An 18-year-old man has been arrested for posting his graffiti spree on Facebook, police in western Canada's Manitoba province said on Tuesday.
The graffiti, which featured the same tag, started to appear last summer and photographs were posted on the popular social networking site, a Spokesman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in the city of Selkirk said.
A tag is the unique, stylized signature of the person who created the graffiti.
RCMP received numerous complaints about the graffiti that could be found on bridges, signs and businesses all over Selkirk, a city 35 kilometres northeast of provincial Winnipeg. The tag, which featured a bald-headed man with a toothy grin, also showed up in the nearby rural municipalities of St. Andrews and St. Clements.
Const. David Obirek said investigators got a break after someone spotted local images posted on Facebook, which made the police job much easier.
The man, from a nearby town, is not being identified because he was a youth at the time the graffiti was created, said Obirek.