the Vista jail on suspicion of 13 felony
counts of vandalism, with damage totaling about $5,800; M***** R*****,
20, was booked into the same jail on suspicion of 27 felony counts,
with damages totaling about $13,000, sher...
Posted by Tag One on Friday, July 17, 2009,
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Reno police believe 19-year-old committed 91 acts of graffiti vandalism
Paint it black
Police made two arrests earlier this month for graffiti “artists” defacing property in Red Hook and Carroll Gardens.
On June 8, an officer nabbed a 22-year-old man who was allegedly
spray-painting a telephone poll on Coffey Street at 1:55 am. The vandal
had a can of black paint and a stencil book on the block between Ferris
and Conover streets, the officer said.
Cincinnati police say the actions of a graffiti artist weren't "2 Kool" over the weekend.
Police
say 19-year-old R*** E**** of Over-the-Rhine was seen using a red ink
pen to write "2 Kool" on a traffic box on the 200 block of Central
Parkway not far from his home.
Posted by TAGONE on Saturday, June 20, 2009,
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Juveniles arrested for 49th graffiti
by amanda marinaccio
Friday, June 19, 2009 10:13 AM EDT
As
residents continue to complain of graffiti affecting their quality of
life, the 49th Precinct is stepping up enforcement, producing two
arrests.
“This is a problem and we have officers out there
targeting locations and we are putting a lot of resources into graffiti
arrests,” said Captain John Greeley of the 49th Precinct. “Quality of
life issues are very important ... Continue reading ...
With graffiti on the rise throughout the South Bay, Gilroy
police hope the recent arrest of several teens who are suspected of
causing thousands of dollars in damages through tagging sends a message
to vandals and their parents.
One of the teens, a
17-year-old male, was charged with 120 counts of vandalism, ac...
SANTA CRUZ - A 21-year-old Aptos man has been arrested for being a serial tagger.
According to Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Sgt. Robin Mitchell, C***
C****** was arrested after a six-week investigation that identified him
as being a "prolific graffiti vandal."
Early this year, the sheriff's community policing team started to
document C******'s graffit...
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Infamous
tagger, REVOK, was arrested over the weekend in Los Angeles during an
appearance at a the 33rd Graffiti Art Store, when authorities found him
in possession of spray tips.
