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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THE NEWS HAS BROKE!!!

A graffiti vandal, making the second stop on what his lawyer called a “triborough tour” of the city’s courts, was conditionally discharged Thursday and was ordered to pay $5,000.

Alain Mariduena pleaded guilty in Manhattan in August to one count of third-degree criminal mischief for writing graffiti, much of it on subway cars, with his tag, KET. Conditional discharge means he must avoid future criminal conduct and pay his fine; the sentence differs from probation because it’s not court supervised.

According to his lawyer, Ronald Kuby, Mariduena’s tag has become known around the world.

Kuby said his client would be sentenced Friday for graffiti crimes in Brooklyn. In that case he is to be spared jail, fined $3,000 and ordered to paint a mural.

Last month, Mariduena, 36, was sentenced in Queens to probation and ordered to pay $1,274 in restitution and a $3,000 fine for graffiti offenses, Kuby said.

Mariduena, who lives in the Inwood section of Manhattan, said on his Web site that he pleaded guilty in all three cases to avoid prison. Kuby said Mariduena has retired from illegal graffiti.

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Dovcom? ABS, England U.K. was sentenced today.

A vandal linked to more than 1,000 graffiti incidents causing more than £200,000 in damage has been sentenced to 300 hours’ community service.

Daniel Tyndale, 21, who has had addresses in St Philips, Bristol and Devizes, Wiltshire, received a 12-month jail sentence suspended for two years.

He admitted a series of offences throughout the Bristol area.

He was charged with nine counts of criminal damage with 350 other graffiti offences being considered.

Tyndale sprayed graffiti on numerous locations including the listed Bristol University psychology building, a van on Gloucester Road, the Polish church on Cheltenham Road, a shop near Christmas Steps, Newfoundland Road police station and the metal footbridge near Bower Ashton.

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“Raider” busted for being a top deck vandal wussy.

A prolific graffiti vandal has been banned from the top deck of any public transport bus anywhere in the country.

Billy Murrell, 17, from Plumstead, south-east London, has several criminal damage convictions on trains and buses using marker pens, police said.

It is the first time Transport for London (TfL) has obtained an anti-social order against a “tagger”.

The order also bans Murrell from carrying marker pens or sharp instruments on public transport.

The anti-social behaviour order (Asbo) which is valid for three years, was issued at Greenwich Magistrates Court on 12 September.

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Who woulda’ thought?

Sharon Balbi, 42, was given an interim anti-social behaviour order (Asbo) at Reading Magistrates’ Court.

On Friday she admitted 13 offences of criminal damage and asked for a further 223 offences dating back to 2004 to be taken into consideration.

Balbi, of Tilehurst, Reading, sprayed tags, including GUS, ICE, ART, CSI and HAWK on vehicles around Reading.

The Asbo bans Balbi from carrying items that could be used for carrying out graffiti offences.

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So, Ket’s in some trouble and needs some serious help. Check out his montage:

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Close to 300 cans of spray paint, hundreds of felt tip markers and countless spray can tips were among the tagging equipment Ontario police found early this morning in two homes where they served two search warrants.

In addition to the tagging materials police found a .40 caliber hand gun and marijuana for sale, police said.

Officers arrested two 15-year-old boys, one from Ontario and one from Pomona, on suspicion of felony vandalism and taken to West Valley Juvenile Hall, said Officer Anthony Ortiz of the Ontario Police Department.

But police are still looking for two Ontario men, Albert Fierro, 28, and Joseph Hong, 29, who police believe are the heads of a tagging crew has left markings not just in Ontario but all around Southern California between San Diego and Los Angeles, Ortiz said.

“It’s amazing these guys haven’t grown up,” Ortiz said.

Ontario police, along with members of the Montclair police department, served the two warrants this morning.

The first warrant was served about 7 a.m. at Fierro’s home in the 800 block of East D Street, Ortiz said.

About 20 minutes later police served a warrant at Hong’s home in the 500 block of West G Street, he said.

Police found the boys, who were both runaways, at the D Street address and were able to link them with the tagging crew, Ortiz said, adding one of the teens admitted to having taking part in a tagging spree the night before.

Wednesday morning’s activities were the result of more than a year’s worth of investigative work, Ortiz said, part of which kicked into a higher gear in July after a large tagging piece was discovered on the wall of a commercial building at 1445 W. Brooks St., Ortiz said.

In that instance the taggers marked up a wall 30 to 40 yards long and about 25 feet high, he said.

The investigation in that case allowed police to develop the information that allowed them to determine who was behind the vandalism that has included markings on building walls, freeway sound walls, utility polls and even railroad freight cars, Ortiz said.

Aside from the cans of spray paint, markers and spray can tips, police also found a number of books about the culture of graffiti and tagging in addition to books with taggers work.

Police also found four 5-gallon cans of paint, paint rollers and a fiberglas ladder that’s about 12 feet tall, Ortiz said.

Taggers will use paint to cover over other people’s work or to create clean surface to put up their own markings, Ortiz said.

But it’s when taggers paint over other people markings that can create other problems, he said.

“That can start a gang war,” Ortiz said.

Ortiz said Ontario police officer Jeff Zeen was able to collect a great deal of information on the case related to the vandalism the group is suspected of committing in the city which allowed them to secure the warrants.

The information Ontario collected will be shared with other law enforcement agencies and could lead to additional charges, Ortiz said.

Source: Two graffiti vandals sought by police

God, I love these quotes sometimes. And at other times, they can get pretty annoying.

A JUDGE sent out a stark message to graffiti vandals yesterday by handing down prison sentences to three members of a gang which caused nearly £180,000 of damage in a wrecking spree across the region.

The gang of graffiti artists covered hundreds of buildings and railway bridges in their distinctive tags over eight months, giving transport operators a huge clean-up bill.

Network Rail alone had to pay for a £140,000 clean-up after the “crew” covered the line between Newcastle and Sunderland in their scrawls.

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Holy ****!

Two suburban graffiti “artists” will spend the next five years cleaning up the property damage they and others have inflicted on Cleveland.

A Cuyahoga County judge ordered Danny Zhang of Seven Hills and Daniel Horvat of Wickliffe to perform 2,000 hours of community service each — 400 hours per year.

Common Pleas Judge Judith Kilbane Koch also told the two that they will be responsible for reimbursing the cost of any property owner’s cleanup of their “art.”

But the novel part of the sentence is this: The taggers must perform that community service in conjunction with a new neighborhood-based “graffiti task force” whose existence the two vandals helped to spawn.

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This is a unique find right here:

ONE OF the two jailed graffiti artists has revealed concern for his co-defendant in emotional letters sent from prison to family and friends back home.

TJ Dolan, 20, of Leek Road, Sutton, was jailed for 15 months after pleading guilty to vandalising railway property at Manchester Crown Court two weeks ago.

Writing from Lancaster Farms prison, he expressed worries about fellow spray can artist and co-defendant Tom Whittaker, 18, of Brocklehurst Avenue, who was imprisoned for 12 months after also admitting offences.

He said: “Me and Tom have been separated. I don’t know where he is. There is no reason we’re not together… and the staff don’t know why we are separated.

“I am very worried about him… and I am really concerned on how he will be coping. I’m finding not knowing increasingly difficult and feel I have to help him.”

All I have to say is this, dude stop worrying about your buddy and worry about your own ass!

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