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Dallas Graffiti Writers Busted!
[previous] :: [next]Dallas Police on Thursday arrested six graffiti artists accused of causing more than $100,000 in property damage. Two of the suspected graffiti artists, who police said go by monikers like "rewd" and "soler," appear to have samples of their work posted on dallaspolice.com, a Web site that features graffiti art and clearly is intended to poke fun at law enforcement. "It’s very much an arrogant in-your-face kind of statement," said Dallas Police David Kunkle of the Web site. "They have a lack of respect for the community." About 6 a.m., nearly 30 officers fanned out across the city to find 10 people who were wanted on arrest warrants. Police located five men and one juvenile, and continue to look for the rest. "We wanted to make a statement today," said Chief Kunkle, who accompanied officers on the round-up. "We’ve asked the district attorney not to plea bargain any of these cases." He said he also is encouraging citizens to consider filing civil suits against graffiti artists. Police aren’t sure who currently operates the dallaspolice.com site. But there are monikers for what appears to be more than 400 different artists, who have posted slide shows of their work. "They’re proud of it," said Senior Cpl. Max Geron, a police spokesman. One of the arrested suspects, Anthony Gambino, 22, goes by the nickname "Soler," police said. On dallaspolice.com, an artist named "Soler" has posted a slide show of more than 50 pictures of colorful stick figures spray painted on the sides of walls, buildings and even on billboards. Dallas police also arrested the following individuals on graffiti charges: James Stevenson, 19; Jorge Mendez, 19; Edward Hernandez, 20; Dakota Wolf, 18, and a 16-year-old juvenile. Mr. Stevenson, Mr. Hernandez, Mr. Wolf and the juvenile were all accused of a class B misdemeanor, which is punishable by up to six months in jail and up to $2,000 in fines. Mr. Gambino and Mr. Mendez face a state jail felony charge, punishable by up two years in jail and up to $10,000 in fines. www.dallaspolice.com This article has been viewed 13478 times in the last 3 years Peter: 23rd Dec 2005 - 15:53 GMTwow. so soler could get up to two years in jail... for writing graffiti. geez. seems like the cops are more mad about the name of the website than they are about the graf. jeeff: 24th Dec 2005 - 00:15 GMTmaybe dallaspolice.com should take down the graffiti 'slide shows' and replace them with photos and contact info for the officers involved. flash: 24th Dec 2005 - 05:59 GMTyea thats fucked up. i see soler and rewd shit like every day... and now they're bout to be fucked hardcore. felonies ain't fun, and they're tryin to get these kids the worst of the punishments that are possible. fuck the law flash: 24th Dec 2005 - 06:00 GMTnow you can't even look at anyone's pictures on dallaspolice, only the slideshow at the front page... bunk Peter: 25th Dec 2005 - 04:07 GMTyeah its totally down, not just hidden. the "categories" (including fav folks here, like soler, goya and pet bird) is completely gone. also: i second the "fuck the law" sentiment. after doing some last minute christmas shopping for sine today, i passed some amazing soler shit, and felt really bad for him... slerp: 27th Dec 2005 - 00:35 GMTWho owns/runs dp.com? I always had a hunch that it was sekt since there was always a bunch of hd, ra shit on the slideshow. Whomever it is, I bet that hassle him as well. Juice_Artst n tagin: 28th Dec 2005 - 12:49 GMTi May not tag walls but i cant c y tha pigs are take stuff so harshly down dere n dallas y dont they just get some community service or somthing but putting in the troff aint fair their only kiddz! [amoR] Juice_Artst n graffitti: 28th Dec 2005 - 23:34 GMTwhen i say there only kiddz they have only lived threw 1/5 or 1/4 of there live and there gone 2 b locked up for the rest. amoR, CroodZ!!! Nise Dirt Krew: 2nd Jan 2006 - 23:12 GMTyou cant stop graffitti its a plague so just learn to love it. Destroy city property its a lot of fun! uzi mob: 5th Jan 2006 - 20:06 GMTrewd and kars where up like woah when i went to dallas for nye. big ups to www.dallaspolice.com That one kid: 8th Jan 2006 - 23:16 GMTNigga rewd be wrecking shit fuck you all if you dont like him fuck you all who say hes just doing recycled spots fuck you upyourz fuk all yall anon (adsl-65-65-246-196.dsl.elpstx.swbell.net): 8th Jan 2006 - 23:23 GMTR.I.P www.Dallaspolice.com motown fenskee: 19th Jan 2006 - 04:27 GMTdats some fucked up shit. u see da effort they put to catch de taggers fuck da pigz. they should put dat effort to catch rapist,,murders,drugdealers ( Manda: 19th Jan 2006 - 19:14 GMTThe jail time and fines are stupid. I'm an artist and have done legal grafitti for a