Borf(s) Nabbed

Photo by Rob Goodspeed, editor of DCist.

From Inspector Diane Groomes of the Metropolitan Police Department, Third District:

MIDNITE UNITS ARRESTED "BORF" - the infamous graffiti artist that has plagued Parkview, Columbia Heights, Pleasant Plains, Ledroit Park, etc etc

At 0315 hours - officers who were on routine patrol were flagged down at V Street/Georgia Avenue when a citizen reported that there were a group of guys spraypainting buildings on 7th Street -- the officers pulled up and observed three subjects spraypainting and the subjects took off running when officers approached -- the officers chased down all three subjects and caught them in the 2100 block of 9th Street NW.

Arrested:

Richard Lee - A[sian]/male from Great Falls, VA
John Tsombikos - W[hite]/male from Great Falls, VA (the main "borf")
John Doe - W[hite]/male WHO REFUSED ALL INFO

All were charged with Defacing private property
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For more on BORF, read this entry from the DCist archives.

KOMA and NORES on H Street.

Reminds me of NORES and KOMA who defaced a goodly part of the city back in 2002-2003--both are Maryland residents. See this reprint of a Post article: "2 Charged With Graffiti: Md. Men Spray-Painted in Much of D.C., Officials Say." (Unfortunately I don't have a copy of the photo that went with it.)

I think that if the Borfs are found guilty of the charges, they should be forced to clean all the graffiti they produced, and this should be televised in progress on DC City Government cable channels.

Photo by Rob Goodspeed, editor of DCist. What is it about suburbanists who come into the city to deface it? It's like suburban Detroiters taking cars to the city on Devil's Night and torching them for the insurance.

Borf at the Penn Medical Center, a converted art-deco theater on the 600 block of Pennsylvania Avenue S.E.