74-year-old tagging suspect caught
Seventy-four may be the new 14 – and that might explain why a transit -tagging suspect is 74 years old. Los Angeles County sheriffs caught up with him Friday.
Many riders on Metro bus routes that serve the Crenshaw area and West L.A. couldn’t help but wonder “Who is John Scott?” That’s because it seemed the inside of every other bus carried orange-and-black stickers with that question.
The suspect in this case – 74-year-old John Scott – allegedly used those stickers instead of markers and spray paint to spread his moniker far and wide. Sheriff’s deputies say they caught the suspect sticky-handed as he posted the rectangular signs in a stairwell of the 7th and Metro Center subway station in downtown L.A.
One deputy said the oldest tagger his department had nabbed before this was a lad of 36. Sheriffs went after this one for the same reasons they do graffiti artists – the vandalism can be hard to reach and even harder to remove.
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