Cary police arrest teen for gang graffiti
Published: Wed, Sep. 24, 2008 03:29PM
Modified Wed, Sep. 24, 2008 03:32PM
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closeLaw officers charged a teen today with spray-painting gang symbols on a Cary Police Department substation sign, court records show.
Police also think the youngster and several other people spray-painted gang signs on a parade of trash dumpsters, mailboxes and several buildings at an apartment complex, investigators reported.
The graffiti that marred the red, black and white police sign with the department emblem read, "PBS - 13," a reference to a Latino gang, Cary police Capt. Michael Williams said this afternoon.
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"It's from the Brownsiders," Williams said.
Williams said the substation is located inside the Briarcliff apartments on Wrenn Drive near Kildaire Farm and Maynard roads.
Omar Carachure-Garcia, 17, of Henderson has ben charged with one count of injury to real property, according to an arrest warrant filed this morning at the Wake County Magistrate's Office.
Police think Carachure and at least three other people were responsible for the gang tagging, Williams said. The graffiti party took place during the nighttime hours on Aug. 4, and police discovered it the following morning while patrolling the area.
"They found some and then they found some more and some more," Williams said.
Police were able to identify a street name in the graffiti and after an investigation obtained four warrants. So far, Carachure and one other person have been arrested, Williams said.
Police took Carachure-Garcia to the Wake County jail where he is being held under $1,000 bail, court records show.
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