"5 charged in Back Bay graffiti case; Blue paint found on suspects’ hands" by Vivian Ho, Globe Correspondent / November 20, 2010
Five people were charged with vandalizing and tagging property early yesterday after spray-painting offensive phrases on several Back Bay buildings, including a firehouse, authorities said.
Police responding to a call about a vandalism in progress just before 2:30 a.m. found Dana Cataldo, 25, of Halifax; William Grady, 24, of Milford; Timothy O’Brien, 23, of Hanson; Patricia Nelson, 23, of Brookline; and Shannon Craig, 23, of Plympton in the area of reported vandalism. They had blue paint on their clothing and hands, according to a Boston police report.
Aren't you guys a little old for that?
The suspects allegedly sprayed sexual messages in blue paint on Cafe 939 on Boylston Street and the Boston Architectural College on Newbury Street, and painted on an outhouse behind 324 Newbury St., and on the Boston Firehouse on Boylston Street. Police also found wet blue paint on the rear of the Men Tei Japanese Noodle Cafe on Hereford Street.
Officers found three of the suspects hiding behind a wall, and O’Brien and Nelson riding a bicycle in the alley, police said. Nelson fled on her bicycle out of the alley and onto Boylston Street, crashing into a cruiser before police caught her, authorities said.
That means the cops hit her.
When officers asked her where she was coming from, Nelson allegedly responded, “What if I am coming from someplace I shouldn’t have been?’’
Meg Mainzer-Cohen, president and executive director of the Back Bay Association, said vandalism and graffiti is an ongoing problem in the Back Bay.
In February 2009, Shepard Fairey, the artist behind the “Obama Hope’’ poster, was arrested on the way to his gallery opening at the Institute of Contemporary Art. He pleaded guilty in July and was ordered to apologize, to publicly renounce tagging, to pay $2,000 to the Neighborhood Association of Back Bay, and to have no tagging equipment when in Suffolk County, unless it is for a scheduled show.
“The minute an area gets cleaned up, it seems like the area gets tagged again,’’ Mainzer-Cohen said.
While damage of property by graffiti and tagging is a misdemeanor, Boston judges have been enforcing tough sentences on those found guilty of such charges.
Who did they kill?
I'm not excusing the property damage because I find that offensive; however, the cops are cracking down?
Not enough rapes, robberies, and murders to solve?
In October 2009, a judge sentenced Danielle Bremner, 27, of New York to six months in jail and five years probation after she pleaded guilty to spray-painting graffiti in the Back Bay and at the MBTA’s Orient Heights railyard in East Boston....
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Related: Victim’s purse found near suspect’s home
Yeah, never mind the drug-dealing thief.
Also see: Man killed wife, self, Worcester DA says
Pregnant mother struck, killed by car on Cape Cod
Wife of slain man sues city
But the spray-painters are a problem.
