By the way, new updates and pics coming very soon!

According to the Los Angeles County Sherrif’s office MTA is responsible for some of the city’s most notorious acts of vandalism, most notably L.A.’s largest tag: the giant, half-mile-long “MTA” scrawl that appeared last year along the concrete banks of the Los Angeles River near downtown. (See figure 1.1)

Figure 1.1

More information will surely follow.

Source: 7 alleged members of L.A. tagging crew arrested

A notorious graffiti vandal who features his work on YouTube has been arrested.

Cyrus Yazdani, also known by his graffiti tag “Buket,” was arrested Tuesday when he showed up for an appointment with his probation officer, the Sheriff’s Department said.

Yazdani was booked on multiple felony counts of vandalism for allegedly causing thousands of dollars in property damage.

Source: Notorious Graffiti Vandal Arrested In Los Angeles

TSL (OG TSL writing since mid-90’s; not related to 7th!) – DBI; San Bernardino, CA; overpass heaven

Here’s a gem that I found on the Las Vegas Strip across the street from the Miracle Mile Shops, which are next to the new Planet Hollywood (old Aladdin). It’s always nice to see the Vegas nick names living up to their meanings.

More to come shortly.

Just getting mad won’t solve our city’s graffiti plague – You’re damn right it won’t. You guys up in Stockton need to wake up to the real problem, which the writer of this specific news piece tried to convey.

Cops Nab Bay Ridge Graffiti Perps – Police have not ruled out that the graffiti could be gang related because it included the characters “L2D.” …not always the case Mr. smart investigator! I swear to God I’d take all of your jobs!

More to come very soon.

Here’s the details:

Cops say Candy Ellen Srichandr is bad news: a graffiti artist and a stripper, they say she’s gone from defacing public property with her spray paint to taking part in a heinous murder. When gunfire erupted at a SoCal art show, a family man who Srichandr considered a rival was dead, and Candy was nowhere to be found. Now, police have put this Valley Girl where she belongs: in a cage.

That’s a direct quote from the America’s Most Wanted website.

The story will be airing within the next half hour on FOX 11 (channel 11 on basic cable) in southern California.

More quotes:

In the middle on the night on February 8, 2008, cops say Candy Srichandr was nabbed in Long Beach, Calif. Investigators were tracking her journey with the assistance of your leads, and they knew for sure she was hiding out in St. Louis and parts of Colorado.

It wasn’t until an anonymous tipster contacted a U.S. Marshal in Los Angeles to tell him that Srichandr may be hiding out at a residence in Long Beach. Our investigator and his team headed out to the location — but not expecting to find Srichandr.

They honestly thought she was still in Colorado. To their surprise, she was inside the residence, arrested her immediately, and shipped her off to the Van Nuys station in the San Fernando Valley. She’s locked behind bars, and awaiting her hearing with a judge.

More to come!

UPDATE:
I’ve been getting loads of feedback about this post and you guys need to calm down.
About posting images of graff when I find them: If you don’t want certain people to know where you are and where you’re getting up then maybe you shouldn’t get up at all? Don’t blame me for your own stupidity, you shouldn’t even be graffing in illegal spots to begin with.
About “name dropping”: I post the names of the writers where it’s already legible! If I can’t read it or don’t recognize the writer myself I won’t post a name. And isn’t having a handle enough to hide behind anyways? I mean, that’s what they’re used for, right? So, please, stop blaming others for your own stupidity. Pzz.

DHER – Paradise, CA

GAMOS – Barstow Area, CA

DOC – Baker, CA

Indecline – Las Vegas, NV

JABS & Indecline – Paradise, NV

Much more to come!!

A wannabe MS13 teen sprays cars, runs away, gets caught.

Another journalist comes up with a not so unique title, with “Graffiti boards serve to encourage tagging”.

Graffiti vandals in Spain attack complaining couple.

Graffiti fines raised dramatically in Zagreb, Croatia.