An 18-year-old man from the RM of St. Clements has admitted responsibility for graffiti images that have defaced bridges, signs, businesses and residential property in Selkirk and the surrounding area.<\/p>\n
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RCMP Const. David Obirek said large facial images began appearing in the area last summer.<\/p>\n
Police didn\u2019t have a suspect, but Obirek said a tip came in recently that photos of the graffiti were posted on a page on the social networking site Facebook.<\/p>\n
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“Taggers tend to have a style, a stamp, that identifies them apart from anybody else,” Obirek said.<\/p>\n
Investigators used the information from the tip identify a St. Clements man as a suspect.<\/p>\n
When officers confronted the young man, Obirek said, he admitted to defacing public and private property with the images when he was under the age of 18 years.<\/p>\n
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Instead of charging the man, he was referred to the Selkirk justice committee, which deals with young offenders considered to be a low risk to re-offend, Obirek said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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