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Destined to be dubbed the Bonnie and Clyde of the graffiti world, Danielle Bremner (tags: Utah, Dani, Erin) and her boyfriend Jim Clay Harper (tag: Ether) were both arrested for causing $100,000 in damages to city transit facilities, Newsday reports.
The Queens couple had reportedly fled to Europe for three months, "where they dined, partied - and tagged their way through 10 or so countries." So their legal problems aren't just in the city, allegedly France seeks to prosecute them. (Back in 2006 there were conflicting views on whether or not most of the city's taggers are domestic or European.) The 26-year-old Bremner was arrested after deboarding a flight from Europe in Chicago, while 23-year-old Harper was arrested at JFK--both on Tuesday night.
When Bremner is extradited back to New York she faces criminal mischief and burglary charges in a Manhattan indictment accusing them of tagging train yards in Inwood and Harlem. Harper was arraigned Wednesday, plead not guilty and was released. He and his lawyer could not be reached for comment.Bremner has been arrested before, both in Toronto and in Boston (where she is "wanted"). One source told the paper of Harper: "He's a big player. He just hasn't been caught. Now he has, and his status in the graffiti world will definitely go up."Sources said both suspects face further charges for a number of other acts of graffiti in all the boroughs, except Staten Island - including tagging 8 subway cars in Manhattan and about 20 acts of vandalism in the Bronx.
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I wish I could flee to Europe for 3 moths to dine and party!
*months duh
cool...
now go arrest shepard "athsma" fairey/giant for all his crap around the world
Good! Throw them in prison for a good, long time so the only things they can tag are their own three walls. Let's see how their newly raised status will help them in the slammer.
if they're white I surely hope their time is jail is unpleasant.
They will probably a big punishment to make an example. Make the fine fit the crime. Give them community service and be done with it.
they should only penalize graffiti artists if their work sucks.
do these idiots deserve to spend time in jail? no.. but fines + community service sounds good to me.
I'm pleasantly surprised to see that this posting doesn't refer to them, at any point, as "artists"
I like their tags actually.
It's fun though...
jail time is excessive. give them community service, and/or fine them both, but putting them in jail doesn't sound right.
and their work doesn't suck!
open season on tag i guess.
buket and revok on the west got busted too.
miss 17 is the queen bomber anyway.
the couple that sprays together pays together
Put them in Williamsburg with a bucket of pinesol and a brillo pad and make them scrub every bit of graffiti off every wall on every block.
Put them in with the general population in Rikers.
Leave them in Europe.
I always liked UTAH's work Good places nice scale
Okay, I was just riding my bike yesterday and I saw new UTAH outlines in a few different places that were NOT there the day before. I have photographs at the EXACT locations to prove this.
Now, it says she was in custody in Chicago as she flew there from Europe. How in the world is this possible? They must have the wrong person in this case. Or, there could be more than one.
This brings up a good question. How can you accuse people of doing graffiti based on the name or writing on the wall? Anyone could do it. As "Artists", you have the talent to copy other's work exactly as it would be. The only way they will have anything on her is if they have video of her doing actually doing the crime that shows her face clearly.
The fact that this story got so blown up in the media (Only because the person suspected of doing this is a female) will only make the judge take it more serious.