LA County Sheriff’s Dept photo
VENICE (CNS) – Authorities today released a security image of a man
wanted as a suspect in the tagging of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in
Venice.
“Just before Memorial Day of this year citizens in the area noticed …
graffiti done to the wall,” said Ramon Montenegro of the sheriff’s Transit
Policing Division.
“The lead detective on the case, Detective Michael Thibodeaux, is a
graffiti and tagging crime expert,” Montenegro said. “Using several
investigative techniques he’s been able to identify the main monikers on the
wall that honors service personnel killed in the line of duty during the
Vietnam War.
“NONER, PHEB, SNAKE, and LITER, appear to be the names that created the
most damage to the wall,” Montenegro said.
Thibodeaux discovered that the NONER moniker was linked to a tagging
group based in the Bay Area, Montenegro said.
Detectives circulated a photo of a person believed to be NONER. The
person in the photo appears to be a white or Hispanic male. The photo depicts a
person tagging a vehicle with a tag that appears to match one from the memorial
wall, Montenegro said.
“NONER may travel between the Los Angeles area and the Bay Area
regularly,” Montenegro said.
Anyone with information on NONER or any of the other suspects believed
to be connected to the crime was urged to call Transit Policing Division
detectives at (888) 950-SAFE, or Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-TIPS.
