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
By anon
Mon, 07/16/2018 - 7:03pm
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
By BostonDog
Mon, 07/16/2018 - 9:38pm
If that's his defense, bring it on.
That's why Chapter 126A exists
By Waquiot
Mon, 07/16/2018 - 10:35pm
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
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 07/16/2018 - 7:48pm
Sheriff Trumpsnuffer would be happy to send him to work on the Bigly Wall.
Why reward him?
By BostonDog
Mon, 07/16/2018 - 9:46pm
A huge, blank wall is that kid's wet dream.
Punishment!
By anon
Tue, 07/17/2018 - 1:16pm
A huge blank wall that he cannot tag, but has to look at every day!
Might be cruel and unusual.
Does he get bail?
By Waquiot
Mon, 07/16/2018 - 7:47pm
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
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 07/16/2018 - 7:49pm
I think this is a case for GPS tracker - he's harmless to other humans, but likely to flee.
Sounds fair
By Waquiot
Mon, 07/16/2018 - 7:53pm
Let’s see what the judge does.
Boston, Chyenne, San Franciso, back to Boston
By anon
Tue, 07/17/2018 - 1:37am
This guy gets around. How does he $fund$ his lifestyle?
People pay big money for his
By Kinopio
Tue, 07/17/2018 - 9:21am
People pay big money for his artwork. Just kidding, obviously. He screams trust fund brat.
"trust fund"
By ECG (nli)
Tue, 07/17/2018 - 9:44am
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
By baepp
Tue, 07/17/2018 - 9:58am
Just kidding...
Far Worse
By John-W
Tue, 07/17/2018 - 10:15am
...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
By Kaz
Tue, 07/17/2018 - 5:49pm
Let him paint the hell out of those.
In other news...
By Gary C
Tue, 07/17/2018 - 10:15am
Was he involved in that other recent incident at DTX?
Lets hope the Police finally keep their promise...
By anon
Tue, 07/17/2018 - 10:04am
That they will throw the book at him.
book'em danno
By anonn
Tue, 07/17/2018 - 10:38am
book'em danno
Hair Dye
By King.of.Brighton
Tue, 07/17/2018 - 5:02pm
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-spr...
Background of the artist....
By theszak
Wed, 07/18/2018 - 5:40am
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.
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