Archive for July, 2008

An off-duty cop caught a graffiti vandal in the act of tagging up a Staples store in his neighborhood late Sunday night, cops allege.
Police say Edward M. Chimera, 22, of Cortlandt St., used a paint marker to write two separate graffiti tags on the rear wall of the Forest Avenue store.

The off-duty officer saw him [...]

Gov. Schwarzenegger signs a law sponsored by the city of L.A. It requires convicted vandals to remove their scrawls and keep walls clean for a year.
SACRAMENTO — At the urging of Los Angeles officials alarmed about graffiti defacing the city’s many murals, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a measure into law Wednesday that requires those [...]

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