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One of the two men who allegedly painted graffiti around the city in April 2012 has pleaded guilty and was sentenced Monday.
Zachary
Joseph Karels, 24, of Fergus Falls, pleaded guilty in Otter Tail County
District Court to one count of third degree damage to property, a gross
misdemeanor. District Judge Waldemar Senyk sentenced him to 180 days in
jail, with 170 days stayed for two years. He also must pay a $900 fine
and $297.90 in restitution.
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Image from video posted to YouTube that
captured a man spray-painting the 1929 Picasso, "Woman in a Red
Armchair," at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, on June 13, 2012.
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(CBS/AP) HOUSTON - A man accused of vandalizing a 1929 Pablo
Picasso painting - an act that was caught on cellphone video - must
remain jailed on $500,000 bond because he is a flight risk, a Houston
judge ruled Wednesday.
Uriel Landeros, 22, is charged with
graffiti and criminal mischief ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 12, 2012,
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BURBANK - A 53-year-old man
who works for a graffiti removal company under contract to the city of
Burbank is facing possible vandalism, burglary, and forgery charges
today for allegedly making work for himself.
His employer, Graffiti Protective Coatings Inc., is paid about
$100,000 per year to cover tagging-prone surfaces with a protective
coating that eases graffiti removal, according to Burb...
A Charlottesville man has been charged with four counts of destruction of property in relation to a string of repetitive graffiti taggings in the area stretching from West Rio Road to Barracks Road in early July.
Christopher James Benck, 23, so far faces three counts of destruction of property in Albemarle County and one count in Charlottesville. Police are asking anyone who suffered damage...
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The owner of an Edmonton arts supplies store and gallery where police seized dozens of pieces of graffiti art this week says the raid will likely discourage illegal artists from going legitimate.
Kim Fjordbotten, owner of The Paint Spot on Whyte Avenue, says six officers showed up at her business on June 14 shortly before an opening reception for an exhibit that included many pieces by an artist identified only as “DP.” The officers had a warrant that stated they were there to collect artw...
Two Atlanta graffiti artists arrested last year after the City of Atlanta’s controversial Graffiti Task Force kicked into full swing pleaded guilty to multiple counts earlier this week in municipal court.
Christopher “Vomet” Smith, 29, and Douglas “Beav” Jones, 19, both entered guilty pleas on four counts each related to their artistic discrepancies.
Both received six months probation, fines ranging between $300-$500 (plus court costs), and restitution of $3,550...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, May 30, 2012,
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Two alleged serial graffiti vandals are expected to appear in court June 6th.
D****** G******* J****, 19, and C********* E*** S****, 29 — are charged with multiple counts of violating the city ordinance on graffiti abatement and destruction of property.
J**** uses the tag "Beav," police say, while S**** uses the tag "Vomet."
J****' attorney, has accepted a negotiated plea deal, though specifics of that agreement have not yet been released. He is expected to be sentenced on June 6th.
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SEATTLE -- Two Seattle residents accused of vandalizing the Moore Theater and several other buildings prior to the May 1 protests are now facing felony charges.
King County prosecutors contend Kristin L. Sposito and Brian P. Greenwood painted anarchist slogans on downtown buildings weeks before May Day, when black-clad protestors smashed windows around downtown Seattle.
Writing the court, Deputy Prosecutor Benjamin Carr contended Sposito, 32, and Greenwood, 30, caused about $14,400 in damage du...
The Oakland City Attorney's Office has begun filing lawsuits seeking to recover damages from two people charged with spray painting city property during a January Occupy Oakland protest.
The city filed the lawsuits against C**** W*********, 25, and P*** W****, 25, this month seeking $400 to cover the cost of cleaning up city property, plus special and punitive...
PITTSFIELD -- A Pittsfield man charged with more than 200 counts of property vandalism for graffiti tagging was on Friday given two years of probation and ordered to pay close to $9,500 in restitution and perform 1,000 hours of community service following a Central Berk shire District Court appearance.
