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Police nab T tagging suspect in East Boston
By adamg on Mon, 07/16/2018 - 6:33pm
Transit Police report their BPD counterparts arrested Marc Meadowcroft in East Boston this afternoon.
Meadowcroft faces a variety of graffiti-related felony changes for his alleged penchant for spraying his pen name across MBTA vehicles, stations and walls; following convictions for earlier paint-based vandalism, including on the historic trolleys parked at Boylston station.
After spending some time out west, Meadowcroft recently returned to the Boston area and was, allegedly, captured on video scrawling his name on some windows at the Forest Hills T stop. A bolder, spray-painted version of his name appeared around the same time on the grates n front of a store a couple blocks away on South Street.
Innocent, etc.
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chapter 126b Tagger Law
The law says sprays, paints or places stickers it doesn't cover a magic marker especially a non permanent one. That being said one down on the MBTA's ten most wanted list.
Ink is a form of paint
If that's his defense, bring it on.
That's why Chapter 126A exists
It covers an offender who "intentionally, willfully and maliciously or wantonly, paints, marks, scratches, etches or otherwise marks, injures, mars, defaces or destroys the real or personal property of another including but not limited to a wall, fence, building, sign, rock, monument, gravestone or tablet"
Or, the prosecutors go with the intent of 126B. Same punishment, with 126B having the added punishment of loss of a driver's license.
Ship him to the Bristol lock up
Sheriff Trumpsnuffer would be happy to send him to work on the Bigly Wall.
Why reward him?
A huge, blank wall is that kid's wet dream.
Punishment!
A huge blank wall that he cannot tag, but has to look at every day!
Might be cruel and unusual.
Does he get bail?
Yes, this is not a violent crime, but would he be a flight risk seeing that he absconded to the Equality State after violating the terms of his probation in the defacement of historic property.
Maybe with a bracelet
I think this is a case for GPS tracker - he's harmless to other humans, but likely to flee.
Sounds fair
Let’s see what the judge does.
Boston, Chyenne, San Franciso, back to Boston
This guy gets around. How does he $fund$ his lifestyle?
People pay big money for his
People pay big money for his artwork. Just kidding, obviously. He screams trust fund brat.
"trust fund"
Not every (assumed to be) unemployed white idiot has a trust fund. A quick googling shows very modest places he's likely stayed in Revere and Cheyenne. Maybe he's just bumming around cheaply being a jerk.
I'm certainly not defending him, especially after the vintage trolley vandalism. I think that he should serve a long term of scrubbing graffiti from the city with a toothbrush.
Cut off his hand
Just kidding...
Far Worse
...throw him to a pack of rabid transit history enthusiasts....force him to listen to a two-hour long debate over the merits of different models of Green Line trolleys....the motherfucker will hang himself.
Fuck the Type 8's
Let him paint the hell out of those.
In other news...
Was he involved in that other recent incident at DTX?
Lets hope the Police finally keep their promise...
That they will throw the book at him.
book'em danno
book'em danno
Hair Dye
Looks like he died his hair since his photo was posted. Looks much lighter in these surveillance photos.
https://www.universalhub.com/2018/guy-who-once-spray-painted-historic-tr...
Background of the artist....
a) What is the background of the fellow?...
b) What costs are there to put away the fellow?...
c) What are costs for an ankle monitor/community service/rehabilitation program?...
d) Compare the fellow getting caught with others more street smart about not getting caught.