Entries from LAist tagged with 'tagger'
May 29, 2008
Cyrus Yazdani, 24, who is known on the streets as Buket, was arrested after videos of him allegedly tagging around Los Angeles were posted on YouTube. Los Angeles County Sheriff's had been looking for him for awhile and finally caught up with the by-day Las Vegas convention planner/by-night alleged prolific street tagger with a criminal record (see videos here of him on a freeway bridge and tagging a bus in downtown during the middle of......
Continue Reading "YouTube Graffiti Tagger Could Get 20 Years"May 28, 2008
Back in March, three guys taped themselves scamming Del Taco in order to get free food, which is essentially stealing. They put the whole how-to guide on YouTube, which led to their arrest. Now, another artistic criminal has gotten himself arrested after posting videos of him tagging around Los Angeles. He's done $150,000 worth of damage, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department estimates. Another video of "Buket" tagging a Metro bus in the middle......
Continue Reading "Midnight Movie: Tagger Puts Videos on YouTube, Gets Arrested"April 28, 2008
After confronting a tagger in Garden Grove, a man was shot four times in the upper body, according to police. The incident took place around 10 p.m. Sunday night at the corner of Robyn Court and Trask Avenue. The victim is listed in critical condition and undergoing surgery at UCI Medical Center in Irvine. The man is expected to survive. Last year, two women in separate incidents were murdered by taggers in Whittier and San......
Continue Reading "Tagger Shoots Witness 4 Times"