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Suspected tagger arrested for allegedly causing more than $35k in damages

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Tony Rodriguez is suspected of scrawling his crew name “NSS” on block walls, poles, and buildings around Lancaster and Palmdale, with many of the taggings measuring more than eight feet tall and six feet wide, authorities said. (Photo courtesy LASD)
Tony Rodriguez is suspected of scrawling his crew name “NSS” on block walls, poles and buildings around Lancaster and Palmdale, with many of the taggings measuring more than eight feet tall and six feet wide, authorities said. (Photo courtesy LASD)

PALMDALE – An alleged tagger suspected of causing more than $35,000 in damages at more than 25 locations in Lancaster and Palmdale was arrested Thursday, authorities said.

Tony Rodriguez, also known as “Two Down” and “West,” was arrested after Lancaster detectives served a search warrant at an apartment complex in the 500 block of East Avenue Q-12 in Palmdale, according to Sgt. Brian Dunn of the Lancaster Sheriff’s Station.

The 28-year-old Palmdale resident is suspected of scrawling his crew name “NSS” and his moniker on block walls, poles and buildings around Lancaster and Palmdale, with many of the taggings measuring more than eight feet tall and six feet wide, according to Dunn.

(Courtesy LASD)
(Courtesy LASD)

Rodriguez is also suspected of tagging the interior of a vacant Lancaster business, Dunn stated.

When detectives served the felony vandalism warrant Thursday, they seized evidence that helped link Rodriguez to numerous tagged and damaged property around town, according to Dunn.

“During this investigation, detectives learned Mr. Tony Rodriguez was arrested by Palmdale deputies in April of 2014 for numerous prior tagging incidents,” Dunn stated. “In those tagging incidents, Mr. Rodriguez used the moniker “West.” He was convicted for felony vandalism charges and placed on felony probation for his past conviction.”

Rodriguez was booked at the Lancaster Sheriff’s Station jail Thursday with bail set at $20,000.

Lancaster detectives will be presenting this new case to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office for filing consideration, according to Dunn.

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71 comments for "Suspected tagger arrested for allegedly causing more than $35k in damages"

  1. he is probably obsessive with 14 year old boys who tag. and trying with his old ass to be cool

  2. I like the fingers thing but it is too bad we could not do that. I think a little CDC time with the big boys would do him some good.

  3. Do you dimwits understand how much intel you have give to the police? You have officially screwed your friends and families. They can track everyone of you back to your 20. You dumb s#!*s deserve to be put to sleep because you are so stupid. Oh, and pull your freaking pants up. They’re going to nail your a $$ to the wall.

  4. If he did $35k in damages his bail should have been at least $35k. It doesn’t matter whether these guys are home grown or have come up from LA they need to be stopped.

    If they are minors, the parents need to be held accountable. I don’t believe for a minute that the parents, or parent, of these kids don’t know what their little miscreants are doing. They probably have their tags around the house.

    Each time one of these guys are convicted their name, address and picture should be published so that the community can be on the lookout and hopefully shame them out of town.

    • Parents be held accountable???? When I was in my teens yeah I tagged and no my parents didn’t know..most taggers keep it a secret from their parents…Now I’m an adult and don’t support these taggers but I still don’t believe the parents should be held accountable for something that they don’t know..you may say they should know what their kids are up to yeah but people do things behind their parents back it don’t matter how involved a parent is teens will hide things

  5. I get it. I also tagged as a juvenile in LA back in late 80’s early 90’s. NBT NothingButTrouble. Look it up. As an adult tho, i dont want to see it in my neighborhood.

