Posted on 11/13/2009 6:11:29 PM PST by george76
Calling him the oldest tagging suspect they have ever captured, Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies arrested a 74-year-old Los Angeles man for allegedly putting "slap tags" on the inside of Metropolitan Transportation Authority buses.
For the last seven months, deputies assigned to the Special Problems unit of the Sheriff's Transit Bureau have been trying to determine the identity of an "older" vandal who had been placing orange and black "Who Is John Scott?" stickers on buses in Baldwin Hills and other areas concentrated on the Westside of Los Angeles.
Deputies involved in a saturation patrol this morning at the downtown 7th and Metro Center subway station encountered the septuagenarian suspect, later identified as 74-year-old John Scott...
Ruble said Scott was caught with stickers in his pockets as well as a black brief case, which appears to be similar to a case that is pictured on the whoisjohnscott.com website.
"Who am I? John Scott -- "The mystery exists no more,"
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
It took 7 months for the cops to figure his name is John Scott.
Shouldn’t they be arresting real criminals? Sheesh...
Do you know how much it cost the tax payers for a city worker to remove those stickers?
No idea... not as much as their light rail system? heh
No more than it costs the taxpayer for that city worker to sit on his ass.
Now we know where most of the Stimulus went.
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