Tagger gets jail
The City Attorney's office today is proclaiming victory against grafitti, one tagger at a time. A 19-year-old pleaded no contest to one misdemeanor vandalism count and will serve 90 days in jail and 36 months probation. Jonathan Gonzalez must also pay the City of Los Angeles $275 for damage to city property, and he lost his license for a year.
"Charges against Gonzalez stem from a routine patrol on June 21 by senior sead officers in Tarzana , who observed Gonzalez and an accomplice vandalizing a city light pole with a yellow marker at the intersection of Reseda and Ventura boulevards. Gonzalez was quickly apprehended by officers immediately following the incident and admitted to being in a local "tagging crew" and on probation for a prior vandalism conviction," according to a City Attorney press release.
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