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     What Graffiti Vandals Did To The Lennon Wall Mural     ____________________________________________________     ____________________________________________________          Detroit Police call 5 charged with spraying    graffiti 'serial vandals'   Jim Lynch  The Detroit News 8/18/2014      Detroit  — Police Chief James Craig is using the recent arrest of five men charged with spraying graffiti on area buildings to send a message to taggers: Don’t do it here.   The suspects were arrested on Aug. 14 just after 3 p.m. when police responded to a complaint of men spray-painting the abandoned Murdock’s Tire Doctor at the corner of Livernois and Burlingame. Each man now faces a felony charge of malicious destruction of property over $1,000. A sixth suspect is being sought.   Craig noted Monday that three of the five suspects are not Detroit residents. If people are not willing to do the crime in their own back yard, he said, they shouldn’t view Detroit as the place to do it.   ...