‘Prolific graffiti vandal’ faces 8 felonies in Portland

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A man described as a “prolific graffiti vandal’ now faces eight felonies after his Northeast Portland home was searched Tuesday morning,

Investigators began looking into Gabriel Rodriguez-Lee months ago, Portland police said. He was arrested in October 2023 for a large OMEGA tag in North Portland and having a gun. He pleaded guilty to the gun charge and was put on a year probation in November.

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Early Tuesday, authorities used the search warrant at his home near NE 11th and Skidmore and allegedly found “hundreds of iterations of the OMEGA tag.”

Rodriguez-Lee now faces eight felony counts of first-degree criminal mischief plus a misdemeanor criminal mischief charge.

No further information is available at this time.

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