Police: 3 gang members busted for spraying graffiti on businesses

CANTON, Ga. — A trio of gang members are now behind bars after spraying graffiti on businesses, police said.

Investigators said the men tagged Canton businesses because they had issues with people in the city.

"It is not the first time it has happened, so we were just like, 'Uh no, here we go,'" said Tyler Hill, who builds home design centers out of a building on Railroad Street.

He told Channel 2's Lauren Pozen that all he could do was shake his head when he came to work one morning.

"They had spray-painted some blue spray paint on there, left a couple letters signifying a gang or something like that," Hill said.

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Juan Gallegos, Coty Gallegos and Luis Rocha are accused of what investigators call "gang graffiti."

Surveillance photos from Oct. 21 show one of the men trespassing on the property of Hill's place of work and then driving away in an older Lincoln Town Car.

Three weeks later, the FBI, along with Cartersville police, were able to track the men down. They're now charged with criminal trespass and violation of the Georgia criminal street gang act.

"It is really not worth it because it not only affects the city around it, it also affects those that work there and then we have to take out time out ... to fix other people’s fun," Hill said.

Canton's police chief told Pozen that he hopes the arrests and charges send a message to other gang members that unlawful activity will not be tolerated.

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