A Canyon Country man was in custody Friday after a sheriff’s detective caught him spraying graffiti underneath a Canyon Country bridge, authorities said.
Detective Jeff Burrow of the Sheriff’s Santa Clarita Valley Station spotted a man in the act of spray-painting underneath a Sierra Highway bridge near Sandy Drive round 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department reported.
Area patrol units were summoned to the area, where 23-year-old Ricardo Gomez had sprayed the letters “ROVE,” according to Shirley Miller, public information officer for the Sheriff’s Santa Clarita Valley Station.
Gomez was arrested on suspicion of felony vandalism and admitted to similar tagging incidents dating back to February 2015, Miller said. The prior incidents are estimated to have caused more than $10,000 in graffiti damage to the City of Santa Clarita, Miller said.
Gomez, who is being held in lieu of a $50,000 bond, will make his first court appearance Friday in San Fernando, according to county sheriff’s inmate records.
—City News Service