The Public Security Police (PSP) have arrested a local man for drawing graffiti on two traffic signal control boxes, PSP spokeswoman Kong Chi Ian said during a regular press conference.
The press conference was held at the Judiciary Police’s (PJ) headquarters in Zape.
Kong identified the suspect as a waiter surnamed Choi in his twenties.
On July 18, according to Kong, Public Security Police officers patrolling the junction of Avenida do Conselheiro Borja (青州大馬路) and Avenida do Comendador Ho Yin (河賢紳士大馬路) in Ilha Verde district discovered a traffic signal control box that had been vandalised with graffiti.
On July 21, another act of vandalism was reported at the junction of Avenida do Almirante Lacerda (提督馬路) and Avenida do Ouvidor Arriaga (雅廉訪大馬路), where a second traffic signal control box was found similarly defaced, Kong said.
Kong said that using footage from CCTV cameras and the government’s Transport Surveillance System, police officers identified Choi as the graffiti suspect. Choi was intercepted and detained last Thursday in Rua da Ressurreição (大三巴右街) near the Ruins of Saint Paul’s
Under interrogation, Choi said that he was a “graffiti artist” and confessed to vandalising multiple public facilities across Macau, including building exteriors, junction boxes, and the two traffic light control box by using markers.
Kong said that Choi was transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP), facing charges of causing aggravated property damage.
This photo taken yesterday afternoon shows the traffic signal control box at the junction of Avenida do Conselheiro Borja and Avenida do Comendador Ho Yin vandalised by a self-proclaimed “graffiti artist”. – Photo: Armindo Neves