David M. Jones Jr., 31, of Cecelia Terrace, admitted leaving his graffiti tag on various str...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, April 4, 2012,
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A graffiti tag used in evidence.
A SENIOR Victorian magistrate has slammed four men from an organised graffiti ''subculture'' syndicate as ''vandals'' whose Melbourne-wide defacings were a ''blight on our society''.
Deputy Chief Magistrate Dan Muling yesterday jailed J**** B***, 39, who offended over an almost 10-year period and who has prior convictions from more than 20 years ago.
Mr Muling dismissed a non-custodial order against B***, who painted his ''tag'' on 100 t...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, March 12, 2012,
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The attorney for two alleged graffiti vandals had their trials pushed back several months, arguing city lawyers have blocked him from reviewing the evidence they have against his clients.
Arguing Wednesday afternoon before Chief Judge Crystal A. Gaines in Atlanta Municipal Court, Atlanta attorney Daniel Kane said city officials have stymied and stonewalled his efforts to see affidavits, witness statements and video images of graffiti tags.
Kane's clients — D****** G******* J****, 19, and C***...
If you asked anyone what would land Shepard Fairey in jail, they would probably point to his graffiti. But alas, it isn't so. The street artist, who gained popularity with his red, white and blue Obama "Hope" poster, has pleaded guilty to criminal contempt. ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, February 6, 2012,
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A Calgary teen faces more than 100 graffiti charges.
Photograph by: Stuart Franklin, Getty Images
CALGARY — A teenager who had previously been charged committing graffiti has again been busted by police and faces charges in 45 more cases.
The teen, who can’t be named because he was under 18 for some of the most recent taggings, faces over 100 charges for a graffiti spree between July, 2011 and January of this year.
He is now 18 years old.
“He has a history of graffiti vandalism from the pas...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, January 12, 2012,
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D***** T******, 26, a graffiti artist who caused £1million worth of damage across Bristol has been jailed for a year. He admitted to have sprayed the tag "Dotcom" (pictured) onto buildings, cars, signs and trains, and also pleaded guilty for assaulting a policeman, possessing cannabis, failing to surrender to court and breaching an Asbo.
Before having to face jail, D***** T*******, of Dove Street in Kingsdown, was considered a street art talent who already exhibited at galleries and was offer...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, December 27, 2011,
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A Santa Rosa man who used the moniker "SLICK1" when he vandalized his neighbors' vehicles was sentenced to six months in jail and three years' probation today in Sonoma County Superior Court.
V******* Mc*****, 23, also was ordered to pay nearly $19,000 restitution to the 22 victims of the tire-slashing spree in the Santa Rosa Junior College neighborhood in September and October.
Among the vandalism victims were Mc******'s father, the mother of his child, her parents and an ex-girlfriend, accord...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, December 12, 2011,
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A PROLIFIC graffiti vandal who was sentenced last year for causing damage totalling £10,000 across Bristol has struck again – this time leaving a clean-up bill of at least £3,800 in his wake.
M****** J****, 20, admitted he was responsible for 142 offences of criminal damage when he appeared before court in November last year.
Matthew Jones outside Bristol Magistrates Court
He was hauled before court again on Friday and admitted being behind a further 146 offences of graffiti tagging.
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, November 15, 2011,
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Police have discovered the identity of one of New York City’s most prolific graffiti vandals -- and he’s one of their own.
Steven W*******, 43, of Flushing, a patrolman who retired from the NYPD in 2001 after hurting his leg, is the notorious “Neo” -- one of the peskiest subway taggers of the 1980s.
And the spray-painting miscreant is making a comeback, cops say.
“He’s definitely prolific,” a source said.
Transit cops investigating graffiti in northeast Queens watched as Neo’s tag...
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August 9, 2011
Police have charged seven people in the wake of a graffiti spree that targeted unattended trains during the January floods and resulted in a $113,000 damage bill.
Aged in their late teens or early 20s, the accused face almost 800 counts of wilful damage by graffiti after a joint police and Brisbane City Council operation.
