A heartbroken vandal spraypainted his tag nearly twenty times around his girlfriend’s Queens neighborhood after a drunken spat so she’d be constantly reminded of his name, law enforcement sources said.
Mohamed Rasul scrawled his graffiti moniker, ‘Sonik,’ in bright, blue paint on homes, businesses, and telephone poles around Richmond Hill in the wake of the boozy Nov. 17 blowout, court documents said.
After investigators linked the graffiti to Rasul, 24, and arrested him on Friday, the lovelorn scofflaw copped to the spray spree, the records indicate.
“I’m sorry for what I’ve done,” he told police, according to the papers. “I was really drunk and mad at my girlfriend when I did that graffiti.”
The 106th Precinct celebrated the collar on social media, tweeting Friday, “#Sonik was just not quite fast enough!” in a nod to speedy video game icon Sonic the Hedgehog.
Rasul was hit with 18 counts each of criminal mischief and making graffiti.
He was held on $2,700 bail at his Saturday morning arraignment, said a spokeswoman for Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown.