Crime & Safety
Man Cuffed After Damaging Montauk Business With Graffiti: Cops
He left his graffiti on a urinal, an oak partition wall, a toilet paper holder, roof shingles, a fish box, and another wall, police say.
MONTAUK, NY — A Massapequa Park man was busted for damaging a Montauk business with graffiti, police said.
According to East Hampton Town Police, on June 10 at 3:30 p.m. on W. Lake Drive in Montauk, Matthew August Maughn, 27, used a paint marker to leave graffiti on several areas including a urinal, an oak partition wall, a toilet paper holder, roof shingles, a fish box, and a separate painted wall of The Clam and Chowder House at Salivar's Dock, causing $1,480 in damage.
Maughn was arrested and charged with third degree criminal mischief, damaging another person's property in an amount greater than $250, a felony, police said.
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Cash bail was set at $500, police said.
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