Boston Police report arresting a Quincy man after they say an officer watched him spray graffiti on two sections of the Grand Junction railroad bridge - and say he's also wanted for defacing the Longfellow Bridge.
Police say an officer on patrol spotted a guy sitting on the bridge - which crosses under the BU Bridge - around 4:30 p.m. yesterday:
The officer continued to observe the male to ensure that he would not fall into the water and to determine if he was a “tagger.” The officer then observed the male begin to spray paint the railroad tracks before walking further down the tracks to spray paint a second section. The suspect then walked off the tracks toward a path next to Storrow Drive. The officer immediately noticed that the suspect had sprayed a tag on the bridge. The officer was aware that the tagger of this symbol was the subject of an investigation by a Boston Police detective for a similar tag on the newly renovated Longfellow Bridge.
Brett Cullen, 22, was charged with two counts of felony tagging, police say.
His arrest comes about a week after BPD detectives nabbed Marc "CIGA" Meadowcroft in East Boston, wanted for tagging up both MBTA and private property in the Boston area.
Innocent, etc.
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Unintended consequences
By Parkwayne
Tue, 07/24/2018 - 11:16am
See, if we'd left the Long Island bridge up, Quincy residents could just have stayed at home to vandalize public infrastructure.
Ride the Red Line
By anon
Tue, 07/24/2018 - 11:26am
From Braintree to the portal at Andrew the walls along the red line are covered with murals some of which would have needed ladders to complete. The red line bridge from North Quincy over the Neponset river gets tagged weekly by daredevils who are risking their lives for cheap thrills.
One would assume that the
By Nick G
Tue, 07/24/2018 - 11:43am
One would assume that the bigger issue is that he tagged the newly renovated Longfellow, right? The uh.. Grand Junction Railroad Bridge is almost an unofficial Graffiti Alley.
I figured they allow it
By BostonDog
Tue, 07/24/2018 - 2:01pm
Go over the BU Bridge in the afternoon and look over the side. Half the time you can see people walking across the RR bridge with paint. No one tries to hide it.
#nobail
By anon
Tue, 07/24/2018 - 11:28am
#nobail
Kudos
By Fenwickian
Tue, 07/24/2018 - 11:57am
Kudos to the cops for busting some of these guys. It must be hard to catch vandals in progress, but it is important police work if you want to live in a beautiful city. Thank you BPD.
cue contrarian troll comments now
Photography, drawings of the artwork please!...
By theszak
Tue, 07/24/2018 - 11:57am
Photography, drawings of the artwork please!...
NOT ART
By anon
Tue, 07/24/2018 - 12:05pm
It was a tag.
Absolutely NOT!
By Subway Rob
Tue, 07/24/2018 - 1:18pm
Displaying the results of these crimes for all to see isn't a punishment for the accused...it's an accomplishment. The hell if he's put in jail...his badge of honor will be the distribution of his "work" on defaced bridges.
If you want to see it that badly, (assuming it's not already cleaned off) get off the computer & see for yourself.
Gargantuan public wall/canvas. Art School Program.
By theszak
Wed, 07/25/2018 - 12:31am
Make available a gargantuan public wall/canvas and opportunity for an art school program.
Instead of Quincy and Boston
By anon
Tue, 07/24/2018 - 12:07pm
Why not build a replacement homeless shelter in, say, Brookline or Newton? Both places are just as centrally located as Boston or Quincy. Quincy is primarily a 'working class' city. Many people live there because it's still fairly affordable compared to Boston (the non-dangerous neighborhoods), and certainly more affordable compared to Cambridge, Brookline, Somerville. I don't think Brookline does it's fair share to help deal with this metro wide problem.
Huh?
By Saddlebrook7
Tue, 07/24/2018 - 2:38pm
How did we get from felonious taggers to homeless shelters? And for that matter, Boston wants to build the shelter / treatment center on Long Island, which is part of the City of Boston, not Quincy.
Pay attention to what's going
By anon
Tue, 07/24/2018 - 2:41pm
Pay attention to what's going on locally and you'll figure it out.
They need to find SHOT SHOT guy
By FredQuimby
Tue, 07/24/2018 - 12:08pm
He is everywhere. I have seen his work in Boston, on the sound barrier in Andover next to I93 and all the way up to Portsmouth NH on highway overpasses. Its just annoying to see this crap on every flat surface in the state and others.
Every town needs a rapid removal crew. Their job should be to remove all graffiti as soon as it happens. Don't give these a-holes the satisfaction of seeing their hard work last longer than 5 minutes.
Maybe he should be tagged
By FootPad
Tue, 07/24/2018 - 12:14pm
Tag the tagger with tattoos of their signature tags on each cheek and the backs of each hand. They'll enjoy seeing that tag looking back at them forever in the mirror.
Good idea in theory
By Coyote137
Tue, 07/24/2018 - 12:31pm
but would likely prevent these knuckleheads from getting jobs. Then again, perhaps they have no interest in ever getting a job to begin with.
Bravo BPD. Boo Quincy.
By Anony-mouse
Tue, 07/24/2018 - 12:40pm
Great job, officer.
To the residents and government of Quincy: how dare you let your vandals cross the border into our beautiful city. The disruption of our city is clearly and entirely your fault.
Yeah! We need a wall, and
By baustin
Tue, 07/24/2018 - 2:08pm
Yeah! We need a wall, and Quincy needs to pay for it!
Okay, but now that I am thinking that through a little further, that wall would be an awesome spot for tagging. . .
