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Utah Senate defeats anti-graffiti paraphernalia bill

Last updated Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 6:30pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- A bill aimed at making it illegal to possess any instrument, tool or device with the intent of vandalizing an area with graffiti has failed in the Senate.

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Anti-graffiti bill tentatively passes Utah Senate

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 4:42pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah senators are giving tentative approval to an anti-graffiti measure that prompted a hacker attack on the Salt Lake City Police Department's site.

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Police: Threatening graffiti not connected to Roy High bomb plot

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 4:19pm

ROY — Threatening graffiti found last year at Roy High and Roy Junior High schools are likely unrelated to a recent Roy High bomb plot, authorities said Monday.

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Suspected tagger not likely to land graphic design job

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 10:54am

OGDEN -- Next time, he may want to try using a resume.

Kenneth Nereim, 27, at Ogden High School was found by an Ogden police officer next to a fresh graffiti-tagged wall and holding a can of spray paint around 3 a.m. Saturday, according to a post on the police department's Facebook page.

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Threatening graffiti found in Roy High bathroom

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, November 11, 2011 - 5:10pm

ROY — Roy High School went on lockdown Thursday morning after officials discovered threats scrawled across walls and stalls in two girls’ bathrooms.

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Sherry Ferrin works on painting a mural with her grandchildren on the side of a parking structure at 23rd Street and Washington Boulevard in Ogden on Thursday. The vinyl painting celebrates the changes the city has made, including its attraction of top sporting activities. When complete, “Breaking Through” will depict a climber, a cyclist, a kayaker, a runner and a BMX biker. It’s the seventh mural in Ogden in a decade. (KERA WILLIAMS/Standard-Examiner)

Mural celebrates Ogden's 'Breaking Through' in outdoor recreation

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, October 22, 2011 - 11:02pm

OGDEN -- A mural celebrating Ogden's growing stature as a sports activities center is being painted on the side of a parking structure at 23rd Street and Washington Boulevard.

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(Courtesy photo) A bench at Roy Junior High School was spray-painted early Tuesday.

Roy Jr. High graffiti contains threats of 'bloodbath'

Jesus Lopez Jr. Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - 2:49pm

ROY -- Police are investigating spray-painted graffiti at Roy Junior High School as a potential hate crime, Police Chief Greg Whinham said Tuesday.

Somebody sneaked onto the grounds of the school, at 5400 S. 2100 West, early Tuesday and painted messages on the building and other items.

"The nature of the graffiti is such that it qualifies as hate speech, and we are investigating the possibility of charging the person with a hate crime," Whinham said. "Some of the messages alluded to doing harm to Christians."

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Graffiti at Roy Junior High School. Courtesy Photo

Roy school graffiti included 'veiled threats'

Jesus Lopez Jr. Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 3:34pm

ROY -- Vandals snuck onto the grounds of Roy Junior High School early Tuesday and spray painted messages on the building and other items.

By midmorning, crews from Weber County School District had cleaned almost all traces of the paint from trees, windows, brick walls and benches.

Weber School District spokesman Nate Taggart said the graffiti did not appear to be gang-related, but before it was cleaned up school resource officers from the Roy City Police Department took down information to compare it to other graffiti.

Taggart said much of the graffiti was nonsensica

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Box Elder grafitti takes on Nazi theme

Michael McFall Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, September 16, 2011 - 11:48pm

BRIGHAM CITY -- In his 25 years working law enforcement, Box Elder County Sheriff's Sgt. David Murphy had never heard of Nazi-related vandalism in his area -- until now.

On Wednesday evening, a complainant found a swastika and the word "Jew" painted in black on a traffic sign near 1500 North and 800 West. There was also the number 12 and a line painted on a stop sign at the railroad tracks nearby.

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Security cameras to keep watch over Fruit Heights park, city building

Dana Rimington Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, August 26, 2011 - 11:03pm

FRUIT HEIGHTS -- Four cameras have been installed at Nicholls Park in an attempt to prevent vandalism and graffiti there.

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Volunteers remove graffiti from school playground

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, August 18, 2011 - 9:20am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Volunteers have removed graffiti from a vandalized playground at a school for deaf and blind students.

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Preteens blamed for extensive vandalism in West Point

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, July 18, 2011 - 10:13pm

WEST POINT -- The homes in the cul-de-sac now show no visible signs of the vandalism that occurred early Saturday morning.

"We get reports of toilet papering with no damage all the time," said Davis County Sheriff's Sgt. Susan Poulsen. "But something of this magnitude is rare. The kids involved caused so much damage, and they were so young."

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Ogden sees less graffiti

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner correspondent Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, July 1, 2011 - 10:41pm

OGDEN -- As the temperatures rise, graffiti is becoming a bigger presence in parks around Weber County.

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Ogden stabbing suspect faces slew of charges

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Wednesday, May 4, 2011 - 9:45pm

OGDEN -- The man charged with stabbing another man who tried to interrupt his graffiti work also lost his patience with his arresting officers, police say.

In all, John Edward Gallegos, 20, faces a total of eight counts, from attempted murder to defacing public property, all stemming from his arrest last month.

Gallegos is accused of stabbing a 40-year-old man four times after the man confronted Gallegos and several friends as they were spray-painting graffiti on the restrooms at Lester Park, at 24th Street and Jefferson Avenue, on April 16.

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