The Tucson Police Department has arrested a suspect for the unpleasant vandalism that temporarily disfigured the historic Fox Theatre last year. 

In the evening of April, 26, 2015, someone thought it was a good idea to graffiti the Fox’s front doors. Photos of the incident began emerging the next morning.

It ended up costing $3,000 to clean up, according to TPD.

Earlier this month, two officers with TPD got tips on a possible suspect. They then corroborated the information with other agents in a graffiti investigation unit who were after a person responsible for other graffiti crimes throughout the city and Pima County—a total of $1,600 in damages, TPD says in its Facebook age.

On Feb. 4, 21-year-old Xavier Chavez was apprehended and booked into the Pima County jail on a class 5 felony charge of criminal damage, according to TPD’s Facebook.

Updated on Wednesday, Feb. 24 at 11:45 a.m.:
The word “asshole” was removed from the headline due to popular demand.

This article appears in Feb 4-10, 2016.

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11 replies on “Tucson Police Arrests Suspect Who Possibly Vandalized the Fox Theatre”

  2. Reading comprehension, Wise-guy: $3k at the Fox. Other graffiti crimes totaling $1600.

    Glad they caught the punk.

  3. At this point the TW called the suspect an ahole and you have convicted him not knowing any facts? And comprehension bothers you?

  4. Fair point Rat T. The headline likely should not have made any statement towards this individual who has not been proven guilty and should have focused the anger rightfully on the crime.

    Modified headline:

    Tucson Police Caught a Person of Interest Who May Have Been the Asshole That Vandalized the Fox Theatre

  5. Now that’s my kind of headline POI. Maybe trade “caught” for apprehended or questioned.

    Thanks again to donors that financed repairs. It is a local treasure.

  6. While I’m happy they caught the person, I feel your language to describe the subject, rather offensive. No you didn’t hurt my feelings, I just found it offensive. You may want to think twice in future regarding your descriptive adjectives.

  7. Guy,

    You have to understand the TW is breaking new ground in the new journalism by using words like “asshole” and “scumbag” to describe accused evil doers or folks they disagree with. By new ground, not even BuzzFeed has gone as far as Taracena in loosening up its standards:

    “We have no qualms with publishing non-offensive — ‘casual use,’ if you will — profanity…if the tone and subject matter of a post warrant it,” said Emmy Favilla, the site’s copy chief. “Generally, though, we won’t use profanity in our headlines or deks — except in the rare instance where, say, we’re using a direct quote or official title of something in a hed or dek, in which case we’d use symbols in place of a few letters. Within the body of a story, though, we don’t use symbols to mask a profane word like ‘f—‘ or ‘s—‘ and we’ll just spell it out.”

    So let’s support Potty Mouth’s groundbreaking use of these insightful descriptions – in headlines -plowing new ground in reaching out to the masses. Our support will do wonders when her writing is considered for the Pulitzer Prize.

  10. The continuing degradation of quality and content in the Tucson Weekly can be directly attributed to Comrades Taracena and Safier.

    Excellent post by Rick Spanier.

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