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Police charge two with spray painting a building in Roslindale - after spray painting a car whose driver was stopped for a light
By adamg on Sun, 11/28/2021 - 10:53pm
Boston Police report arresting two men they tagged up a car whose driver was waiting for the light at Washington and Walworth streets around 7 a.m. today.
Police say officers responding to that incident soon found Alejandro Perez-Hobrecker, 27, of West Roxbury, and Ivan Richiez, 29, of Roslindale, busy tagging up the wall of a business way down Walworth at Belgrade Avenue. As the officers approached, the two split up and ran in separate directions.
Perez-Hobecker ran towards Roslindale Square, clutching what appeared to be a knife to officers, who ran after him, and kept running after him, and then ran after him some more, until they were finally able to apprehend him nearly a mile away, at Healy Field on Washington Street, on the other side of Roslindale Square.
Police say officers captured Richiez, who is well known in local graffiti and urban-art circles, not long after; they did not further detail his capture.
Both were charged with damage to property by graffiti and destruction of personal property. Perez-Hobrecker was also charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, although police say they were unable to find the knife they say he was holding initially. Police say officers did find several cans of spray paint.
Innocent, etc.
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Comments
Tagged a car while it was
Tagged a car while it was waiting for a light? I believe that was a Boston first. Let's hope it doesn't become a trend.
No no no
Not tagged, he made mobile urban art. /sarcasm
They're quick
I'm impressed with Perez-Hobrecker's flight. That's a decent distance to be fleeing the cops. Not that I don't think he should be charged, but I still doff my cap to his endurance.
But tagging someone's personal property while they are near it? That's a bonehead move. Getting chased by the cops as opposed to the vehicle owner is probably the better outcome for them.
No doubt
BPD has its flaws but they sure don't kill that many people in the line of duty.
Charged with assault
but no knife found? Did he run or did he assault an officer? hmm...
Perhaps some definitions are in order
Legally, assault is when you threaten to do bodily harm to somebody, while assault and battery is when you actually do it.
Flashing a knife at somebody could be considered assault, especially if the person you're displaying it to feels threatened (at least in Massachusetts, I don't know anything about criminal law in other states).
Graffiti is making a comeback
The red line walls from Savin Hill to JFK are covered with spray paint not that the T cares.
The old disappearing knife
The old disappearing knife trick. Classic
yeah
hope that charge gets dropped really fast.
27? 29?
And they are still randomly spray painting cars waiting at a light?
Well, at least they will get some grown up consequences from all this.
Remains to be seen how random.
I have a can of shaving cream I once held up and pointed at a driver trying to play chicken with me at a crosswalk and barge through. I’ve banged on hoods as well.
He should not go to jail
but should be confined in an art installation designed to resemble a jail in every detail, including bars, heavy locks, armed guards, bad food, and boredom. No sacrifice is too great for Art.
p.s. - don’t tell me it’s Not Art. That guy has it completely backwards. Everything is Art.
NGL, I really want to see
NGL, I really want to see their work now, very old school (despite the disrespect of tagging someone's car while they're in it).