Posts Tagged ‘Busted’

MTA Goes Down In A Blaze Of Glory

Friday, January 30th, 2009

This past Wednesday, authorities said they finally had arrested the MTA crew, including “Smear.” In a series of raids conducted Wednesday morning, Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials arrested Cristian Gheorghiu (32), aka “Smear”, at his home in the east Hollywood area. They also arrested Shaun Alexander, 27; Sergio Ayala, 25; Eduin Miramontes, 23; Nicholas Rem, 28; Juan Rocha, 22; and Ryan Swenson, 27, also at their homes in the Los Angeles area.

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)

MTA - Los Angeles River
Figure 1.1

More information will surely follow.

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

BUKET – TKO; BUSTED!!

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Blasting on the nightly news here in southern California on FOX, BUKET has been picked up by police. He was found, you guessed it, through his and others’ postings on YouTube.

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

“JEL” – TKO; Featured on America’s Most Wanted

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

JEL - TKO; tag on a train.I can’t believe this is the first time I heard about this story as it’s been on AMW’s website since February and was also aired on local network TV last week on the infamous television show.

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.

Drinking and Writing = Lesson Learned

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

You know, I used to often drink when I would be out writing, or maybe it was the other way around, either way I’m very glad to have never been incarcerated for drunk and writing. The following news piece should be a lesson learned for all of you who like to get a little tipsy when you’re out and about!

Athens police arrested two men yesterday morning and charged them with criminal mischief for painting graffiti on three storage buildings.

Police Captain Marty Bruce saie 23-year-old Luis Cuarado and 26-year-old Humberto Torres were each charged with three counts of third-degree criminal mischief and one count of public intoxication.

Bruce said Torres was also charged with carrying a concealed weapon after police found him carrying a pair of nunchuks.

Bruce said an officer saw the men drop some objects by a utility pole and noticed that Cuarado had red paint on his hand. The officer found two cans of red spray paint at the utility pole.

Bruce said Sergeant Jason White determined that Cuarado and Torres had painted graffiti on the three buildings near the Alabama Veterans Museum on Pryor Street.

Source: Athens Police Arrest Two For Painting Graffiti

Furthermore, nunchuks? Are you serious?!!? NUNCHUKS?!?!?