Police: Lake View High Graffiti Damage Estimated to be $15,000

 

SAN ANGELO, TX — The Lake View High School graffiti damage is estimated to cost taxpayers $15,000, San Angelo police said Monday afternoon.

San Angelo police investigated the damage early Saturday morning. They reported the graffiti was gang-related, with insignia of a gang called “Southside 25.”

The same kind of graffiti was discovered on eight school buses at the Texas Leadership Charter Academy (TLCA). In addition, a private vehicle was vandalized with the same style graffiti in the 900 block of LBJ Dr.

Police said they have video surveillance recordings that show a light-colored four-door sedan with a third brake light. Three suspects were videoed and appeared to be wearing light and gray-colored clothes, hoodies, and athletic shoes.

Police are seeking information about these suspects and their identity.

If you have information that make help apprehending these suspects, please contact San Angelo Police at (325) 481-2718. To remain anonymous, tip online at http://bit.ly/SAPDTips247 or by text: text TIP SAPD to 888777 and follow the prompts.

Tipsters can also send a direct message to the Department’s Facebook and Twitter pages; facebook.com/SanAngeloPoliceDepartment and twitter.com/sanangelopolice.

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How about we have a volunteer paint day one Saturday in May to repaint where the vandals painted. Instead of paying a paint company to come in and repaint. Simply buy the 5 gal buckets of paint color you can do color match at any home improvement store. I would be willing to come out Saturday morning an repaint. the maintenance already covered the graffiti so it just need a new coat merging into the old. It would save the district money, and get the community involved.

I do have to wonder about the cost involved in painting over some graffiti... First of all, doesn't the c.s.c.d. have a graffiti response team? The only costly factor there, besides the taxes we already put into that system, would be the different paints that would be needed... I'm not sure if s.a.i.s.d. is legally bound to contract the work out or not but I would imagine that that's not the case... Maybe spending that much to paint will bring some sort of deduction at tax time or be a use of certain allocated funds that need to be spent to continue justification of the receipt of those funds? Although I've not educated myself in this matter specifically, I do know that 15,000 is a steep cost for painting. I know that we've a slough of men and women on probation who could do our community a service here... It would probably not be something s.a.i.s.d. would approve of though due to the backgrounds of the probated? That could be mitigated by having them do it on a Saturday, I do know that they perform community service on Saturday's... If that's somehow a no go still, then let's go with Trusteria's recommendation for a paint day in May.

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