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Santa Barbara

Graffiti Trio Busted

Joseph Rocco Peransi, Jansen Michael Lee and Gregory Winfield Smith SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — It’s been nearly two decades since California schools slashed the budgets of non-academic arts and music

Orange

56-Year-Old Graffiti Artist Arrested

Joe Fugencio Mirabel SANTA ANA – It was in “broad daylight,” as they say.  With apparently little desire to hide from his actions, 57-year-old Joe Fugencio Mirabel was spotted on

Los Angeles

Lady Sprays the Blues, Vandal Arrested

Victoria Jayne Bay LOS ANGELES – LAPD announced Tuesday night’s capture of the bright blue-haired woman who’d scrawled blue graffiti on four Los Angeles County buildings – Victoria Jayne Bay

Ventura

Graffiti Vandal Tracked Down

Nicolas Yescas Ventura County – The clichéd image of graffiti crime is that it’s committed by rascally teenage boys running around in the dead of night defacing public property as a

Santa Barbara

Graffiti Vandal’s Art Goes Unappreciated

“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” — Vincent Van Gogh SANTA BARBARA, CA Apparently

Orange

Street artist/vandal and his accomplices arrested

COSTA MESA – An investigation of over a month led to the arrest of a graffiti painter and his two accomplices on Thursday, April 4th. In the nighttime hours of

Contra Costa

Arrest Made in Vandalism of Historic Hercules Home

One man was arrested and another cited on charges they spray painted the inside of a historic Hercules home Friday. Police report being called to a home near Railroad and

Santa Barbara

Gang-banger Graffiti Vandal Busted

Santa Barbara – Aaron Sepulveda Nevarez, 19, has a reputation that apparently precedes him.  Described by Santa Barbara Police Department Public Information Officer Sgt. Riley Harwood in recent statements to

Santa Barbara

Graffiti Artists Grabbed

Santa Barbara – As the midnight hour approached on January 21st, two Santa Barbara Police Department Officers—Nathan Beltran and Tyler Larson—were wrapping up a routine service call just a block from