Vandalism

Border Patrol Agent Steals Blankets, Provisions for Migrants, Says No More Deaths

NMD video from a hidden camera dated January 8 When U.S. Border Patrol Agents are not shooting each other or unarmed teenagers, they like to destroy water jugs and steal supplies left in the desert for crossing migrants. That's the charge of the Tucson-based group No More Deaths, which has capture ... More >>

Odd Future Fans Tag Queen Creek Homes and Property With Graffiti Inspired By the Band

Numerous residents of Queen Creek and around the San Tan Valley have spent the past few days cleaning up a rash of grafitti and vandalism that was inflicted upon their homes and property by a pack of unknown hooligans. Here's the kicker: The vandalism was likely inspired by weirdo rap act Odd Futu ... More >>

Is "the Left" to Blame for Vandalism to Congressional Candidate Wendy Rogers' House?

​Yesterday, the campaign for Republican Congressional candidate Wendy Rogers ​announced her house was vandalized the day she announced her candidacy, and one of her campaign staffers thinks "the Left" might have something to do with it.The campaign for Rogers -- who's running in the newly formed ... More >>

Tempe Police Not Suspecting "the Left" -- or Anyone Else -- for Damage to Wendy Rogers' Landscaping Decor

​Well, Tempe police aren't suspecting "the Left" or blog commenters are responsible for the vandalism at Congressional Candidate Wendy Rogers' house on Saturday.Nor did police mention that they "recommended they investigate because of the coincidental timing of this attack with Rogers' campaign an ... More >>

Congressional Candidate Wendy Rogers' House Vandalized; Campaign Cites Left-Wing Blog Commenters

​Republican Congressional candidate Wendy Rogers says her house was vandalized the day she announced her candidacy, and one of her campaign staffers thinks "the Left" might have something to do with it.An email from the Rogers campaign says her Tempe home was vandalized on Saturday night, about 12 ... More >>

Serial Graffiti Vandal "Shaggy" Hit With Felonies For Multiple "Taggings"

www.randomfunnypicture.com​According to Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery, "graffiti is not a harmless form of creative expression. It's a destructive crime that victimizes entire communities by creating blight and encouraging additional criminal activity."One of the more prolific Valley v ... More >>

Charlie Sheen "Goddess" Bree Olson on New Porn-Star Rock Band: Biggest Problem is "Being Taken Seriously."

www.thebartshow.comBree Olson and her former flame, "bitchin' rock star from Mars" Charlie Sheen.​The biggest problem porn star/former Charlie Sheen "goddess" Bree Olson faces with her new porn-star-comprised rock band is "being taken seriously," she says -- which is a legitimate concern for a roc ... More >>

Joel "Jugz" Delgado, Graffiti Vandal Extraordinaire, Sentenced to Year in Clink

Joel Delgado admittedly has a problem: he writes "Jugz" on stuff because it gives him a "rush."​"Jugz" is headed to the joint.A Maricopa County Superior Court judge sentenced 27-year-old graffiti vandal Joel Delgado, a.k.a. "Jugz," to a year in prison and four years' supervised probation for ... More >>

Serial Sign Vandal, Upset Over Road Conditions, Arrested in Yavapai County

William Leigh Dougan​The unsatisfactory conditions of the road leading into a remote town in Yavapai County caused a Phoenix man to leave some constructive criticism stuck to roadsigns in the area. The suggestions weren't well received by local law enforcement, though, and the man was arrested for ... More >>

Have a Wall

Graf artists go indoors

Recent Grads of Phoenix Charter School Try to Set Classroom on Fire; Cause More Than $100,000 in Damage

www.cafepress.co.uk​Rather than take their diplomas and put their teenage angst behind them, three recent grads of a Phoenix charter school decided to go back for one last hurrah -- which included trashing the place and setting it on fire, Phoenix fire officials say.Phoenix Fire Investigations Dir ... More >>

Graffiti Conviction Out of Character for 42-Year-Old Gang Member; Marcos Mejia Given One-Year Sentence

  Image: MCSO Marcos Domingo Mejia has been sentenced to one year in jail for graffiti tagging.​Phoenix prosecutor Will Gonzalez says he's "fascinated" by the case of Marcos Mejia, the 42-year-old graffiti vandal who recently received a one-year jail sentence for taggin ... More >>

Graffiti Vandal Gets Record One-Year Jail Sentence in Phoenix

  Image: Wikimedia Commons Graffiti tagging can get you a year behind bars in Phoenix, like it did for 42-year-old Marcos Mejia.​A judge last month sentenced a Maryvale graffiti tagger to one year behind bars, the harshest sentence in the city's history for a graff ... More >>

Graffiti Bandit Busted by Phoenix PD; Used Fire Extinguishers to Paint Local Businesses

Phoenix PD Some of the handywork of street vandal "Near."​Phoenix police announced today that they've arrested a man they believe is responsible for a string of graffiti-vandalism incidents in the Maryvale neighborhood of west Phoenix.Yesterday, police arrested 19-year-old Robert Herna ... More >>

Right Wing Blogger Tied to Vandalism of Congressional Offices; Calls For "Window War" to Protest Health Care

www.demotivateus.com​A right wing blogger from Alabama is responding to the passage of the federal health care bill the way a pissed off 12-year-old might respond when a neighbor hands out crappy Halloween candy.Mike Vander­boegh, of Pinson, Alabama, runs a blog called Sipsey Street Irregulars, d ... More >>

Graffiti Crackdown Announced by Maricopa County Attorney

www.theletter.com​ Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas is taking a little break from cracking down on county supervisors to go after taggers. Thomas announced that juveniles convicted of vandalism will be forced to wear bright, orange T-shirts with the slogan "Tagging is a Crime" written ... More >>

