Portland sends graffiti vandal to prison — first since city crackdown

A man who dodged incarceration the first time he got caught spray-painting graffiti in Portland was sentenced to 2½ years in prison Monday for continuing to wield the can. Jerry Mijangos — better known by his tag, KASR — is the first graffiti vandal to be sent to prison during Portland’s crackdown on the waves of paint defacing city buildings and interstate overpasses. The now 28-year-old was previously busted on criminal mischief charges in Multnomah County Circuit Court in 2022 and was sentenced to probation the next year. Yet Mijangos’...