They are all set to face court by early November.
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One of the accused, a 21-year-old from Coorparoo faces 324 coun...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, August 3, 2011,
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First Posted: 7/29/11 03:29 PM ETUpdated: 7/29/11 03:29 PM ET
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It comes down to this: is graffiti art or vandalism? For 20 years, a single man with a spray can has forced Hamburg courts to weigh this very question. On Friday, a judge ruled it was in fact vandalism, sentencing the 61-year-old spray painter, who goes by the name "OZ," to 14 months in prison.
Referred by the courts as W****** F., the Hamburg resident has more than 120,000 graffiti to his name. These consist m...
MIDDLETOWN — After a year-long investigation, Middletown police have arrested a graffiti artist who has been plaguing the downtown area with spray paint.
Lt. Heather Desmond and Lt. Gary Wallace announced the suspect’s arrest at a press conference Monday. They said the suspect is now 18 but is being tried as a juvenile offender because he was 17 when he allegedly did the graffiti. Because of his juvenile status, police didn’t release his name or address, though they did s...
He sprayed graffiti on buses in Brixton, and rail property in Southfields as well as in Scotland between 2007 and last year. But H******, an unemployed stud...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, July 26, 2011,
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A teenager from Midsomer Norton who caused thousands of pounds worth of damage by spray painting his graffiti 'tag' on shops, homes and buildings across Bath and North East Somerset over a number of years has been caught.
The 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, faced magistrates at Bath's Youth Court who ordered him to carry out community service and see for himself just how difficult and costly it is to remove spray paint from Bath stone.
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PITTSFIELD -- A 30-year-old man has been charged with 199 counts of property vandalism for allegedly leaving his graffiti tag on a series of city structures spanning a 10-month period.
D**** M. J**** Jr. of Plunkett Street, Pittsfield, pleaded not guilty to the charges on Monday when he was arraigned in Central Berkshire District Court. He was released on personal recognizance, pending a pre-trial hearing on June 23.
According to court documents, the incidents took place in Pittsfield between M...
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Community Affairs Officer Barbara Stevens reported to Historic City News that over the course of the past two months, the St. Augustine Police Department has successfully linked 18 year-old H***** P****** C**** to additional graffiti vandalism.
Historic City News local crime reporters first reported that on February 4, 2011, C**** was arrested and charged with 18 counts of vandalism. According to police, C**** painted the word “Duru” on property throughout the downtown area.
Posted by Tag One on Saturday, March 26, 2011,
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SANTA CRUZ -- An 18-year-old responsible for more than 160 graffiti tags in Santa Cruz County in recent months was sentenced to 270 days in jail and ordered to pay more than $20,000 in restitution to the victims, a Santa Cruz County Superior judge ruled Wednesday.
A******* J***** pleaded guilty on Feb. 7 to three counts of felony vandalism and seven counts of misdemeanor vandalism. Prosecutor Jason Gill said in court Wednesday that J****** had essentially stolen thousands of dollars from his v...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, March 9, 2011,
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Police have charged 89 people during a two-week crackdown on graffiti, vandalism and associated antisocial behaviour.
The youths and adults arrested were facing a total of 301 charges after the first phase of Operation Eraser, a year-long crackdown on vandalism which costs the community about $25 million a year to clean up and fix.
Det-Sen. Sgt Brad Royce said 60 of those accused of damaging buses and trains were under 18, with six of them facing a total of 145 criminal damage charges.
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New York — A Brooklyn graffiti vandal got tagged with a 42-count indictment Thursday for using acid to etch his "GEAR" and "G7" markings into Queens bus shelters.
A******** T*******, 19, faces four years in prison for causing $5,100 in damage to 21 glass bus shelters in 2009.
"We will not allow such individuals to mar the beauty of our city or threaten to return us to the days when our transit system and our highways and buildings were covered with graffiti," said Queens District Attorney Ri...
Some of Seth King's graffiti handiwork can be found on a freeway sound wall in north Columbus. He must remove the vandalism after serving his one-year jail sentence.