company garage. It's awesome and maybe the police should try to think of an alternative. Freedom of expression, but in moderation. aok-os: 25th Jan 2006 - 12:04 GMTtwo years for the creation of art. at least they weren't out there slangin some shit and blstin shells at people. fuck the po. they gotta open their eyes. go eat a doughnut. freaky wild eddie: 5th Feb 2006 - 03:29 GMTI realize I'm gonna get flak for this, but I really don't get the perpetual unoriginality of grafitti artists. It's like the "pigs should go eat a donut" joke, it's just so yesterday it's not even clever anymore. Especially the written stuff, it always looks the same. The style, it all looks as if the same guy goes from city to city to city. Even the tags look the same. If the idea is to be submersive and non-conformist, that's totally cool, and I respect that whole-heartedly. But why do the same thing over and over and over again? It's like 80% of all grafitti jobs in any given place fall into the "wildstyle" form in one way or another. If it was so "wild" why is it always the same?? Original grafitti artists are cool. Those who pass the same old tired standard only fall into that very mold of conformity they try to condemn. They always try to one-up the other but it's always following the same tired format, with little deviation from this tired plot. Why not do something ironic like painting a mountain or a tree or something? Now that's provocative and stirring; if only because it's unconventional. Ultimately, the question for me is why express decay in decay?? We already feel the circumstance, we don't need to be remined of it. We were born in the slums, don't tell me that I live in the slums -- I already know it. I saw this entire line of train cars go by me once, wild-style on each and every one of them; otherwise a "fuck you" or something equally asinine and witless. The second to last car however completely blew my mind. The guy did this giant sailboat silhoetted on a sunset, but he had it being drawn by this kid (part of the picture). It was just so cool. It was as if he was saying, "to hell with it, I was drawing sailboats when I was 4 years old, it was more real than anything going on here on the rest of this train." freaky wild eddie: 5th Feb 2006 - 03:47 GMTFor example, here are some typical sleepers (taken from a page at random). Notice how each and every one is essentially the same: I realize that art can't be quantified and codified, and that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder', but why is 'beauty' so evidently standard? Isn't that what we are afraid of? Isn't the idea to undermine the machine? Aren't we just part of the machine we try to undermine when it's just same same same??? Isn't the idea to prevent us all from being mindless automatons, striking us with something novel and new to kind of expose the hazards of stagnation?? Jar us people. Try something new. That "newness" isn't anything I've necessary said above -- just something new to you; something new to the world. SuShI_hp: 18th Feb 2006 - 01:30 GMTdoes anyone know pest in cmr or bles i met them not to long ago there fuckin sick cisco: 20th Feb 2006 - 00:09 GMTwhats up to all the krews.mtk,bd,hd,ic,cf,fb.stddk,and every body else.keep the graff up fuck dallas pigs.dont let them stop us from what we do best ink 2: 20th Feb 2006 - 00:12 GMThey dallas greffers keep up the crime.holla at u later.mtk2006.fuck the beef lets get together and take over the city.c u on the 1 and 2s.long live mtk. REWD: 20th Feb 2006 - 06:12 GMTi cant wait to goto jail for the highfive incident, someone help me, i'm goin down...... :( REWD: 20th Feb 2006 - 06:15 GMTyo by the way that cat pizza fucked me over hard core.......we got in a wreck which almost ripped my hand off and that cat ran and left me bleeding to death........i'm gonna fucking kill that son of a bitch......look out pizza i got mad homies wanting to fuck you up Paulm: 20th Feb 2006 - 13:50 GMTThe more time they get the better, less time spent degrading society
REVOLT: 22nd Feb 2006 - 22:39 GMTI'm with you all... Fuck dem laws we ain't killin nobody and shit. I ain't much compared to all y'all other taggers but I'm out there. I, hittin' up, not only with graffiti, but I'm moving to stencil work and stickers, along with my other thirty or forty other names (I lost count). I also do characters and whoever Chemicals is, big ups to you man! That's some clean ass shit. I'd seen your signature around but Ididn't know you were the one doing that other shit. I also do some shit like that so if I ever meet you, I say we do a piece. Guy McLaren: 23rd Feb 2006 - 05:30 GMTBut still, graffitti defaces buildings, costs big bucks to remove and I see in africa now fuckwits are starting to deface natural phenomena like rock faces and stuff.
