Four Teens Busted in Boston

Boston police say they seized 41 cans of aerosol spray paint from four teens busted in the Back Bay early yesterday morning for expressing their inner Rembrandts on private property.
Their hands, clothes and shoes allegedly spattered with evidence of their crimes - and the alleyway between Boylston and Newbury Streets still rank with paint fumes - Alexander Reilly, 18, of Boston, Nathaniel Lounder, 17, of Keene, N.H., and two 16-year-olds from Cumberland, Maine, and Stoddard, N.H., were arrested shortly before 4 a.m. They were charged with destruction of personal property and damage to property by graffiti.
Reilly and Lounder are expected to be arraigned today in the adult session of Boston Municipal Court.

Boston police spokesman officer James Kenneally said the foursome carried the spray paint and 15 paint markers in three backpacks and a messenger bag.
When the paint-speckled youths were asked by police if they had spray paint with them, they replied, “Yes,” Kenneally said.
Three of the youth, however, allegedly refused to tell police what tag they used to sign their street art, but one offered up the nom de plume “Self,” Kenneally said.
Police first spotted the teens on foot near Dartmouth Street about 3:40 a.m., but when they approached to question them, the teens allegedly tried walking away.
“Officers stopped them and asked what they were doing out so late on such a cold night,” Kenneally said.
The kids responded, “Just walking,” Kenneally said.
But police suspected otherwise. Kenneally said the Back Bay is one neighborhood of the city that’s been hit particularly hard by graffiti.