A 19-year-old graffiti vandal will have plenty of time to reflect on his pending date with scrub brushes and paint brushes in the Clintonville, Northland and the University District.
S*** K***, also known by his tag name as "Seed," of Pontiac Street in North Linden...
S*** M. K***'s SEED tag is spray-painted
on the exterior of Cazuela's Grill at 2247 N. High St. After he
completes his jail time, K*** is expected to scrub his graffiti off
walls.
S*** M. K*** spread his
SEED tag over countless buildings in Clintonville, Northland and the University
District.
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An 18-year-old Watsonville man who was tied
to 160 acts of graffiti around Santa Cruz County pleaded guilty in
Santa Cruz County Superior Court Tuesday to three felony counts and
seven misdemeanor counts of vandalism.
A****** R****** J***** will be sentenced March 9. District Attorney
Bob Lee's office says it expects J***** will receive a county jail
sentence and perform one year of cleaning up graffiti. He will also have
to pay back more than $25,000 of ...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, January 6, 2011,
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On canvas and plywood and selling upward of $450 a piece, the art of K*** B*********, aka SLOW, is currently on display at The Tap Room in Pacific Beach. For him, graffiti channeled his angst away from depression and self mutilation into an illegal, colorful defacement of property.
The 23-year-old Coronado native was released on July 22 after serving one year in San Diego's George Bailey Detention Facility and paying $87,000 for damages and cleanup costs.
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By Carl Hessler Jr.
NORRISTOWN — A New Hanover man is headed to prison after he admitted to "tagging" numerous Lansdale buildings with graffiti and to housing a marijuana grow operation at his former Hatfield apartment.
N******* R****** D*****, 23, of Wagner Road, New Hanover, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court to 11½ to 23 months in the county prison, to be followed by two years' probation, after he pleaded guilty to charges of possession with intent to deliver marijuana, criminal mis...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 22, 2010,
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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.
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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 ...
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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...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, October 25, 2010,
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The term cause and effect comes from the reality one action or event
often has the result of causing another action or event to occur.
The two are then seen as being related.
Two stories this past week may have seemed to be isolated occurrences
but a closer look leaves you wondering if they are not in fact tied
together in a cause and effect relationship.
The first story was that of an individual convicted of 77 charges of graffiti vandalism.
Posted by Tag One on Monday, October 25, 2010,
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HAVERHILL — A convicted spray-paint vandal, on
probation for defacing a brick wall at two Lawrence businesses in 2007,
is now accused of causing $5,000 worth of damage to MBTA property.
A****** D*****, 22, of 59 I St., was arrested at his
home by Officer Scott Gleed about 1:41 p.m. Monday on a warrant charging
him with violating his probation.
D*****, a member of a graffiti group on the North Shore
called "24K" was still on probation for his 2007 tagging conviction in
the Lawrence cas...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, October 25, 2010,
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A
trio of graffiti taggers arrested this summer for causing thousands of
dollars in damage to city property face additional felony charges after
graffiti detectives said they found at least three other locations
bearing their markings.
J***** R*****, 20, of O'Hara; G******* A*****, 20, of Sharpsburg; and
E*** F*****, 28, of Bloomfield were charged today with criminal
mischief and conspiracy. Members of the police bureau's graffiti task
force said they found their taggings on the 10th ...
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Three teens suspected of causing an estimated $35,000 in graffiti damage in Fontana were arrested by police Saturday.
Frank Gomez, 18, of Fontana, along with a 15 and 16-year-old boy were arrested on suspicion of vandalism and resisting arrest.
Police came to the 16900 block of Valley Boulevard at 10:20 p.m. on a
report of people vandalizing property. The suspects fled before officers
arrived, but police found them about a quarter mile away.
Posted by Tag One on Monday, October 18, 2010,
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An
Iraq war vet who moonlighted as an interstate serial graffiti vandal
was sentenced to six months in jail yesterday for painting nine T trains
with massive murals on a three-day tagging spree in May.
