Tagger thrown in jail for 4 years

Cyrus Yazdani, a 26-year-old San Jose State graduate, gained a near-cult following after a YouTube video was posted of him vandalizing a sign 20 feet above the busy 101 Freeway.

"Buket," the daredevil tagger who gained Internet notoriety for his brazen, daylight tagging of a sign over the 101 Freeway and vandalism of a Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus, was sentenced Thursday to three years and eight months in state prison.

Cyrus Yazdani, a 26-year-old San Jose State graduate who has developed a near-cult following, was on probation after pleading guilty in December to 32 felony vandalism counts.

In July, he pleaded no contest to one count of felony vandalism and accepted financial responsibility for five vandalism incidents. Four of the counts were dismissed Thursday. Yazdani must pay $117,196 in restitution.

Los Angeles County sheriff's transit investigators arrested Yazdani in May after Buket tags appeared on the 7th Street and Cesar Chavez bridges and in the 4200 block of South Broadway.

Sheriff's officials said Yazdani was found in possession of scribers, which are used in tagging. He also had paint splatter on his clothing.

In December, after pleading guilty, Yazdani was sentenced to 10 months in county jail, 256 hours of graffiti removal duty and five years' formal probation. He was released from jail based on credit for time served.

That case stemmed from a tagging spree between 2005 and 2007, during which Yazdani sprayed his tags on buses, freeway walls and overpasses, as well as the concrete lining of the Los Angeles River, authorities said.

Yazdani became something of an Internet sensation when he plastered his Buket "bomb" 20 feet above the busy 101 Freeway near Melrose Avenue -- vandalism that was captured on videotape and posted with a rap soundtrack on YouTube and numerous tagger-related blogs.

Another daylight attack, which also was videotaped, appeared to show Buket applying his moniker to an MTA bus as passersby and passengers watched in surprise.

A YouTube video that captured both tagging exploits has had more than 450,000 views. But the notoriety also got the attention of sheriff's transit investigators, who arrested Yazdani in May.

Sheriff's officials said they had evidence that Yazdani had marked hundreds of freeway overpasses, concrete walls and transit buses throughout California and southern Nevada.

Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies and officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers identified at least 20 Buket scrawlings along a stretch of the river spanning a couple of miles, which caused an estimated $60,000 in damage.

 

Should not be out vandalizing stuff, he should pay back the money needed to remove the paint.

 

the difference between vandalism and art is permission

 

101 freeway.. .Oh yeah thats an eye sore.. wtf..

 

...and this is in this forum because?

 

forum vandals..

 

...they get bored after a while don't they?

 

didnt used to need to be a member to start a thread here..?

damn that sentence looks funny?... grammar assistance please..

 

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taggers should get cattle tags punched into their ears

 

im sure some one thinks they are fashionable..

 

The geezer in action.
http://www.goldmic.com/video/war-4-buket-tko-101-freeway/8004

 

I was hoping he'd fall

 

That tagger might be shite but...In a strange twist of fate I found this site while looking him up (I was bored): http://coat.ncf.ca/

It's not an American site but Canada is near America, right?
So it's kinda about Americans attacking.
Back on topic.

 

you mean the 51st state.
theres not alot known about the tagger. hes known amongst other taggers, and cops, but thats about it. he was all over local california news though. i suppose they took it serious as they arrested some other guy they thought was him. they raided his house too, both the wrong guy, and the actual tagger.

 

he does know the Pirates baseball team is the worst team in the nfl.. even I know that..

 

I thought the UK was that!

Thanks, but I didn't need to know that.

 

had one of these almost scare the crap out me once near an airport ....riding a four wheeler and did not hear it approach ...but sure felt it when it passed over me at about 100 feet

 

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