motown fenskee: 24th Feb 2006 - 05:20 GMTcheaa fuck da system we gonn take over, i agree wild eddie 2 what u said it was like a punch in my face but true im gonn try and expand my art fuck da pigz peace and im out. detroit destructive snfkru
BASICk POFm: 25th Feb 2006 - 02:09 GMTDon't get cought up in graff shit nigga be smart. From the great legend himself and be carefull startin new krews a lot people will take u out b4 u ever come up bigz : 27th Feb 2006 - 21:12 GMThahahaha rewd u know ima fuckin help u woop that nigga pizza weak ass bitch Enk: 28th Feb 2006 - 18:36 GMTwe did just get started we bein doing our shit...we down with rhd, mc...other crews SuShI_hp: 28th Feb 2006 - 23:20 GMTcisco ive seen your shit in in plano its every where mtk is pretty cool to i saw your throw up at eisenbergs
SuShI_hp: 28th Feb 2006 - 23:32 GMTrewd your a awsome writer and also wernt you and pizza really cool its stupid hed just fuck you over like that the reason i thought you guys were cool you wrote ptc pizza tacos crew next to some of your shiton dallas police hopefully youll find pizza sike hp/ntk: 1st Mar 2006 - 00:21 GMTyo was up sushi hey cisco i saw yo shit up at eisenburgs it was tite hheehehe you wont be readin this yo ass is in jail hehehe! well is it true that they let soler out its tite personaly i think soler is the best in dallas my opinion
LOGIX COMM: 4th Mar 2006 - 14:28 GMTThey're still doing graffiti? and in Dallas? (chuckles) REVOLT: 4th Mar 2006 - 18:07 GMTHey has anyone seen that artcle about SEKT on the observer? "Could a tagger really be public enemy number 1?" The biggest ups to you, your shit is now really fukin everywhere!
flash: 6th Mar 2006 - 05:45 GMT"Hey has anyone seen that artcle about SEKT on the observer? "Could a tagger really be public enemy number 1?" The biggest ups to you, your shit is now really fukin everywhere!" ... yeah. sekt is the biggest name in dallas graffiti, they want him real bad. all of this cracking down on graff in dallas is taking its toll, the chief of police is making it on of his main objectives to take down as many big graff writers as he can. sucks real bad. flash: 6th Mar 2006 - 05:49 GMTi saw the high five shit pizza and rewd did. i didnt know they were beefin, but personally i get down with pizza's style. its sick as hell. don't be fightin between each other, the dallas graff scene needs as many allies as we can get. stay up for real, and fuck the police
ERBEN_HP_RBK_CP: 11th Mar 2006 - 05:27 GMT
man i oved this mural until some jack off bought the building and painted it ovuh. ERBEN_HP_RBK_CP: 11th Mar 2006 - 05:28 GMThaha my grandparents knew ozone or formerly called mosquito.that just krack me up.he lived next too em ERBEN_HP_RBK_CP: 11th Mar 2006 - 05:32 GMTmac: who was that little 16 yr old that got busted **R@Ti0**: 18th Mar 2006 - 20:42 GMThow can writting on walls add up to 2 years in prison and 100,000$ in damage it just dosent make sense! its fucking paint. and to all the people who think all tags look the same go jerk off. thats like saying all musics the same or all of pecossos work is identical. graffiti is goes back into the roman days and is apart of americans history. theres no use juging these brilliant minds like sorlar or rewd _ unless they suck like the crew cf. SuShI_hp: 19th Mar 2006 - 04:22 GMTerben you need to come over like you use to your dad just hates me hit me up to go paint when your at your moms house tik...dems: 20th Mar 2006 - 22:06 GMT"theres no use juging these brilliant minds like sorlar or rewd _ unless they suck like the crew cf."... whoa, now that's unexpected. [previous] :: [next] |
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