After mass eggings on vehicles, earlier this week, some downtown Grass Valley businesses have now been hit by a graffiti tagger. Police Sergeant Clint Lovelady says the first call was reported early Wednesday morning at a business on South Auburn Street…

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Lovelady says four businesses were hit, also including the Mill Street promenade, as well as West Main and Neal Streets. Also, several pieces of city-owned property and some large artist displays…

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It’s the third serial tagging incident to be reported in Grass Valley in the last five years. The previous one, that vandalized around 30 businesses in another part of town, in the summer of 2020, resulted in an arrest of a youth who was identified on surveillance footage. Another serial tagger was arrested in May of 2016.