The subjects are free to do
By King of Quincy
Wed, 07/25/2018 - 10:18am
The subjects are free to do as they will.
Mass College of Taggers
By Cityposter
Tue, 07/24/2018 - 1:15pm
So this is the perp who defaced the pristine granite along the Longfellow Bridge. Such disrespect for all of us, especially the workmen who planned and constructed the new bridge. And for what? Now an institutional gray layer of prison paint covers his ugly, grotesque swirls.
There's a Brett The Lawyer Cullen FB page listing Mass College of Art as his school. Hope there's a zero tolerance policy there for students defacing public property, and that he actually will learn from his first tat: "What goes around comes around" (See, FB photos)
Twit-ter
By ECG (nli)
Tue, 07/24/2018 - 1:35pm
https://twitter.com/brettcullen153
Revoke driver's license of graffiti man
By O-FISH-L
Tue, 07/24/2018 - 2:15pm
One of the best parts of the felony graffiti law is the opportunity for police to issue a traffic citation that either revokes the suspect's driver's license or delays eligibility to drive if a youngster. God Bless Retired MBTA Police Lt. Nancy O'Loughlin, an expert in graffiti and tagging. She brought forward many great ideas ahead of her time and taught local cops and troopers. It was fun to write a citation to a graffiti artist who would joke "but I wasn't driving a car when I tagged that building." It doesn't matter. The law is meant to discourage. I hope BPD doesn't run out of ink or citations on this case.
Bicycles work just fine
By anon
Tue, 07/24/2018 - 2:33pm
Most of these twerps take the T
Got news for ya: kids aren't getting their driving licenses anyway. How is this a deterrent?
Besides, MA won't even revoke licenses for drinking or killing people on the roads - this is silly.
She's still at it
By anon
Tue, 07/24/2018 - 4:44pm
even though she's retired from the MBTA.
Good Point
By anon
Tue, 07/24/2018 - 7:00pm
But I would wager that there is no way police can issue a traffic citation that revokes vandals drivers license. For that matter the fare evasion laws state that any violator that refuses to pay their fine will have their license suspended. I would wager a can of krylon that no fare evader or graffiti vandal has ever had their drivers license suspended.
And I would hope some public-minded lawyer would
By anon
Wed, 07/25/2018 - 12:10pm
challenge this inappropriate and legally questionable practice of tying drivers licenses and registrations to crimes that are totally unrelated to driving a vehicle. Textbook example of government overreach, bordering on gross abuse of power.
that bridge is already a
By Christopher Pratt
Tue, 07/24/2018 - 3:34pm
that bridge is already a piece of crap that is all tagged up.
One more step towards a
By Thomas
Tue, 07/24/2018 - 9:29pm
One more step towards a whitewashed and sanitized Boston.
Yup
By Waquiot
Wed, 07/25/2018 - 1:37pm
It's like I always say, the Longfellow Bridge would look a heck of a lot nicer if it were covered with bubble letters poorly drawn.
What does graffiti "54M5" mean?... Cafe Nero Building.
By theszak
Fri, 07/27/2018 - 1:27am
What does "54M5" mean?... graffiti on the top of the East side of the Cafe Nero Building in Central Square Cambridge Massachusetts North side of Massachusetts Avenue between Norfolk St and Essex Street, view from Artist & Craftsman Supply Store across the street at
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Central+Square/@42.364796,-71.1026508,3a,75y,24.07h,119.99t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxmXcqBs6cmX5OVIgSK4jfQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x1aece55b94e2cb41!8m2!3d42.3650455!4d-71.1025628
google. com/maps/place/Central+Square/@42.364796,-71.1026508,3a,75y,24.07h,119.99t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxmXcqBs6cmX5OVIgSK4jfQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x1aece55b94e2cb41!8m2!3d42.3650455!4d-71.1025628
710 77345
By anon
Wed, 07/25/2018 - 10:56am
SAMS?
54m5
By anon
Wed, 07/25/2018 - 2:13pm
It's actually the nom-de-plume of another graffiti writer, and says "SYMS". Just stylized in such a way that it's easy to confuse.
The guy at Blick?
By theszak
Fri, 07/27/2018 - 1:28am
The guy at Blick Art Materials, Central Square Cambridge, North side of Massachusetts Avenue between Essex Street and Prospect St.? https://www.dickblick.com/stores/massachusetts/cam... he gives incredible tours of Central Square Graffiti ! And gives tours of other Graffiti around the Boston metropolitan area. A brilliant art historian!
Why is this BPD
By anon
Wed, 07/25/2018 - 9:24am
and not the State Police? I figured they had jurisdiction over all the bridges, Storrow/Memorial, etc?
They do, but ...
By adamg
Wed, 07/25/2018 - 11:46am
If a Boston cop sees an illegal act going on within the city limits, he has the authority to arrest the alleged ne'er-do-well.
Similar case for car crashes on the parkways in West Roxbury and Dorchester. If a Boston cop sees a crash, he's going to respond (and, once the situation's in hand, ask the dispatcher to call State Police).
Sarah connor
By Ty
Thu, 07/26/2018 - 5:34am
No fate in what "they" create. I love it keep vandalizing this korny ass citys buildings. This city is disgusting now..there's actually a mission hill yoga LMAO!!!! Bostons gone!!! Baby gone!!
Head someplace more "real" then
By anon
Thu, 07/26/2018 - 2:00pm
Like Cleveland or Detroit.
Go right ahead!
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