Olympia police catch well-known graffiti artist in the act

A 27-year-old Olympia woman was arrested Friday after the Olympia Police Department received reports of a suspicious person on the roof of the Pizza Time building in the 100 block of Jefferson Street Northeast downtown.

Police arrived about 4 a.m. Friday and spotted the woman dressed all in black on top of the roof, leaning over the edge and writing a tag in large black and white letters. She then moved to another wall and did the same thing.

Lt. Paul Lower said police recognized the tag the woman spray painted as one they’d seen around Thurston County, mostly in high places, including an I-5 overpass.

Lower said the Olympia Fire Department came to assist officers in reaching the woman with a ladder. By the time OFD had arrived, the woman started climbing down pipes on the north side of the building. Police waited at the bottom of the pipes and arrested the woman.

She was booked into the municipal jail on suspicion of malicious mischief.

This story was originally published March 18, 2022 at 8:58 AM.

Ty Vinson

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Ty Vinson covers the City of Olympia and keeps tabs on Tumwater and other communities in Thurston County. He joined The Olympian in 2021. Before that, he earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism at Indiana University. In college, he worked as an intern at the Northwest Indiana Times, the Oregonian and the Arizona Republic as a Pulliam Fellow. Support my work with a digital subscription