T police said Chicago-native J*** A******, 25, is a member of the
international graffiti crew MUL — or Made U Look. He pleaded guilty to
nine counts of vandalizing MBTA property for spray-painting his tag
“WOES” on four Red Line trains at the Codman storage yard in Dorchester
and f...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, October 18, 2010,
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A young Winnipeg man once touted by police as one of the city's most active graffiti artists is not headed to jail.
D***** S**** F****, 23, was sentenced Thursday morning to 20 months
of house arrest to be followed by three years of probation after
previously pleading guilty to more than 70 counts of public mischief.
F**** was a prime target of a 2008 police sting on so-called
"taggers" who were vandalizing property in the River Heights, Osborne
Village and Crescentwood areas of the city....
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Glenwood resident P****** B****, 29, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment, suspended for five years - in a Durban court yesterday.
He also received 12 months house arrest under Correctional Services supervision as well as 16 hours of community service a month.
B**** and others in his group are believed to have vandalised more than 1 400 properties - including bridges, telephone poles and municipal bins over eight months.
Carol van Staden - of Van Staden and Associates, a private investigati...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, September 13, 2010,
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(Media-Newswire.com) - Police Minister Neil Roberts has today
congratulated officers from the Queensland Police Service State Crime
Operations Command’s Taskforce Against Graffiti who, assisted by members
of the Railway Squad and Metropolitan North Region, arrested a
16-year-old male on 200 charges of wilful damage by graffiti.
Mr
Roberts said information from the public led police to launch an
investigation into a graffiti tag recorded across Brisbane’s northside
suburbs.
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For the second time in two years, one of Pittsburgh's notorious graffiti vandals is heading to state prison.
Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey A. Manning on Tuesday
tagged I** d* B***, 23, with a one- to three-year prison sentence; five
years of probation; and orders to repay the more than $45,000 worth of
damage he caused by spray-painting properties from Mt. Washington to
Lawrenceville.
"When you do damage to someone's property, it's the same as theft,"
Manning told ...
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By ALEX KENNEDY
The Associated Press
Wednesday, August 18, 2010; 8:39 AM
SINGAPORE -- A Swiss man asked a Singapore judge Wednesday to reduce his
five-month jail term for graffiti, but instead got two months added to
his sentence, showing the lengths the city-state will go to maintain its
reputation as a safe and clean place.
O***** F****** argued in his appeal that he should serve a three-month
sentence for vandalism concurrently with a two-month trespassing
penalty, rather th...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, August 16, 2010,
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D***** C****** might have thought he was cultivating an air of mystery
when he tagged at least 14 different locations around town with his
"Uno?" alias, but now he's facing a long list of charges after he was
spotted writing graffiti in broad daylight on Aug. 4.
The
20-year-old Port Chester man might have gotten bolder than usual when he
ventured onto the property of J.J. Cassone's bakery on South Regent
Street and tried to add another notch to his belt at 5:30 p.m., when it
was still ... Continue reading ...
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GOLETA — In a tourist-centric community struggling to combat the
eyesore of public area graffiti art, a noted “tagger” finally ran afoul
of the law last Friday.
An aggressive investigation into street vandalism in the area came to
an end with the July 30 felony arrest of S***** T******.
T******, 20, is suspected of numerous serial public graffiti
violations. As described to the media by Santa Barbara County sheriff’s
spokesman Drew Sugars, the young suspect has “a street reputa...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, July 22, 2010,
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A 4ft 3in graffiti vandal from London caused £40,000 of damage in
areas including the capital on a "tagging" spree - using a stepladder.
M*******
M******* was jailed for daubing his personalised signature on buildings
and trains in 11 London boroughs, as well as Hertfordshire, Sussex and
Kent.
The 27-year-old, who admitted causing criminal damage at an
earlier hearing, had carried out a campaign of vandalism over two years,
British Transport Police said.
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Man pleads guilty to graffiti charges
Thursday, June 24, 2010
By Lindsay Carroll, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Police say Ian Debeer left this tag on
the Allegheny Wharf.
