Graffiti menace gets 60 days in jail

Posted by Staten Island Advance June 18, 2007 3:10PM
Categories: News
A 20-year-old Staten Island man believed to be the North Shore's number-one graffiti vandal will spend sixty days in prison after pleading guilty today in Staten Island Criminal Court.

Russell Farriola, a West Brighton resident who cops believe bombed the North Shore with the tag "Aloe," entered a guilty plea to a misdemeanor count of making graffiti and one count of disorderly conduct for exposing himself to a woman in Silver Lake park in an unrelated case.

Farriola will also serve three years' probation.

"Russell Farriola was a menace to the entire North Shore community of Staten Island as he senselessly vandalized private and public property," District Attorney Daniel Donovan said in a press release. "I hope this guilty plea, and Mr. Farriola's upcoming jail time will serve as a stark warning to any aspiring graffiti vandal that there are serious consequences for this type of behavior.

-- Contributed by Peter N. Spencer