More on the Rasputin's Dispute: Court Records and Photos

As we reported last week, party house Rasputin's Equestrian Manor closed at the beginning of this month. Our previous blog detailed the property owner's complaints against her former tenants, including allegations that they vandalized the property prior to their eviction.The owner of the property fo ... More >>

The Party's Over: Rasputin's Equestrian Manor Closes Amidst Accusations of Theft and Vandalism

www.myspace.com/rasputins_manor Rasputin's Equestrian Manor's door will stay closed.​Popular party house Rasputin's Equestrian Manor, the subject of our November story "Party Favors," closed on Monday, after the property owner evicted the tenants who had been throwing lavish bashes there si ... More >>

Hot Links: Vandalism, Lawsuits, and a Chandler Mansion

​Three Fountain Hills high school students have admitted to vandalizing cars in the neighborhood and tagging them with racist imagery and slurs. The only suspect being named is Alex Castellanos, 18. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says the students didn't have a racial motive, and they will be ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, August 27, 2009

Graffiti Artists in Tempe to be Identified by Their Work With New Computer Program

Image: Wikimedia Commons​ You're a graffiti artist who takes pride in his work -- your stuff is really unique. And that's why Tempe police are going to catch you. (Or so cops think, anyway). Police in the college town plan to launch new computer software that is slated to help officers in the ... More >>

Smooth Criminal: Urban Artist DOSE Takes Graffiti from the Street to the Museum and Beyond

Hot Links: Teachers at Capitol, Bodies on Lawns, and Taggers

​The number of illegal immigrants in Arizona has dropped by a third in the past two years, according to a study by the Center for Immigration Studies. Arizona had the largest decline of any state, thanks in part to a tough job market and stricter immigration laws and policies...Dozens of Valley te ... More >>

Hot Links: Fires, Schoeneweis' Wife, and Bee Swarm Warnings

In the latest four-alarm fire at a Valley structure (Richardson's restaurant was completely destroyed last week), firefighters are battling a huge blaze at a recycling plant in Glendale. The fire broke out at 8 p.m. last night at the Tempe-Inland Inc. facility, and crews are expected to battle the b ... More >>

White-Supremacist Activity Is on the Rise in Sand Land, and One Latino-American Family Is the Victim of a Vicious Hate Crime in North Phoenix

An Update on the Situation at Chez Nous

Au revoir Chez Nous: Part of the lounge's sign that's been torn down, courtesy of some vandal. It looks like Chez Nous' closing is going to be pretty permanent. In my blog post from Wednesday, I mentioned how the renowned retro lounge and soul music venue has been closed for several weeks, with ... More >>

Tag You're It: The First Pics of Phoenix Light Rail Graffiti

This tagger ain't no Basquiat, but then again, it's only a tag... As was recently mentioned in a report by my colleague Ray Stern, the Phoenix PD has released images of some of the first graffiti ever on the Phoenix Metro Light Rail. And for this historic occasion, wherein the PMLR gets ... More >>

Graffiti on the Light Rail? Hey, I Told You So...

If these two were around today in P-town, the knuckledraggin' KTAR-types'd shoot 'em on sight: Keith Haring (above) and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Ah, let the provincialism roll like a mighty wave of something brown through our benighted Valley, where every time someone hacks a loogie or lets fly an a ... More >>

Local Politicians and Journalists Help Test Out Light Rail Before Tomorrow's Grand Opening

From left: Mesa Mayor Scott Smith, Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman, and light rail CEO Richard Simonetta. Mesa Mayor Scott Smith called Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman a game show host, light rail CEO Richard Simonetta called Spawn's Todd McFarlane "Scott," and Hallman called potential light rail vandals pig ... More >>

Glendale Man Arrested on Suspicion of Hammering Speed Camera With Pickax: Hero or Villain?

  A Glendale man has been arrested on suspicion of vandalizing a speed camera on Loop 101 by striking it with a pickax. Late Wednesday night, a motorcycle officer with the Department of Public Safety heard a lot of banging noises while he was staked out under an overpass. When h ... More >>

Local Photo Enforcement Vandalism is Child's Play Compared to Destruction of Speed Cameras Elsewhere

New Times first reported two weeks ago that the speed cameras being placed abundantly throughout town by the Arizona Department of Public Safety were being "vandalized" with -- gasp -- Post-It notes. Scofflaw activists hope placing the sticky notes on camera lenses will b ... More >>

Road Rage: DPS Photo Enforcement Cameras Blocked with Post-It Notes

Freedom's Phoenix has the scoop on the growing Post-it note rebellion against DPS' new photo enforcement cameras. Say you wanna revolution? I know I do every time I take the 51 through town and have to run the gauntlet of the Arizona Department of Public Safety's photo enforcement cameras. Literal ... More >>

Tony Bouie signs defaced with vile, racist sticker.

Graffiti Artists converge on 1700 Curry

Graffiti's still dope and all the laws against it only make it more so.

Tag, You're It

The feathered fiend bombs County Attorney Andy Thomas for throwing the book at teen taggers

America's Ogre of Train Bombing

You don't know about NITTY GRITTY in your city?

Writing on the Wall

Underground event finds the work of Phoenix graffiti artists on display

Honey, He Blew Up the Kid

Bathroom Reading

Library vandal sends 2,000 books down the toilet

TAG, YOU'RE ITGOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS SPEND MILLIONS TO ERADICATE THE TAGGER CULTURE, BUT THE HIP-HOP KRYLON CREWS MAINTAIN THEIR ESPRAY DE CORPS

AMERICAN GRAFFITIAEROSOL ARTISTS ANSWER SCRAWL OF THE WILD

POISON THE 'HOOD

YOU THINK YOUR NEIGHBORS HOLD A GRUDGE? MEET VERNON BAULDRY AND ALAN GOFF.