A man who allegedly caused more than $200,000 worth of damage with
his graffiti pleaded guilty to charges of vandalism today.
I** D*****, a 22-year-old originally from Buffalo, N.Y., had been
charged with 100 counts of vandalism to city, railroad and private
property. Prosecutors reduced some of his charges and withd...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, June 20, 2010,
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SAN BERNARDINO - A year of intelligence gathering
resulted in a two-day sweep of suspected graffiti vandals earlier this
week.
Thirteen people were arrested on various charges, including felony
vandalism, possession of marijuana, cultivation of marijuana, burglary,
outstanding warrants, felon in possession of ammunition and
probationary violations, said San Bernardino Police Department Sgt.
Dwight Waldo.
Firearms and narcotics were also confiscated during the raids
Wednesday...
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A Richmond graffiti artist will spend
time behind bars after vandalizing several local neighborhoods.
M****** A******* was sentenced last week after admitting to defacing
properties in the Fan District and Oregon Hill. Atkinson, who often
spray paints his "who" tag, will spend 10 weekend days behind bars,
allowing him to work during the week before turning himself in on
Saturdays and Sundays.
Police said A******* generally tags private property, and is known to
have spray-painted restau...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, April 19, 2010,
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CAPITOLA, Calif- After a 10 month long investigation, 19 year old
C********** J. H****, a.k.a J***** B***, was arrested
for felony vandalism.
The Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office Community Policing Team and
the Capitola Police Department have been investigating a the graffiti
vandal known as BLOT.
On April 8 Capitola Mall Security witnessed B*** tagging BLOT
graffiti on mall property. Mall Security detained B*** and Capitola
Police Officer Thompson conducted a preliminary investigati...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, March 22, 2010,
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Two men will be charged with being the
graffiti artists who caused about $4,200 in damage at locations
throughout the city, Pittsburgh police said Thursday.
St***** W*****, 22, of Overbrook and P****** W****, 22, of Dormont
are each accused of causing $2,100 in damage to 10 buildings and
properties that were vandalized, police said. The displays include
identifying trademarks such as "CCK," "3311," "DRAMA" and "SLAVE."
"CCK" stands for a group of graffiti vandals known as "Crazy, Crac...
Posted by Tag One on Friday, March 12, 2010,
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A NOTORIOUS graffiti artist whose ‘tags’ could be found across
Birmingham has vowed to put down his pen permanently after he was caught
red-handed on camera, a court heard.
S**** T***** was finally snared by officers last year after CCTV
captured him defacing a wall separating platforms four and five at New
Street train station, it emerged at Birmingham Magistrates Court.
The court also heard how the 22-year-old, who scrawled under various
guises including Data, Dater and Dater Ibs...
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SANTA CRUZ, Calif. - Security guards at Santa Cruz's Red Room bar
early Saturday morning caught a man suspected of spray painting a Santa
Cruz police car; investigators say evidence points to the man as being a
"prolific" vandal.
K*** A******** H***, 24, of San Francisco, was stopped by security
guards just after midnight Friday; a bar customer told the guards a man
had just painted graffiti on the wall of a hotel on Locust Street,
police report. A police car parked nearby was found to...
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A man is facing dozens of mischief charges after a number of Old
Strathcona buildings were defaced with graffiti.
Graffiti tags were found on homes and businesses in southwest
Edmonton between Aug. 17 and Dec. 1 of last year.
Cops say the charges come after an “extensive” investigation.
“I would suggest this is probably our single biggest instance where
we’re laying so many charges in relation to graffiti,” said Const.
Gerald Jorgenson, graffiti project co-ordinator with EP...
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CORPUS CHRISTI —
A graffiti vandal has been sentenced to a year and a half in state jail for vandalism to several buildings including a church.
C**** G*******, 18, pleaded guilty Jan. 6 to felony graffiti and
two misdemeanor graffiti counts. Magistrate Judge Melissa Madrigal
sentenced him to 18 months in state jail on the felony, 40 days in
county jail on the misdemeanors and revoked his probation in a drug
case, according to online court records.
