LA's YouTube tagger 'Buket' will serve prison time

The Associated Press
4:02 p.m. September 10, 2009

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles tagger made famous by a video of his work on YouTube has been sentenced to three years and eight months in prison.

The district attorney's office said Thursday that 26-year-old Cyrus Yazdani, who goes by the name "Buket," was on probation after pleading guilty to 32 felony vandalism counts in December.

Yazdani was arrested in May after an online video surfaced of him boldly scrawling his moniker on a bridge above the Hollywood Freeway.
He pleaded no contest to one count of felony vandalism in July and agreed to pay $117,196 in restitution .

Prosecutors say he only paid $400 and recently caused more than $14,000 in damage to bridges over the Los Angeles River near downtown early this year.

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