    • Yeah all the NBT’s turn into Trouble Gangster Crips (TCG) and beef it with them Rollin 60’s Crips and the East Coast Crips down in South L.A

  7. I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THIS CREW BUT AT LEAST THIS GUY PUTS IN WORK UGLY OR NOT SO WHAT AND MY COUSIN IS “BLAH” FROM THAT OTR HOF CULT CREWS IN L.A FORGET ABOUT HATING THATS ALL YOU LAMES OUT HERE IN THE A.V

    SHOUT OUT TO THE HOMIES “2MUCH”CRASH”HUFR”BONKERS”HAEL”
    R.I.P “TRIGZ”ERIE”EVAK”MORT”BATLE663”

  8. NOW HE IS COSTING THE TAX PAYERS 3 HOTS AND A COT PUT HIS ASS TO WORK ON A CREW CLEANING UP ALL THE MESS HIM AND OTHERS MADE AND IF HE IS A FLIGHT RISK BALL AND CHAIN BABY THE NEW BLING BLING

    • Since when did a cold baloney or prepackaged PB&J constitute two hots?

      He likely is working, in the jail, for non-existent wages.

      I’m confused about how he could be receiving those “3 hots & cot” and still be a flight risk, as well.

      You’ve really raised more questions than you’ve answered.

  9. Why do these losers have to invade our valley? I’m sick of all of them. Make this moron clean up his messes, then break his fingers. Sick of all these jerks polluting the AV.

    • You’d be surprised how many of these “losers” are high school kids. Lacking adult supervision.

      Break his fingers you say? Oh, Sharia.

      • Eric, Some have adult supervision who race to bail them out before the cops are done with the paperwork.

      • and Middle School kids, with parents who race to pick them up before the officers are done with the paperwork.

    • I wish that could be a ↗reality check↖ for them every time they attempt to deface someone’s property the spray can teaches them a finger lesson…

  10. 94PRIDE
    I call it in at least 3 times a week. The call is free and I will always be grateful for the Palmdale City Graffiti removers.

  11. Nssk is lame a** f**k.. Come down to LA and get handled….BTC (born to control) LEFTY……..
    CAILE PUTOS

    • WHATS UP TO THE BTC CREW

      MUCH LOVE TO THE HOMIE DUCK R.I.P (CSD BTC)

      THE HOMIES “JAYR”CRIE”

  12. NSS is a joke. They tried to be something back when I was in high school. Got shut down fast. They are a bunch of lames with no life’s. Let me guess. The guys running it r still the 2 brothers that look like twins lol. Grow up!!!!!

  13. NSS !!!! Never Shall Stop [removed] Pigs and all of your thoughts and feelings Never Seen Sober Never Stop Spraying

  14. its not art if you spray paint someone elses property, without permission,.it could be the mona lisa,. but if I didn’t want it on my wall its vandalism not art

          • Nope, it was a serious question. Some graffiti artists have online galleries. Often the pictures are collected from others that took the actual pictures and put in a gallery titled something like “Street Art I like”.
            Plus I have seen a few street artists decorate the inside wall of their garage over and over taking pictures of each work.

  15. This a-hole is damn near 30 year old and he’s out spray painting his name on walls lol. What an outstanding member of society. He should get a job at maaco and get paid for crappy spray jobs.

      • Oh sweetie, I’m not crap. I was all over the place for awhile. A didn’t run with a crew, I was solo and I took my time with my work. But of course a girl takes her time to make her work perfect.

    • In the first place he’s an OLD FART to be writing CRAP like that and if he is so Anxious to write on something he should write on his ASS. Second of all art is beautiful and there’s a statement but that CRAP looks like CHICKEN SCRATCH. A first grader can do better than that. Because of people like that they make our cities and community look bad.

      • 94PRIDE for the City of Palmdale. If you see it, call this number and the crew will be ut within two days. This is YOUR city and the only way to find pride in it is to help keep it clean. 94PRIDE is free and you do not have to leave your name.
        Roger, you are brave to write on here…Palmdale Police Department are incredibly awesome at getting guys like you and sadly, one day, that day will come for you. I don’t judge you but I just wish that you could understand how precious youe life is and wasting it in jail is sad. Your days will come to an end….this is how much I trust in our police department graffiti division. It is my hope that one day you will get your life together.

    • Way to lampoon a teenage girl’s writing, Joe. How old are you?

      How much work was that post of yours? Could you provide a greater rebuttal?

      • Eric, I am 57 years old. I spent almost 20 years cleaning up graffiti for the City of Palmdale. I’ve earned the right to make a joke about graffiti. Get over yourself.