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LEXINGTON – J***** C**********, 20, appeared in Dawson
County Court Thursday afternoon and pleaded guilty to half of the
counts of graffiti he allegedly committed on or about Oct. 31, 2009.
C**********was charged with “knowingly and intentionally applying
graffiti of any type on any building, public or private, or any other
tangible property owned by any person without permission of the owner
or operator of the property,” for the following locations: Strike and
Spare Bowl, Tom Mathies, T... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, January 3, 2010,
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Graffiti vandals in Western Australia will face two years in jail or
a $24,000 fine under tough new laws to come into effect on January 1.
The new legislation will double the maximum penalty for vandalism.
Retailers
will also be slapped with a $6000 fine for selling implements such as
spray cans or non-water soluble marker pens, with a tip over 6mm wide,
to people under the age of 18.
WA Attorney General
Christian Porter on Thursday said the new laws were d...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, December 20, 2009,
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A 17-year-old Reno juvenile has been arrested by Reno police on
felony graffiti charges after he allegedly admitted to carrying out 271
graffiti vandalism incidents throughout the city, police said Thursday.
Police
detectives say the suspect was also arrested in August after witnesses
identified him as the individual responsible for graffiti vandalism
under the bridge at Booth Street and Idlewild Drive for which he is
currently on probation, police said.
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, December 20, 2009,
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By Dennis Romero
The graffiti artist known as Revok was charged today after he was arrested last month at a show of his work in Mid-City.
The 32-year-old whose real name is REVOK was charged with
one misdemeanor count of possessing graffiti tolls and and three
misdemeanor counts of possessing stolen property. A sheriff's
department Special Problems Team along with California Highway Patrol
officers and the Los Angeles Police Department's graffi...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, November 19, 2009,
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West Hartford Police have arrested a local man in connection with a recent string of vandalism.
D**** M****, 20, of 51 Ridgewood Road was arrested early Tuesday
morning in the area of Albany Avenue and Steele Road with a can of
spray paint in his back pocket, police said. M**** is accused of spray
painting several traffic boxes with the pseudonym "MANTRA" and "KNOX
ONE."
Authorities say the words have been spray painted on traffic boxes,
street signs, and other structures on public and p... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Friday, November 13, 2009,
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KEENE SENTINEL -- A Vermont man who sprayed graffiti on
several buildings in Keene has been sentenced to a year in jail and
ordered to pay more than $18,000 in restitution.
K*** W*****, 20, of Milton pleaded guilty to a felony-level
charge of being an accomplice or principal to criminal mischief during
a hearing Oct. 27 in Cheshire County Superior Court.
W***** was sentenced to a year at the Cheshire County jail in
Westmoreland. He had already served 118 days in jail before the
sentencing...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, November 5, 2009,
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DENVER - A reputed graffiti "artist" who once boated that he would
never be caught was found guilty of several graffiti-related crimes
Wednesday.
T****** B******, 27, was convicted of three counts of criminal
mischief, three counts of defacing public property and one count of
trespassing. He could face up to 36 months in jail when he is sentenced
on December 29th.
Denver Police say B****** was the leader of a Denver-area graffiti
tagging crew, many of whom have also been identified and arre... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, October 25, 2009,
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RICHMOND - OREGON HILL -
Richmond police say they have arrested the person responsible for several acts of graffiti vandalism in the City.
Investigators say 33 year old C*** N**** of Richmond defaced several
locations in the Oregon Hill neighborhood along with city parks. They
say he used the tag name "Dr. Bastard."
They say they found proof after a search of N****'s Cherry Street residence.
He's been charged with three counts of destruction of property and o... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Friday, October 16, 2009,
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New
London – Angry property owners addressed a Superior Court judge this
morning upon hearing that Robert V. Guess, accused of vandalizing
dozens of downtown buildings with graffiti, would serve only five weeks
in prison and two years probation.
