GRANADA HILLS, TARZANA : 2 Graffiti Vandals Sentenced to Jail

An 18-year-old Granada Hills man has been sentenced to 70 days in jail for leaving a trail of graffiti across the northwest San Fernando Valley, while another teen-ager was sentenced to 90 days in jail for spray-painting a bus in Tarzana, the city attorney’s office announced Thursday.

Michael Adamar was sentenced Tuesday to 70 days in jail and 45 days of graffiti removal after he pleaded no contest to vandalism charges, said Mike Qualls of the city attorney’s office.

Adamar will be sentenced to an additional 230 days in jail if he fails to complete the graffiti removal requirement, Qualls said.

Also, Van Nuys Municipal Court Commissioner Mitchell Block placed Adamar on three years probation during which he will be prohibited from possessing any paint or markers, Qualls said.

Adamar allegedly belonged to a tagging crew called “Destroy Your Property,” prosecutors said.

Also this week, Block ordered Emiliano Hidalgo, 19, to serve 90 days in jail and three years probation for painting graffiti. Hidalgo had also pleaded no contest to vandalism charges.

Hidalgo was arrested after undercover Los Angeles police officers on the anti-graffiti detail watched him scrawl his tag on the window of a Metropolitan Transportation Agency bus at Reseda and Ventura boulevards, prosecutors said.