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This obviously will become a top YouTube download:

Cops on the North Shore are hoping to give attention-starved graffiti suspects a different kind of notoriety — by featuring their mug shots in a DVD video set to heavy metal and reggae tunes.

The video, put together by the 120th Precinct’s anti-graffiti squad, is set to go out to community leaders, politicians and police brass, and may find its way into school assemblies.

It shows before-and-after pictures of graffiti clean-up jobs at hundreds of different spots on the North Shore, as music by AC/DC, Iron Maiden and Green Day blares in the background.

And it’s capped off by mug shot photos of nearly three dozen graffiti suspects, as their alleged tags scroll up the screen, shown to the tune of “Bad Boys” by Inner Circle.

. . .

The DVD’s parade of mug shots ends with a close-up on Russell Farriola, 20, of West Brighton, who cops refer to as the Island’s top graffiti vandal. Using the tag “Aloe,” Farriola waged a one-year graffiti campaign on dozens of spots on the North Shore, cops allege.

Farriola’s lawyer, Jason Leventhal, declined to comment about his client being included in the video, except to say, “It is what it is.”

Posted: June 1st, 2007 | Filed under: Crap Your Pants Say Yeah!, Law & Order, Staten Island
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