The party kids over at cap to the hill stepped over the line today, stumbling off their comfortable bar stools just far enough to make a visit to Broadway's Museum of Mysteries, and worse, writing about it.

This is against the rules. Quirky neighborhood discoveries are our beat. My only choice is to fight back. Thursday night is cap to the hill's happy hour at Moe Bar from 5p-8p. I'll be there at straight up 5 geekin it up and making c to the h sorry they ever walked outside the friendly confines of Pike Pine. Join me. Let's teach these brats a lesson.

Also, I want to talk with c to the h about their liberal stance on graffiti and tagging -- look what it's done to my child.

After a day of joy and hope for the future, here's a look back at the last week's activities in Capitol Hill's shadows. Items are culled from Central District News, SPD reports and, on occasion, other media outlets. Bonus lowlight -- this report of an attempted home break-in on Sunday, Jan 11.

Capitol Hill Police Activity for Jan 12 trough Jan 16 - CDN Scanner Reports

Monday Jan 12
2:53PM  - 1300 E Madison St  - Narcotics Activity  - Several people doing drugs under the bus shelter

Tuesday Jan 13
2:25PM  - 900 19th Ave E  - Suspicious Circumstance  - Man going through a yellow purse. White male, 40s, 6'2

Wednesday Jan 14th
5:49PM  - 417 Broadway E  - Shoplifting  - 15-year-old boy in custody at QFC. His parents are refusing to pick him up.

Thursday Jan 15th
4:33PM  - Bellevue and E Pine St  - Vandalism  - Three men tagging a building, hispanic males, teens, dark hoodies. Update: the men are contracted to paint over the graffiti

9:45PM - 100 block of Broadway...

The case against Long Hoang Le, the 20-year-old man we named as the suspect in the Kerse tribute tagging in Pike/Pine last month, is now with the King County Prosecutors office, spokesperson Dan Donohoe confirmed for us this week. But it's still not clear if Le will be hit with the felony-level malicious mischief charge authorities initially were considering for the incident. From Donohoe: "There has been no decision regarding charges. The case is still under review."

The suspect arrested in the Kerse tribute tagging in Pike/Pine is a 20-year-old man named Long Hoang Le, Seattle Police Department confirms. He was booked early Sunday morning and released Monday night as the investigation of "malicious mischief" continues. Thanks to help from Scott at Central District News and Tracy over at the West Seattle Blog in tracking down the info.

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SPD is using its fancy new blog to tout the collar of a 'prolific' tagger allegedly responsible for graffiti on "multiple buildings, including several car dealerships, and several businesses in the areas of 700 East Pike, 700 East Pine and 900 East Pike street."

Report sez the 20-year-old suspect was out to mark the recent death of Bay Area graffiti legend Kerse BTM and was caught in the act early Sunday morning. Hopefully they don't try to nail the kid for all the Kerse-work they find out there on the streets because this gentleman has company.

Will give SPD a call to see what else I can find out.

UPDATE: SPD confirmed that the suspected tagger is being charged with a felony level count of malicious mischief. From my understanding, if there was less than $1,500 damage, maximum sentence would be around 5 years. You can read more about the charge on the Avvo legal site. Also, no specific location of where he was apprehended.

Kerse tag on 10th Ave<...

The artist says she's going to restore the Obama mural:


She also notes that the tagger seems to be enjoying the 'negative attention.' Agreed. Will write about the restoration. Tagged again? Silence here.

Tagged

This tag on a power pole at 19th Ave E and Roy is a sad and odd cultural artefact. It appears to mark the death of 15-year-old Quincy Coleman, gunned down Halloween night in a shooting near Garfield High. There's another on the back alley wall of the Russian Cultural Center across the street.

Not to become all tagging, all the time here on this site, but this tag, in particular, warrants note because authorities contend that Hill tagging is not gang related. Is this how real gang bangers say goodbye? Is this how wannabe punks do it? Ironic hipsters?

The Obama-Barbarella mural graffiti episode shined a little light into the dark alleys of tagging culture putting the mural artist face-to-face, or e-mail to e-mail with taggers.

The exchange brings to mind my contact with a tagger from this summer via Facebook. Through a series of tips, I tracked down the name of a man who lives on Capitol Hill who, a few who claimed to know him said, was the notorious Syrup tagger.

While his profile was covered with graffiti applications and graphics, my interaction was less than fruitful. Here's the Facebook back and forth from this summer:

do you tag?
Between XXXXX and You
 
Chs Blog
July 23 at 10:36pm
Sorry if I've got you confused with somebody else :)
 
XXXXX
Add as Friend
July 30 at 2:55pm
Report Message
are you a snitch? what kinda question is that. i use axe bodyspray.
 
Chs Blog
July 30 at 3:36pm
Not a snitch. I write about Capitol Hill and thought you -- if you're the same XXXXX people have told me about -- might tell me about why you tag. Some pissed off people gave me your name but...

We wrote about the idiotic tagging that destroyed the Barbarella space warrior princess mural near 12th and John. The Slog has a picture of your neighbor Shelly reclaiming the mural space for another warrior.

Nice work, Shelly.

Some dipshit thought it would be cool to tag over the garage door space mural on E. John Street heading up the Hill toward 15th. The response to the vandalism is this "NO" sign and lots of Sharpie-written notes expressing sadness for the space warrior princess's passing.

Thanks a million to neighbor ERIK98122 for this contribution to the CHS flickr pool. Like Erik, we wonder. Will she return?