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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