  18. I say cut his damn hands off put him on the corner of ave K and 20th west with a LIBERTY TAX OUTFIT ON

  19. Good they need to catch more of these losers and ship them to LA. 28 years old and this is all he’s got to offer.

  20. What a piece of trash this guy is….and all of the other disgusting gutter scum out there with no regard for other people’s property. I hope he stays behind bars where he belongs.

    • we have a strict rule of not painting cars or citizens personal property just city walls and poles Nssk

      • If you have a strict rule why has Palmdale Pony youth Baseball been tagged so much, you are full of it. We have had to spend alot of money that we do not have to remove graffiti from our complex and that is money that could be spent fixing the fields or providing more safety equipment for our youth. Roger you are a low life and one day I hope to catch the person tagging our fields so we can prosecute and send their A** to jail

      • No he won’t it’s already his second offense on a felony count for tagging and violation of his probation… I’m guessing his minimum sentence if he’s luck will be 16 months with half. Anything over a year is prison time so he’ll be going up state, also the gang members in jail f**kin hate taggers, so we’ll see how much fun he has writing on the walls in there.

          • As an artist myself, I’m all for graffiti art, but your homie is 28 years old. If he whats to do his art. There’s a market for it in the world of art. Maybe he’s just a tagger,not a piecer with no real art abilities.

          • Roger, just cuz he bailed out… dont mean he won’t appear in front of da judge! He will answer up to the higher authority and pay do time and pay restitution.

          • Tony how do u know he bailed out you must be one of his hater ?? Mind your own business and contine with your miserable life and stop wishing the worst on ppl to make you feel better .. Loser

        • Why does it matter to you!?! Why don’t u get a life and stop worrying about others ppl problems !! Gang members also hate lil bit**es like you lame roger .. All up on his nuts

    • Someone should tag his house and see how he likes it. He lives here…

      TONY RODRIGUEZ
      Age: 28
      Address: 5XX E Avenue Q12 Apt 18
      City, State, Zip: Palmdale, CA 93550-2360
      Arrested for: 594(B)(1) Vandalism $5000 Or More

      • What kind of person are you to put up someone’s address and the av times allowing this !!! You can go to jail yourself for posting that

        • @Joan, Arrests, just like convictions are public record. However, if you notice, the whole address is NOT posted by Damien as the last two digits contain X’s.
          Aside from that, I believe it would be beneficial to the AV Communities, both cities, AV Times, AV Press and MOAH to have a Graffiti Competition or Contest for individuals who are into “tagging” as it will give them a public forum to demonstrate their eclectic and hip-hop art and possibly reduce the amount of vandalism done to walls in the community.
          For one who has watched trains pass through the Metrolink, I’ve seen some beautiful art on the rail cars but unfortunately it is still vandalism, which I do NOT condone.
          A PUBLIC FORUM is what these taggers want to express their creative artistic talents (gang taggers aside from the fact).
          Maybe our organization, AV-East Kern Second Chance will host or sponsor such an event for these talented individuals.

        • Joan, are you Tony’s mother and you’re concerned this is your address? Just as Michelle as commented, arrests are public records available to anybody.
          It’s time to start calling these guys out and run them out of town!

          • To Joan,
            I think Damien is hit the nail on the head. You are most likely Tony’s madre. ;)
            The only thing shady is your defensive rant against Damien outing tagger perp Tony.
            All you’ve contributed here is blasting Damien about what kind of character he is. I think that’s pretty damn clever and cool how Damien supplied some much needed info about lowlife Tony.
            I think taggers are animalistic in how they feel the need to deface properties and mark “their” territory like a savage beast.
            I hope that taggers mark/scribble paint and destroy their cribs and desecrate their enabling parent/parents properties along with their homies shacks, until their fingers, wrists, and hands become crippled. Bahaha

          • To Carla m I think the only low life here is you coming to this site to comment at 4 am why don’t u get a life a stop worrying about other ppl problems you obviously don’t know tony cause he does not live with his mom.. So do yourself a favor and stay off the pookie pipe and worry about yourself ..