A serial graffiti artist living in Wyoming And spray painted “Ciga” to public and private property Court records show the suspect has been sought again across the country for a decade; This time it’s Cody.

Marc Meadowcroft, 28, Cheyenne’s sentence could be up to 10 years in prison if this time he is caught and convicted. He is charged with one count of aggravated property damage.

Meadowcroft made headlines in the Boston Globe and other outlets in 2015 after vandalizing two old cars on display in the city the previous year. rising bubble letters his signature label “Ciga”.

In the months between the crime and Meadowcroft’s arrest, police received reports of further incidents. “Cigarette” It’s popping up on people’s private property all over Boston.

Meadowcroft was finally caught And He admitted his guilt.

But he was accused of vandalism in 2016 and again in 2018.

Police arrested him near his girlfriend’s Lower Manhattan home in 2021 He is suspected of having written “Ciga” at least five times all over New York City, including a Times Square billboard and a Chinatown parking meter. Yahoo News reported.

Now he is being sought again.

Park County authorities issued a warrant for Meadowcroft’s arrest on Halloweenand tThe local jail doesn’t list him. The Cody Police Department did not respond to a voicemail request for comment.

Midnight in Cody

The investigation began on the morning of Oct. 29, when Cody Police Department Officer Garret Rothleutner responded to a man who reported that someone had spray-painted a “cigarette” on his fence the night before, according to an evidentiary affidavit filed in the case.

In the affidavit, Rocky Mountain Discount Liquor presented a video recording of the event; In this video, a 2000s Chevy Silverado 1500 extended cab, silver two-tone truck is seen pulling into the liquor store’s drive-thru exit around midnight.

The officer added that a chrome toolbox was found in the bed of the truck.

According to the document, the video shows a person wearing a gray hoodie, gray pants, and white sneakers exiting the vehicle and spray-painting blue graffiti on the mesh covering the fence: a 1.5-meter-high, 25-meter fence. long “cigarette”.

Rothleutner later learned that a brick building in the area had also been tagged, he wrote in his affidavit.

A police sergeant stopped the Chevy matching The officer added that he made the statement throughout the night and saw a can of spray paint and a clown mask in the passenger seat of the truck.

Body camera footage reveals gray-clad man alone in truck. The document identifies the driver as Marc Meadowcroft.

Investigators also found the word “cigarette” spray–Rothleutner wrote that the step between the Conoco Country Store and the Boot Barn was painted purple. The affidavit says the store’s security camera video shows a silver Chevy with a chrome toolbox in the bed, and also says the gray-clad man spray-painted the step while fueling his truck in the middle of the night.

in the sunlight

Also on Oct. 29, Cody police responded to Sunlight Sports. 6-feet wide, 4The 100-foot-tall “cigarette” adorned a tawny storage trailer.

Sunlight Sports co-owner Wes Allen told Cowboy State Daily he didn’t know many details about the incident, only that he had to pay to have the trailer repainted. Allen said it was a semitrailer carrying the store’s winter equipment.

He said he hopes authorities can catch and stop the graffiti vandal.

While at Sunlight, investigators learned there was more graffiti on the road three more buildings and three Cody City dumpsters. — They all said “ciga” with black spray paint, the affidavit states.

He’s Here, He’s There

Rothleutner receives National Data Exchange report from FBI HE The officer said in his affidavit that Denver police caught Meadowcroft tagging him as “Ciga” in 2016. In 2023, the city of Miami, Florida arrested Meadowcroft and seized several cans of spray paint after passersby saw a man marking an abandoned building.

Rothleutner’s statement also references a March 13, 2015 Bostone Magazine story detailing the trolley incident.

Rothleutner charges the vandalism with aggravated property damage, concluding that the cost of cleaning and replacing the fences would cost the city and affected residents more than $1,000.

Clair McFarland can be reached at [email protected].