A youth has been charged following the destruction of two murals in Newtown yesterday, NSW Police say.
About 7pm on Monday 20 November 2017, police received reports of two males defacing a mural on the external wall of a hotel on King Street, Newton.
Following that report, officers patrolling sighted a 16-year-old male damaging a second mural on a wall in Bray Street, Erskineville.
Police from Newtown attended Bray Street, Erskineville where they arrested the 16-year-old male.
He was taken to Newtown Police Station where he was charged with graffiti (x2) and possess graffiti implement.
The teenager will appear at a Children’s Court on Tuesday 16 January 2018.
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