One of our first missions: check out the “Art In The Streets” exhibit at MOCA.

Stay tuned!

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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

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.

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.

Graffiti vandals who spray-painted an historic railway carriage at Richmond Vale Railway Museum – causing damage estimated at $1800 – may be sorry they left their calling card.

A tag on one of the 52-year-old carriages left shortly after Christmas has been traced to that of a known graffiti gang based in west Newcastle – the group that struck at the same spot two years ago who were caught and convicted.

Museum director Ray Hennessy said the graffiti tag had been traced and identified by State Rail officials and details were given to the NSW Police Graffiti Unit at Newcastle.

“It’s great news. We are confident these vandals will soon be caught,” Mr Hennessy told the Maitland Mercury yesterday.

But the spirits of heartbroken volunteers were further on the mend when Mr Hennessy also revealed his latest plan to deal with vandals.

“We estimate that the cost of removing spray paint in vandalism such as this would be about $1800, mostly for expensive cleaning materials,” he said.

“But this latest incident has also provided us with an opportunity to test a project we have had in mind for some time.”

“We will use this painted carriage to try out a new scheme – painting straight over the graffiti.”

Mr Hennessy said he would paint the silver carriage in the same brown and yellow colours of the old-style wooden carriages.

“I have been wondering what would happen if we painted these colours straight onto a spray-painted carriage without first removing the graffiti,” he said.

“Now we have the very opportunity to try out this scheme.”

“If it works and the graffiti is obliterated in the new colours, it could mean a whole new approach to repairing such damage.”

“To restore this particular carriage by painting over the graffiti would probably cost us $500 – instead of the $1800 it would have cost.”

Mr Hennessy revealed another trick to obliterate graffiti vandals’ tags as soon as possible after they had struck.

“Past experience has shown that vandals become very deterred if they can’t show pictures of their work to their mates,” he said.

“We know this, because we cleaned the paint off one carriage as soon as it was discovered.”

“The vandals were pretty annoyed – and they never came back.”

In the latest incident, Mr Hennessy said the vandals had cut a hole through a fence, sighted a security camera and run out again – cutting another hole in the fence further down.

“They came up under another security camera there,” he said.

“But they pulled a pipe from the ground and pushed one camera out of position, so it was pointing at the sky.”

“Then they carried out their dirty work on the other side of the carriages.”

“They must have been there for quite a while too.”

Mr Hennessy said security at the museum site would be further upgraded, with two more security cameras being installed.

Source: $1800 vandalism bill hurts railway museum