Guess, who has been held on $50,000 bond since his Sept. 29 arrest,
pleaded guilty to three counts of second-degree criminal mischief and
admitted to violating his probation from an earlier graffiti case. He
agreed to remain in prison until Nov. 3, ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, October 12, 2009,
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By Martin Finucane, Globe Staff
A 27-year-old New York graffiti artist was sentenced today to six
months in jail for spray-painting graffiti in the Back Bay and at the
MBTA's Orient Heights rail yard.
D******* B****** was also ordered to serve five years of probation that
will be supervised by New York officials; to stay out of Boston for
that period; to undergo a mental health evaluation and treatment, if
necessary; and to pay restitution, with the amount to be determined at
a Dec. 15...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, September 29, 2009,
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A
NOTORIOUS graffiti vandal turned acclaimed artist has escaped a prison
sentence for his past life defacing trains and private property.
The
Brisbane Magistrates Court yesterday heard R****** O**** F***, 23, was
a renowned aerosol artist in the international graffiti "sub-culture"
before police raided his home in June last year.
Police found numerous spray paint cans along with a computer hard
drive containing photos and videos of F*** and others spray painting
trains, walls and ...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, September 24, 2009,
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A VANDAL who caused more than
£8000-worth of graffiti damage to railway property in the West End of
Glasgow has been sentenced to 80 hours of community service.
P****** P*****, 19, of Beith Street, P******, was sentenced at
Glasgow Sheriff Court after earlier pleading guilty to five vandalism
offences.
He is believed to be a member of a notorious graffiti gang called
BTS and his distinctive "ONCE" and "TUNE" tags were daubed on walls in
the Jordanhill and Partick areas of the ci...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, September 23, 2009,
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One suspect in the Petoskey graffiti vandalism case is scheduled for sentencing later this month.
After
pleading guilty Aug. 26 to malicious destruction of personal property
between $200 and $1,000 — a one-year misdemeanor — which is one of the
two original charges against him, 18-year-old A******** C**********
Iuni — hometown unknown — was able to have a five-year felony charge —
malicious destruction of a building between $1,000 and $20,000 —
against him dropped.
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, July 19, 2009,
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Turtle graffiti artist arrested
Posted:
Jul 17, 2009 1:13 PM EDT
An Elkhart graffiti artist who left his signature turtle spray painted across the city is now behind bars.
The
Elkhart Police Department said there's over sixty cases where a turtle
was painted or drawn on various businesses and homes throughout the
city.
A detective working the cases and recently developed a suspect, 20 year-old R*** L*****,
in at least some of the cases. The detectivereferred 9 of the cases to
the Prosecut...
Posted by Damn on Saturday, July 11, 2009,
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UTAH GETS JAIL FOR SPRAY-PAINTING TRAIN
A Queens graffiti vandal with a habit of
spray-painting subway trains was given a slap on the wrist today when a judge
sentenced her to just a few weeks in jail.
D******* B******, 27, known by her tag name "Utah,"
pleaded guilty in Queens Supreme Court earlier this year to criminal mischief,
which carries a six-month jail sentence.
But before pleading guilty to the charge in Queens,
B****** admitted to the same crime in Manhattan and agreed with p...
Posted by FACE on Friday, July 3, 2009,
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Graffiti vandal charged
A BERWICK graffiti vandal has been arrested after causing more than $34,000 damage around the City of Casey.
Police
arrested the 19-year-old man at his house on 4 June and charged him
with two counts of theft and five counts of criminal damage. The arrest
comes as members of the Casey Response Unit clamped down on graffiti
crime in the area, with the backing of the council.
Posted by OOPS on Sunday, June 28, 2009,
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Teen arrested for graffiti
By TERRI SANGINITI • The News Journal
• June 26, 2009
A
19-year-old Wilmington man was arrested Thursday as part of an
Anti-Graffiti Task Force investigation for vandalism in three different
jurisdictions in New Castle County.
First Posted: 7/29/11 03:29 PM ET Updated: 7/29/11 03:29 PM ET