Pyro Being Held, Illinois
While fleeing the scene this dude drops his blackbook, a shoe, and ditches all his paint. Cops find it all. Lesson learned?
A man police believe is a graffiti artist called “Pyro” was arrested last week in West City on Franklin County Charges. Saline County charges are pending in the case.
Michael L. Williams, 20, 11 Small St., Harrisburg, was arrested 12:42 p.m. Wednesday in Harrisburg for the West City Police on a charge of criminal damage to property between $300 and $10,000. He was taken to the Franklin County Jail for booking.
West City Police believe he is responsible for painting graffiti on the rear wall of the CVS pharmacy in West City early Monday, Oct. 1. He is also believed to be responsible for several graffiti paintings earlier this summer in Harrisburg, including several “taggings” on Church Street.
West City Police Chief Steve Mumbower said the village’s overnight patrol officer interrupted the suspect early Oct. 1 in the act of completing the fourth of four drawings on the wall of the pharmacy at the Rend Lake Plaza.
The suspect, also known as the “Roof Side Writer,” fled into a nearby woods before completing the lettering.
But in his haste to escape, he left behind what Mumbower called two key pieces of evidence: a shoe and a notebook containing many incriminating drawings and a telephone number belonging to the man’s girlfriend.
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