Writing's on the wall for graffiti guerrilla
Writing's on the wall for graffiti guerrilla Notorious S.F. tagger hit with $20,000 fine
Cecilia M. Vega, Chronicle Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
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Carlos Romero left his spray-painted graffiti marks around San Francisco for years, tagging everything from fences and walls to street signs and trash cans with such monikers as CREAM and QUESO (which in Spanish means cheese).
And it wasn't just dairy products he had an affinity for. When police linked Romero to one tag name, city officials said, he would simply switch to another, and in addition to CREAM and QUESO he left a trail of COMA, LAFER and MELOH up and down his favorite thoroughfares, namely bustling Mission Street and Ocean Avenue.