Police are seeking an Anchorage man accused of spraying dozens of sites around the city with graffiti, causing more than $10,000 of damage since last August.
Adrian Corral, 24, is charged with 37 counts of criminal mischief. Five of the charges are Class-C felonies.
Sean Keating, a patrol officer for Anchorage Police Department, started investigating a series of graffiti incidents with the signature "TEKER" last August, according to police.
Homes, businesses, street signs and an array of other surfaces. - mostly downtown and in east Anchorage - have been sprayed with graffiti, including that signature. The result was an estimated $10,300 in property damage.
"It's pretty tedious," says Dani Myren, APD spokeswoman. "With each tag, the officer had to document it, write a report and follow up.
"It's a pretty involved process, but the officer was tenacious."
Keating caught a break a couple weeks ago, when officers responded to the Park Strip to reports of a man passed out wearing a red shirt. It said "TEKER" on the back. The officers took a picture of Corral at the scene that Keating believes matches a man caught in surveillance video of Tudor Bingo, one of the sites that was vandalized.
Police describe Corral as a white adult male, approximately 5-foot-9-inches and 135 pounds, with short brown hair and brown eyes.
Anyone with information about his location is asked to call police dispatch at 907-786-8900. To remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at 907-561-STOP (7867) or www.anchoragecrimestoppers.com.